Job description / Role

About the role

– Owns the service desk presales activity working with Presales & CiS/SDL to gain an in-depth understanding of the new business requirements.
– Accountable for identifying the most operationally effective and cost-efficient model that is aligned to future strategy of Service operations; encompassing Incident, Change and Problem
– Advanced Service Design skills (Subject Matter Expert) for operational models, processes and tools.
– Strong negotiation skills to handle high-cost pressure from Sales requiring clear justification for costs calculated. Accountable for accurate estimation of costing and limiting risk to profitability
– Identifies Service Desk training needs to support the new business
– Clearly documents Service Desk bid response and requirements within the agreed timelines. Model must be profitable, efficient and in line with operational policies and procedures.
– Maintains business interfaces globally, by responding to all non-standard business opportunities in a consistent manner.
– Strong capability to detect opportunities for improvement and build cross-functional processes for a seamless Run model
– Defines and manages a solid communication strategy in order to consistently deliver, develop and improve the existing processes, procedures and interlocks according to the business needs
– Serve as Service Operations point of contact for escalations related to scope creep or deviation from agreed support model, workload correction & funding, right complexity assignment for productivity calculations
– Raises any areas of improvement with Presales & CiS interlock and internal team for Bid Support. Support improvement initiatives as required.
– Owns and manages the operational readiness of service desks to support new business, this includes new customized process design and identifying and ensuring tool and training requirements.
– Manages the implementation of customized solutions into the Service Desks and Incident management teams. Tasks to include designing customized processes and procedures and agreeing with all teams involved, ensuring data load in tools, identifying training requirements and facilitating the delivery of training to the desk and incident management teams, signing off on operational readiness.
– Monitors the success of the implementation. If process gaps or issues are identified work with the relevant contacts to resolve
– Leads continuous improvement initiatives, detecting or capturing gaps or challenges from a broad scope of inputs, coming from exchanges with different entities transversally and/or customer feedback. When required, is ready to answer customer’s inquiries directly.
– Lead, coordinate, or support transformation projects by detecting improvement opportunities from local or cross?functional interaction, observation and follow-up of improvement methodologies.
– Arbitrates differences or conflicts based on process and interlock documents to support the implementation of Service Improvement Plans within own domain or cross-functional
– Performs roles such as operations process leader, subject matter expert, action owner, negotiator, approver
– Effectively manages and analyzes to understand the specific challenges faced by the operations and make decision accordingly.

About you
– Able to communicate with all levels of management Strong documentation and presentation skills (Microsoft Office)
– Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills (locally and remotely)
– Self-starter with the ability to work independently and remotely
– Sound judgment and decision making Ability to excel with multiple projects or tasks
– Strong investigative and Problem-Solving skills
– Good Negotiation Skills
– College degree or equivalent

ITIL V4
– Certification in Project management is a plus
– Experience in Service Operations or similar Experience in process design or process improvement
– Project management experience is a plus
– Experience of working in a virtual team Experience of working in a global position
– French is a plus

Department
Global Delivery & Operations

Orange Business manages and integrates the complexity of international communications, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that drive their business. Our extensive experience and knowledge in global communication solutions, together with our understanding of multinational business and local support in 166 countries and territories, ensure that our customers receive a consistent, global solution wherever they do business.

About the Company

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.