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Service Desk Team Lead
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IT Service Desk Team Lead - Microsoft / Windows - Hull
Are you the kind of Service Desk person who's ready to lead, but doesn't want to lose the technical side entirely?
We're working with a business that's restructuring its IT function and creating a brand-new role for it. This isn't a tired, "step into someone else's shoes" position - it's being built from scratch around whoever takes it on.
What you'll be doing
This isn't a purely hands-off management role.
You'll be:
- Leading a team of four 1st and 2nd line Service Desk analysts day to day
- Owning workload allocation, escalations, and making sure incidents get resolved within SLA
- Getting your hands dirty with tickets yourself when the team needs bolstering
- Building out proper incident, problem and request management processes - a lot of this currently lives in people's heads, not in documentation
- Acting as the escalation point for the complex or high-priority stuff
- Reporting service desk performance up to senior leadership, in language they can actually use
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What they care about
Yes, they want solid Service Desk management experience.
But more than that, they want:
- Someone who's genuinely proud of the work they do, not just clocking in
- Someone ready to take a step up - this could be your first lead role, and that's fine
- A person comfortable being hands-on with the team while still owning the bigger picture
If you've been deputising, mentoring informally, or covering for a lead when they're out, that counts. You don't need to already hold the title to be right for this.
The technical bit
A few years' experience in IT Service Desk or IT support, ideally with some team responsibility already
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- Comfortable with ITSM tools and ticketing systems
- Solid grounding in a Microsoft 365 / Azure / Windows environment
- Confident communicator - with your team, and with senior leadership
Why this is worth a look
Most Service Desk Lead roles are about maintaining what's already there.
This one isn't.
- You'll be shaping how the team actually works, not inheriting someone else's system
- You'll report directly into a newly-appointed Director who's heavily investing time in getting this right
- There's a genuine growth story here - the department's been expanding steadily, and this role sits right in the middle of that
If you're ready to lead a team properly, without giving up the technical side entirely, this is one to look at.
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