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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Service Desk Team Leader - **Company:** Indra Group UK & Ireland - **Location:** Stockton-on-Tees, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** IBM Maximo, Knowledge Management, Queue Management Systems, Genesys, Servicenow - **Published:** June 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5e1978c39837ae76 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Time management?, * Proven experience supervising or leading a team in a service desk, help desk or contact centre environment, ideally 24/7. * Strong working knowledge of ITSM tooling (e.g. IBM Maximo, ServiceNow, Remedy or similar) covering incident, request and knowledge management. * Experience with ACD/contact centre platforms and real-time queue management (Genesys experience an advantage). * Solid understanding of ITIL service operations; ITIL 4 Foundation certification (or willingness to achieve it during onboarding). * Track record of managing performance against SLAs/KPIs and leading escalation and major incident communication. * Excellent verbal and written communication and a strong customer service orientation. * Calm, structured decision-making under pressure; experience running shift handovers is an advantage. * Flexibility to work a rotating 24/7 shift pattern, including nights, weekends and Bank Holidays. * Right to work in the United Kingdom. Desirable * Experience in transport, ticketing/revenue collection, utilities or other critical national infrastructure environments. * Experience in service transition or standing up new operations. * Experience coaching teams through training, certification or quality frameworks. ## Description As Service Desk Team Leader you will lead a shift team of Level 1 Service Desk Technicians, owning real-time service performance during your shift. You will manage queues and escalations, run structured shift handovers, coach your team, and act as the first point of escalation for operational and major incidents. You will report to the Service Desk Manager and play a key role in standing up a brand-new 24/7 operation., * Provide day-to-day supervision and leadership of a team of Level 1 Service Desk Technicians on a 24/7 shift rota. * Own real-time queue management across voice and email channels, using the ACD/telephony platform (Genesys Cloud CX) to monitor service levels and re-balance workload. * Act as first escalation point for complex, urgent or sensitive contacts; initiate and coordinate major incident escalation procedures when required. * Run structured shift handovers, ensuring open incidents, ongoing issues and operational alerts are formally transferred between shifts. * Monitor team performance against service level targets (call answering, email handling, incident routing) and drive in-shift corrective action. * Ensure incidents and service requests are correctly logged, classified, prioritised and routed in the ITSM platform (IBM Maximo). * Coach and develop team members; support quality monitoring, ticket quality reviews and the agent certification process. * Champion the knowledge base: ensure articles are used, gaps are reported and content is kept current. * Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, call flows and shift patterns during service mobilisation and beyond. * Produce shift reports and contribute to operational and management reporting. ## Related Videos - [Applying Agile Principles to Incident Management ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/101-applying-agile-principles-to-incident-management) - [Wardley Maps for Software Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/665-wardley-maps-for-software-developers) - [Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/602-unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-it-at-vodafone) - [AI in Production: applied AI & enterprise use cases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100130-ai-in-production-applied-ai-enterprise-use-cases) - [The Design and Evolution of C++](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/526-the-design-and-evolution-of-c) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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