Hybrid Front Office Support Manager

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About the role

  • Front Office Support Manager leading technical support and service delivery for public transport sector. Overseeing L2/L3 support and maintaining performance across applications in a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

  • Provide overall leadership for the field equipment support function, ensuring effective delivery of L2 and L3 support services for all front office applications.
  • Oversee system performance, availability, and service quality, ensuring compliance with contractual KPIs and technical requirements.
  • Act as the senior escalation point for front office–related incidents, major incidents and complex technical issues, coordinating resolution across system teams and engineering groups.
  • Lead high‑level engagement with the client on front office operational performance, incident trends, service improvements, and contract governance.
  • Ensure strong oversight of daily operational activities, including incident management, ticket prioritisation, queue management, RCA production and monitoring of performance metrics.
  • Provide guidance and strategic direction to team leaders, systems engineers, administrators and analysts, ensuring robust processes, clear standards, and effective service delivery.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives, system optimisation, and the implementation of enhancements across the Front Office environment.
  • Maintain alignment with adjacent service functions (service desk, maintenance teams, engineering, and performance assurance) to ensure fully integrated service delivery.
  • Coordinate resource planning, capacity management and forecasting with the team leader to ensure readiness and operational efficiency.
  • Provide regular reporting to senior management, including performance dashboards, trends analysis, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in engineering, IT, computer science, telecommunications, or a related discipline.
  • Strong experience leading technical support, IT operations, or application support teams (L2/L3), ideally within transport, ticketing or mission‑critical environments.
  • Deep understanding of Front Office systems, field devices or distributed operational technology.
  • Experience managing complex incident lifecycles, including Major Incident management, RCA, and performance reporting.
  • Proven leadership experience managing multi‑disciplinary technical teams.
  • Strong operational governance skills, including KPIs, SLAs, service performance and continuous improvement.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities, especially in customer‑facing roles.
  • Ability to operate confidently in contractually complex, high‑assurance environments.
  • Strong analytical and decision‑making abilities.
  • Desirable Experience: Experience with fare collection systems, transport technology or revenue device management.
  • Knowledge of incident management tooling, ticketing systems and monitoring platforms.
  • Understanding of software and hardware diagnostic processes.
  • Experience contributing to system upgrades, operational improvements or change initiatives.

Benefits

  • Holidays: 25 days per annum + 8 days bank holidays (options to buy/sell days)
  • 35 hour working week
  • Pension – 4% employee and 4% employer
  • Private medical insurance (including dental & optical)
  • Life assurance
  • Income protection
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Flexible/remote working options
  • Charitable initiatives
  • Social events (formal & informal)
  • Learning and development programs
  • Innovative & collaborative work environment

Job title

Front Office Support Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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