[Hiring] Manager, Engineering, Managed Services @CDW

Role Description

The Managed Services Engineering Manager demonstrates focus in leading a specific Managed Services Engineering Team to achieve financial, operations, customer satisfaction and coworker targets. The person in this role is responsible for delivery of one or more services and additionally serves as the product owner for those services. The role includes but is not limited to:

• Understand and align the engineering team to ensure overall Services strategy is implemented through Services teams.
• Build and maintain key relationships with product development, professional services and sales.
• Execute on customer service level agreements by utilizing our operational framework and standard operating procedures to meet or exceed overall customer satisfaction.
• Continuous Service Improvement: includes both process and staff management, using both objective and subjective methods.
• Allocate engineering resources to provide technical services to maintain, support, and optimize the specific technology areas assigned.
• Establish and cultivate a solid working relationship with customers through sales opportunities, quarterly reviews, and especially during support issues.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key partner representatives (Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, VMWare, etc.).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of relevant experience OR 9 years of related consulting or IT services delivery experience.
• Previous consulting leadership experience required.
• Process management and improvement.
• Experience in ITIL.
• Experience managing AIX, Linux and Unix environments, including enterprise operating systems, virtualization, clustering, storage integration and related tools.
• Understanding of AIX, Linux and Unix capacity planning, performance tuning, patching, high availability and workload automation.
• Ability to lead teams; gain consensus.
• Ability to communicate effectively and concise both orally and written using a variety of styles and techniques appropriate to the audience.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities simultaneously and adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines.
• Proven ability to proactively collaborate and build relationships, take initiative, and creatively problem solve.
• Ability to identify and creatively resolve client, project and people issues.
• Proven negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, HP, or Dell products and services.
• Experience working with vendors and business partners.
• Ability to lead and manage to ensure attainment of critical results.
• Ability to compute, analyze and interpret complex statistical data for reporting purposes and/or to develop forecasts.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor in a strategic partnership.
• Able and willing to travel up to 25% or as needed to other CDW locations, meetings or client sites.
• Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize.
• Experience managing IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Solaris and HP-UX, is a plus.

Requirements

• Customer Satisfaction: Understand customer environments and business needs.
• Meet periodically with customers through sales opportunities, quarterly reviews, and especially during support issues.
• Track, monitor and report Customer Satisfaction Performance Measures, including Customer Satisfaction Surveys.
• Leadership and Management: Managing workload; prioritizing and assigning resources.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for the collaboration of strategic and tactical plans for the current and future development of the technologies assigned to their specific technology.
• Time reporting and related analysis.
• Hiring staff.
• Building and motivating effective teams.
• Delegating responsibilities to appropriate team members.
• Performance management: Consistent feedback, both positive and negative Assessment, both subjective and objective Coaching/mentoring Individual Development Planning (career path, improvement opportunities, training).
• Maintaining the On-call schedule.
• Work closely with peers to achieve company, department and personal goals.
• Willing to take calculated risks to meet customer needs and department goals.
• Process Management: Oversee the development, maintenance, and performance of the problem, change and work order processes.
• Deliver Operational Framework and Standard Operating Procedures to staff and ensure adherence through Quality Assurance process.
• Review Operational Framework and Standard Operating Procedures on an on-going basis to identify process and organizational structure gaps.
• Continuous Service Improvement utilizing using key metrics.
• Communication: Regular staff interaction, both written and face-to-face.
• Customer interaction, both written and face-to-face.
• Work collaboratively with other groups and managers to successfully manage customer expectations and environments.
• Financial: Manage operational costs, plan, and budget.

Benefits

• Pay range: $126,500 - $177,100 depending on experience and skill set.
• Annual bonus target of 20% subject to terms and conditions of plan.
• Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
• Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials.