Services Director

The Role:

A Director COE has primary accountability for the successful delivery of services associated with ION’s Center of Excellence (CoE) program. The Director CoE is responsible for business development for new and existing customers, defining the services to be provided under the CoE program, ensures quality delivery, and act as the primary contact for customers escalations.

This is a client facing role, where the Director CoE would be interacting with designated client stakeholders to review overall service quality. This position may require some travel.

Key Responsibilities

• Define CoE scope and strategy for delivery to meet customers’ business requirements
• Responsible for driving customer satisfaction through focus on accountability and quality, including regular customer account reviews
• Manage CoE resource and revenue to the agreed budget, including revenue forecasting and impact analysis
• Point of contact for customer escalation issues
• Improve service maturity of CoE business line to increase efficiency. Establish methodologies and processes to ensure quality, consistency, repeatability, and efficiency in solution delivery
• Expand CoE business line financial contributions. Work with Sales and Account Management to develop a CoE program tailored to the customers’ requirements
• Demonstrate reliability in execution of quality CoE services and demonstrate success in delivery of contracted services
• Own CoE engagements in ION’s resource management system (Kimble), update resource demand profiles and support resource owners with resource allocation
• Manage resource demand, attend staffing calls in respective areas and follow escalation process
• Provide regular reporting on CoE Service utilization and margin by customer and service type
• Increase awareness and value recognition of CoE service to develop pipeline and customer references
• Line Management for CoE Delivery Managers within business vertical
• Work with Senior Director or Vice President on the team’s growth strategy
• Work with Senior Director or Vice President to prioritize team’s tasks and ensures balance across the team
• Contribute to employee performance appraisals for personnel assigned to CoE engagements throughout the calendar year 
• Responsible for managing large/complex COE programs or strategic engagements for key clients 

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field
• Excellent client-facing/influencing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a project team structure
• Ability to work onsite at client locations
• Ability to manage portfolio of COE engagements at any given time
• Proven leadership skills with teams of five or more professionals
• 10+ years of experience with comprehensive life cycles at ION or other software, consulting, or systems integration firm with delivery responsibility to client organizations
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience 

About us

We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.

• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.

ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe,

Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.

ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.

ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.