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Head of Application Support @ Michael Page Portugal

Description

  • Demonstrates knowledge of best practices and procedures of create global support organization
  • Create, manages, and delivers to SLA's and KPI's for a global support organization

Client Details

Pharma company.

Description

  • Provides governance and ownership of internal and external application Support Services providers in a Managed Services model
  • Documents each application and produces a maintenance plan to ensure high availability and planned change control.
  • Ensures applications have agreed disaster recovery, data backup, and archiving plans.
  • Supports the development of the appropriate service culture within the internal and external delivery teams.
  • Perform root cause analysis and recommend corrective and preventive actions
  • Measure, support and maintain health of applications.
  • Take ownership and deliver high quality solutions for issues and requests.
  • Communicate solutions effectively to technical and non-technical teams.
  • Define and comply with standard processes when implementing solutions.
  • Manage budgets for ongoing operational expense and projects
  • Manage people for programs or projects involving department or cross-functional teams

Profile

  • Bachelor's in computer science, engineering, or other relatable majors
  • 10+ years' experience related to support for software products and services
  • 7 + years progressive managerial/leadership experience
  • Vendor and Contract management
  • Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; includes the ability to communicate clearly and confidently, to different audiences simultaneously, such as business, technical, operations, senior management, etc
  • Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
  • Deal with tense situations with ease
  • Entrepreneurial with a winning attitude and a hunger for success
  • English: fluent

Job Offer

Career progression.

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