Hybrid Technical Support Manager

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About the role

  • Manage the Support Team: Responsible for leading a team of +8 personnel, to deliver exceptional service to i6 customers, and ensure the team achieve their targets and goals.
  • Hands-On Leadership: Manage, coach, and work alongside service desk analysts; handle escalations personally when necessary to maintain service quality.
  • Operational Support Excellence: Oversee the triage, prioritization, and resolution of incidents and service requests from customers engaged in live refuelling operations.
  • KPIs & SLAs: Define, monitor, and report on service desk KPIs (first-response time, resolution time, customer satisfaction, backlog, etc.) to ensure targets are met or exceeded.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the main support interface to Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success—feeding back operational issues, customer pain points, and feature requests to drive continuous improvement.
  • Knowledge Management: Build and maintain an internal and customer-facing knowledge base, including refuelling-specific workflows, FAQs, and troubleshooting guides to speed resolution via internal support portal.
  • Customer Communication: Ensure clear, timely communication with customers regarding incidents, planned maintenance, product updates, and new features.
  • Process & Tooling Improvement: Implement best-practice workflows (ITIL-aligned where appropriate) and optimise the use of service desk tools (Jira Service Management).
  • Training & Readiness: Partner with Customer Success to ensure customers are trained on new features and support staff are briefed on upcoming changes.
  • Compliance & Safety: Maintain awareness of employee safety and compliance requirements relevant to home working employees and ensure support practices align with them.
  • Travel: There may be a requirement to travel to i6 Head office as required.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years’ experience managing a service desk or technical support team in a SaaS or operationally critical environment
  • Familiarity with the aviation industry is highly preferred.
  • Track record of setting, monitoring, and achieving service desk KPIs.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams.
  • Hands-on expertise with service desk and incident management tools.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills under time pressure.
  • ITIL Foundation or similar certification is desirable.

Benefits

  • 5% pension contribution
  • 25 days holiday per annum in addition to UK bank holidays; with the option to buy/sell an additional 5 days per year, and your Birthday Day off
  • Private health insurance and health care cash plan
  • Quarterly Team Events
  • Remote first working

Job title

Technical Support Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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