Junior Service Manager
Anaplan
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.
Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.
Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.
Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!
Anaplan has an opportunity for a self-motivated Junior Service Manager to join a cross-functional engineering team in our York office. This team is pivotal in supporting the platforms used by hundreds of software engineers and thousands of customers.
Working in the Global Product & Technology Organization, which supports the functions of Software Development, Ops, Security, and more, you will be streamlining the delivery of the Anaplan platform that helps top-flight companies around the world make better-informed plans and decisions every day. Anaplan is a business-critical, tier-one system that must be available with low latency despite complexity and scale.
The Platform Service Management team defines and supports the tools and processes for platform stability and resilience to promote operational excellence. The team's skills include supporting and developing ITIL and ITSM procedures; incident and problem management, service improvement plans, analysis of operational data, and liaising with both technical teams, customer success departments, and customers. We have unparalleled access to our users – they are our colleagues!
You will join a team of individuals who embrace and respect diverse perspectives, are not afraid to push boundaries, implement innovative ideas, and are passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed.
Technologies you will work with: Atlassian products (Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Status Page, Confluence), PagerDuty, Incident.io, Office365 suite (SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive). We also support SaaS and cloud-based technologies, Grafana, Incident Management Tooling, and Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs).
This is a hybrid work role with after-hours on-call requirements. You will be required to be in the York office a minimum of 2 days a week. You will be required to participate in a 24/7 Incident Manager on-call rotation.
Your Impact
- Support the assessment and triage of technical events impacting the Anaplan platform and customers
- Support incident communications per documented procedures
- Support ongoing incident lifecycle reporting to incident partners as incident and outage investigation and mitigation actions evolve in real time
- Mitigate and contain risk to the business by supporting the restoration of service to customers ASAP
- Support the documenting and reporting on incident-related details
- Participate in post-incident reviews (PIR) for all major incidents
- Support the investigation into root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents
- Support reporting dashboards & generate incident & outage reports for data/trend analytics
- Support the documentation of incident-response reports in compliance with customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Support the analysis of service data, understand data trends, present findings, and offer improvements and resolutions to system issues.
- Support the proactive detection and prevention of future problems/incidents and initiate the Problem Management process to allow quicker diagnosis and resolution
Your Qualifications
- Interest and familiarity with ITSM support concepts.
- Basic experience in triaging problems of varied scope
- Familiarity and ability in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining restoration solutions (triage skills).
- Generates constructive input, ideas, and solutions to both individual and team challenges
- Operates with a customer-centric approach
- Able to collaborate in a globally and culturally diverse environment
- 1 year of experience in a technology support environment or equivalent subject
- Familiar with standard IT support principles and framework
- Technical Degree or hold relevant IT support experience
- Any ITIL certifications are a plus.
- MIM Professional Level 1 or similar Qualifications a plus.
- Incident Management, Problem Management & Change Management experience a plus.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
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