- Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Job Profile Summary
Responsible for managing a Services Delivery group for North America and monitor EMEA and APAC work. Manages overall
Supplier/Supplier/Vendor
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure services are delivered within agreed-upon SLAs and quality standards.
- Service Delivery Oversight
- Analyze existing service delivery processes, identify areas for improvement, and implement solutions to optimize efficiency, reduce incidents, and enhance stakeholder satisfaction.
- Process Improvement
- Lead and manage IT service-related projects, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders to define scope, timelines and resource requirements
- Project Management
- Proactively lead the resolution of major incidents, coordinate with resolution teams, and drive root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
- Incident and Problem Management
- Collaborate with third-party vendors to ensure service quality, contract adherence, and effective integration with internal systems.
- Vendor Management
- Build and maintain relationships with customers and stakeholders, communicate project progress, service updates, and address escalations.
- Stakeholder Communication
- Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure IT service delivery success, identify trends, and report to management.
- Performance Reporting
- Mentor, coach, and develop a team of IT service delivery professionals, promoting a culture of customer focus and continuous learning.
- Team Development
- Monitor coordination between teams (Functional/ Tower/ Geographies/ Others). Resolve team members' issues with internal or external stakeholders and escalate as necessary.
- Establish and maintain strategic focus on globalization initiatives and activities for achieving organizational and business objectives, in close coordination with Northern Trust's Executive management. Develop globalization management capabilities.
- Ensure required process synergies/ integration between Applications, Infrastructure, Testing, and Helpdesk.
- Monitor Supplier/Vendor services and performance vs target. Track and review reports to be submitted by Supplier/Vendors and ensure adherence to requirement and timeline.
- Facilitate and guide achievement of NT's cost saving target from managed services initiative.
- Ensure institutionalization of services, guidelines and processes.
- Work with Financial Manager on invoicing processes and issues work with Performance & Risk Manager on service levels management, risk management issues and initiatives.
- In charge of reporting & MIS governance dashboard.
- Work closely with Procurement Category Manager on supplier and sourcing activities by working on issue resolution activities such as receiving, recording, and reviewing reported issues (priority, resolution date, owner, etc.). Identify relevant stakeholders /roles to be involved in issue resolution. Resolve issue at appropriate level as applicable and escalate issue as required, based on impact and urgency. Track and report until closure.
- Coordinate and schedule Steering Committee and Executive Council meetings and prepare and present reports for those meetings.
- Facilitate process audit pertaining to delivery and quality of service, as agreed. Ensure customer satisfaction initiatives are met.
- Support periodic internal communication on outsourcing initiatives and performance, as appropriate and support and participate actively in demand forecasting and planning.
- Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise.
- Makes staffing decisions, manages expenses and salary review process for the division
- Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 10 years of experience within IT service delivery, including experience leading teams
- ITIL certification or similar service management credentials a plus
- Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, and service delivery concepts.
- Working knowledge of Service Now, ADO Boards and Agile Methodologies
- Excellent project management and problem-solving skills
- Experience in supplier/vendor relationship
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Passionate about customer service and driven by continuous improvement
- Experience in IT services governance models in a multi shore, multi supplier/vendor set up is preferred
- Highly flexible and adaptable to change
- Knowledge and experience of one of the governance tools such as Enighta, Syrian or similar
- Understand relevant provisions in the MSA, Schedules and SOWs
Additional Considerations
- In dept knowledge of the Asset Servicing or Financial Services industry is a plus
- Industry-Specific Skills
- Leadership, organizational skills, teamwork, and adaptability, are key to this role. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
- Soft Skills
Working with Us
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
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We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.