Head of Software Support
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This is a strategic level senior leadership role with responsibility for multiple support teams across healthcare, social care, education, and oncology systems. You will bring clarity, structure, and direction, ensuring consistent ways of working and a strong focus on customer experience. You will balance operational excellence with service strategy, owning performance against key metrics and leading improvements that have lasting impact.
What you will be doing
- Lead multi-disciplinary support teams, building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Own service performance including SLAs, response and resolution times, customer satisfaction, and backlog health
- Take responsibility for major incidents, ensuring timely resolution, clear communication, and measurable follow-up actions
- Strengthen incident, problem, and change management processes
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to resolve issues and prevent recurrence
- Drive improvements in knowledge management and self-service
- Act as a senior point of escalation for customers and internal stakeholders
- Use data and insight to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement including those involving AI
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience across software or application support teams
- Strong understanding of IT service management principles
- Experience managing complex incidents and customer environments
- Confidence working with data, KPIs, and service reporting
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- A continuous improvement mindset and the ability to lead through change
- Someone who can be part of a strong management team and contribute ideas
Experience in healthcare, social care, education, or other regulated sectors is highly beneficial.
About the company
At System C, we build technology that helps health, social care, and education organisations deliver better outcomes. We are now looking for a Head of Software Support to lead our Support and Success function, ensuring our customers receive reliable, high-quality service every day.
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