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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Global professional services: assurance, tax, consulting

Senior IT Service Manager - Information Technology Service Management

IT OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeUtrecht, NetherlandsNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed higher professional or university-level education.
  • At least 5 years of experience in a comparable tactical, coordinating, or service management role.
  • Extensive experience with tactical governance and directing organization-wide IT services.
  • Strong stakeholder-management and change-management skills, with demonstrated experience building support for sustainable improvements.
  • Experience delivering organization-wide improvements in governance, service delivery, and continuous improvement.
  • Sound knowledge of ITIL and service-management principles.
  • Fluency in spoken and written Dutch and English.
  • Knowledge of SAFe, Agile, DevOps, or comparable delivery frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Provide tactical governance for IT services, connecting stakeholders, internal teams, external suppliers, and IT teams.
  • Give tactical direction to end-to-end service delivery and connect business demand, service ownership, IT delivery, Run, Change, and suppliers.
  • Translate strategy into effective governance, service reviews, clear accountabilities, and standardized ways of working.
  • Initiate and lead improvements, directing priorities, ownership, progress, and measurable outcomes.
  • Connect and influence stakeholders within and outside ITS.
  • Embed operational excellence and compliance by design by incorporating risks, controls, and audit requirements into services and change.
  • Connect Run and Change, ensuring new and changed services are transferred in a manageable, compliant, and sustainable way.
  • Contribute to Application Lifecycle Management and support decisions about the application landscape throughout its lifecycle.
  • Use management information, trends, and structural improvement opportunities to drive concrete actions and decisions on performance and quality.
  • Direct suppliers and service-chain dependencies, monitoring agreements, performance, and escalations.
  • Provide subject-matter direction to two planned Service Manager hires and support their development toward greater independence and seniority.
  • Build the Service Management capability and maturity of IT service delivery within PwC Netherlands.
  • Use technology such as AI tools and contribute to knowledge sharing and coaching.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Application Lifecycle Management and lifecycle decision-making.
  • Experience with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow.
  • Experience in an international organization and cross-border collaboration.
  • Relevant ITIL certifications, such as ITIL 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan & Improve or High Velocity IT.
  • A relevant SAFe or Scrum certification.

About the Company

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Global professional services: assurance, tax, consulting

PwC provides assurance (audit), tax, legal services, consulting and deals advisory to organisations worldwide. It uses multidisciplinary teams across accounting, advisory, technology and industry, delivered through a global network of locally established firms that collaborate with technology partners to offer AI, cloud, managed services and digital trust. PwC differentiates itself with an integrated, global-local service model and technology-enabled offerings that address complex client needs across risk, transformation, reporting and sustainability. Its goal is to help clients improve governance, efficiency and value by supporting reporting accuracy, business transformation, risk management and sustainable practices.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
$3.3M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1989

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