Service Delivery Manager (DFS)
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · DevOps
In short
The Offshore Service Delivery Manager (OSDM) in Bengaluru, India, is responsible for end-to-end IT service delivery, meeting SLAs, OLAs, and quality standards. This role involves managing offshore teams, customer expectations, finances, and driving continuous improvement initiatives within a global delivery model.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day offshore service delivery across agreed service scope (Run/BAU and minor enhancements).
- Ensure SLAs, KPIs, and service levels are consistently met or exceeded.
- Lead Major Incident, Problem, and Change management activities from offshore.
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and preventive actions to improve service stability.
- Ensure adherence to ITIL-aligned processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Request).
- Act as the main offshore escalation point for service delivery issues.
- Participate in operational, tactical, and service review meetings with onsite and customer stakeholders.
- Provide accurate and timely service reports (SLA dashboards, incident trends, capacity, availability).
- Manage customer expectations and ensure effective communication across geographies.
- Manage offshore cost, productivity, and utilization in line with budget.
- Track effort, demand variability, and ensure delivery efficiency.
- Identify and flag out-of-scope work, supporting commercial discussions with onsite leads.
- Lead, mentor, and develop offshore delivery teams across multiple service lines or technologies.
- Ensure adequate staffing, skill coverage, onboarding, and knowledge management.
- Drive performance management, training plans, and succession planning.
- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Identify automation, standardization, and process improvement opportunities.
- Drive shift-left and operational excellence initiatives.
- Support transitions, transformations, and service ramp-ups from offshore.
- Leverage data and metrics to improve service quality and cost efficiency.
- Identify delivery risks and implement mitigation plans.
- Ensure compliance with contractual, audit, information security, and customer policies.
- Support internal and customer audits from offshore delivery perspective.
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of overall IT experience with significant exposure to managed services / service delivery.
- 5+ years in a Service Delivery Manager / Operations Manager role.
- Strong experience working in a global delivery model (offshore–onsite).
- Experience managing large offshore teams and multi-vendor environments.
- Service Delivery
- SLAs and KPIs Management
- Manage customer expectations and ensure effective communication across geographies.
Benefits
- Supercharge your potential at HCLTech.
- Find your career at HCLTech.
- Find your spark at HCLTech.
- HCLTech puts its people first.
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