Operations Director

**Responsibilities**:

- Leading and managing the Systems and Services Operations Tier 2 technical support team responsible for the Mobile VAS services.
- Responsible for delivering and meeting the service performance KPI for Mobile VAS services to comply with regulatory QOS requirement and customers SLA.
- Support Tier 1 Integrated Network Operation Centre (7 x 24) on Incident Management and Service Recovery in accordance with Singtel Networks Incident Management framework and Crisis Management Handbook for Mobile VAS services.
- Responsible for Service Transition to support rollout of new systems/platforms to deliver new services or capabilities, such that these new rollouts meet agreed project-KPIs in areas of timeline, service-quality and service-feature deliverables. This includes tender technical-specs definitions, tender evaluations, technical system-rollouts and verifications followed by system commissioning and operations.
- Support CustCare to investigate/resolve customer complaints on service quality and service difficulties in the Mobile Value Added Services platforms.
- Lead in the Incident Management and Service Recovery during service difficulties/outages to restore services in the most time-effective manner and minimize impact to customers.
- Accountable for Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) process by using methods from quality management to learn from past successes and failures to improve service reliability, service quality, SLA and customer experience, and also review/improve the Playbook for Incident Analysis and Response to manage service degradation, outages or denial of service. Participate in Networks Operation Excellence Forum to lead Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives to reduce fault rate and trouble tickets.
- Support Network Incident/Crisis Management Team (IMT/CMT) as recovery team during Major Network Crisis (Severity Level 2 and higher)
- Implement Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) including creating Business Continuity Plans and Procedures, Risk Assessment (RA), Business Impact Analysis (BIA), conduct yearly audit for BCMS compliance and certification.
- Accountable for ensuring SSO meets Capex/Opex budget and Newton Cost Transformation objectives whilst meeting the desire Service Level Agreement (SLA) and cost optimization for Technical Support Agreement (TSA).
- Manage a cluster of maintenance projects
- Define and lead the implementation of support services
- Able to coach Support Engineer to provide L1, L2 and L3 support to assess, classify, prioritise and diagnose issues in a timely and collaborative manner within the team
- Identify and review maintenance processes to maintain the service level
- Define, automate and improve system monitoring activities to ensure continuity of service
- Establish performance metric for service level measurement and dashboard reporting
- Maintain a good knowledge base for L1 screening prior to L2 escalation
- Coach team on best practices in root casual and defect trend analysis for continuous improvement
- Define and implement preventive measures to achieve proactive maintenance
- Manage the release management process
- Reporting to management on the operational status across the cluster of maintenance projects
- Involve in capacity management of the team resources
- Able to Invest atleast 45% of the total investment