IHG

Senior Specialist Technical Support IT Services

IHG$88K — $105K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
  • 7+ years of progressive, relevant experience
  • Expert knowledge of relevant IT systems
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for diverse organizational levels
  • Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and time management skills
  • Deep understanding of project management principles
  • Proficient problem-solving skills with practical application

Responsibilities

  • Assist customers with complex hardware and software issues
  • Review data and make recommendations for process improvements
  • Develop documentation to support process implementation
  • Monitor trends for proactive problem management
  • Provide solutions requiring third-party vendor involvement
  • Ensure compliance with SOPs for incident resolution
  • Lead efforts on business implications of support process improvements

Benefits

  • Supportive team environment with seasoned professionals
  • Opportunities to provide significant input into process improvements
  • Potential for professional growth within IHG
  • Engagement with senior leadership and external stakeholders
  • Ability to impact technology platform solutions directly
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Senior Specialist Technical Support IT Services is a seasoned team member of professional employees who are responsible for supporting executive leaders and providing excellent customer support, troubleshooting and complex issue resolution across multiple IHG technology platforms.

The Senior Specialist Technical Support IT Services exercises appropriate solutioning within defined SLAs, standards and guidelines while requiring limited supervision.

Your Day to Day
  • Assisting customers with complex hardware and software selection, procurement, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting. This includes the release of software updates, service packs, security patches and antivirus signatures to managed devices.
  • Reviews trend data, metrics and presentations on customer support issues and makes recommendation on process improvements to the technology leadership team.
  • Develops support documentation (e.g. work aids, process descriptions, checklists, templates and guides) to assist with process implementation, adoption and sustained maintenance.
  • Monitors trend capacity and availability to help facilitate proactive Problem Management.
  • Provides the solutioning for technology related issues requiring vendors and 3rd party involvement
  • Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for incident resolution Service Request fulfillment are created and embedded in the team.
  • Leads work efforts regarding reviewing business implications of recommended customer support process improvements.
  • Provides expertise to root cause analysis for customer support improvement opportunities


What We Need From You
  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
  • Typically, a minimum of 7+years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
  • Expert knowledge of supported systems within respective area.
  • Expert verbal and written skill communicating with diverse work teams within all levels of an organization to include senior-level management in addition to external stakeholders.
  • Expert analytical thinking, planning, organizational, investigation, and time management skills to include summarizing information and clearly identifying key elements, patterns, results or relationships
  • Expert understanding of project management principles and processes.
  • Expert reasoning capability. Ability to solve practical problems while dealing with a variety of concrete variables during situations in which only limited standardization exists.
  • Understanding of implications of business requirements on the application(s) with the ability to advise stakeholders and key business partners
  • Awareness and knowledge of market trends, business strategies and technology and their interrelationships. Technical writing skills are a plus. Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality


Travel - limited 10%

Location - This role is in-office work structure is an expectation of five (5) days a week in the ATLANTA office. This expectation may be adjusted with the changing needs of the business.

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About IHG

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is a British multinational hospitality company that operates a portfolio of hotel brands, including InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, and Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants. The company was founded in 2003 as a result of the merger between British hotel company Six Continents and the hotel and restaurant business of the American conglomerate Bass. IHG is headquartered in Denham, England, and has operations in more than 100 countries. The company's brands cater to a range of travelers, from budget-conscious to luxury-seeking.
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