Service Delivery Manager (Commerce)

at  VML

WHO WE ARE:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

IF YOU KNOW SOME OF THIS, EVEN BETTER:

• Linux, Unix, Windows operating systems
• Adobe, HCL, SAP, Salesforce commerce platforms
• CQ5, Bootstrap, SASS, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, Java, J2EE, MySQL, Maven, SPRING MVC, REST web services
• Hosted environments
• Exposure to software development environments
• Exposure to Java/J2EE and web technologies

AT VML ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.
In our Lisbon or Porto office, you’ll join a team of other specialists who are always ready to help each other. The team is part of our Enterprise Solutions network and works in coordination with our Local and EMEA client leads.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Co-ordinate & facilitate the contracted eCommerce service to one or more customers
• Ensure that escalations and communications are managed in line with documented contract standards
• Develop and maintain good customer relationships with the support of the Account Manager.
• To be primary point of contact for the customer and ensure that the contracted scope of service is delivered to contracted SLA’s and that levels of customers satisfaction remain high
• Ensure all agreed SLAs are met for incidents & service requests
• Develop and maintain a productive and close working relationship with relevant Account Executives
• Build appropriate working relationships with any third party’s involved in the delivery of in scope production services to the customer
• Produce weekly and monthly service reports for customers against the agreed targets, SLA’s, KPI’s, to agreed deadlines together with analysis and interpretation of service trends and recommendations to enable service improvements and cost saving opportunities
• Undertake analysis and interpretation of service trends to identify recommendations for service improvements and cost saving opportunities
• Conduct regular service reviews on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Liaise with customers to agree problem priorities and delivery
• Ensure changes, releases, patches or upgrades to customer production environments are managed effectively and in a timely manner through the change & release management process
• Ensure any interruptions to the live service are resolved quickly and that the underlying problem is identified and removed using Problem and Change Management processes
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis for all Severity 1 incidents, identifying & recommending opportunities for service improvement using Continuous Sustainable Improvement Plan (CSIP)
• Ensure Support Activities managed within contracted Support Budget
• Work with support and development teams to ensure problem fixes are planned into releases and delivered