Senior Service Analyst

Job Purpose

The Senior Service Analyst is accountable to improve the business/end user experience with a forward-looking mindset and spirit of continuous improvement. This includes:

• Delivering business value by maximizing financial investment and the sustainability of the application
• Managing through the Managed Service Providers to quality outcomes
• Ensuring alignment with cross functional teams and external parties

Responsibilities

• Demand and release change prioritization with plan build as required. Provides input and feedback into the Change, Release and Deployment processes and schedules ensuring minimal impact and downtime of changes to the business
• Monitor and Approve Change Records for ACoE Owned Changes. Accountable for Demand Approval - ensures right change, right change type, clear & complete scope/requirements
• Provide budgetary impact of proposed changes to plan organization and ensure transfer of budget and updates portfolio tracker
• Accountable for ensuring that the Service Transition processes are fully executed. Approve readiness for support transition and serves as escalation point for any delays in service transition
• Ensure Application Runbook is Operationally Ready (current, accurate, comprehensive).
• Oversight of the MSP decommission activities, post data archival
• Primary point of accountability with fulfillment of Audit Artifact Service Requests. Coordinates with internal compliance team for internal compliance driven audit requests. Monitors MSP execution of Audit process and procedures.  Ensures timely and accurate delivery of external compliance driven audit artifacts
• Govern the application recertification process occurs as scheduled. Provide audit results as needed
• Notify MSP of critical business activities. Coordinate planned outages for ACoE driven activities. Ensure the communication and advise on risk for Non-ACoE driven activities that require an outage
• Evaluates and Approves the Service Providers reported performance trends and the process improvement recommendations to identify areas where preventative maintenance might be performed to improve Applications performance and efficiency. Reviewing ticket patterns and identifying opportunities that were presented by their MSP. Approves SLA exception breaches.
• Responsible for reviewing the service provider Service Level Agreements and participating in any action plans that are required to address any deviations and/or improvement opportunities with the supplier. Helps manage the relationship with vendors to ensure superior service delivery for all application maintenance and support activities
• Performs summary daily reviews of prior days ticket activity: queue levels, processing efficiency, backlogs, aging levels along with prior day Incidents and adjusts priorities as needed to ensure that ticket processing and the Problem Management engines are performing within expected operational parameters.  Acting approver for SLA exception breaches
• Serves as primary AbbVie contact point and first level of escalation for Incidents and Problems., including activities that require multiple teams to solution. Assists, when needed, with the prioritization and escalation of system recovery issues with Cross-functional, Build and Infrastructure teams
• Participate P1- P2 MIM bridge and on call rotation.  Confirms business impact and approves all system stop/starts and down/ups
• Approve On-boarding requests for MSP resources that require access and training
• Through the MSP, maximize the Application eco-system opportunities: performance, financials, usage, maintainability and sustainability, etc.
• Serves as escalation point for any delays in service transition
• Escalation support for any activity that requires multiple teams to solution
• Interact with Plan and Build for new projects and services and disaster recovery. Coordinate and meet with business stakeholders aligned with Plan BRM (or equivalent) resource
• Act as a liaison for SOP Guidance/Clarifications, etc. to MSP, ensure adherence and continuous improvement
• Drive Customer Satisfaction & follow up to survey responses
• Ensuring the communication plans are executed
• Assists MSPs in ensuring that all the user access to IT systems are properly controlled and authenticated and segregation of duties are maintained
• Problem Management reviews and approvals, Reviews RCAs for quality & appropriateness
• Present Service Level Agreements and cost metrics to the Technology Domains following the pre-defined Governance structure. Present continuous improvement plans and vendor performance metrics

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Computer Engineering or 5 years of combined experience in Information Technology.
• Proven experience with Application outsourcing and terminology such as Minor Enhancements, ARC’s/RRC’s, Service Level Management and Vendor Management.
• Prior experience with systematically and logically interpreting data, including analyzing trends, solving complex problems, and presenting recommendations to management. 
• Prior experience with IT change control methodologies
• Experience executing an existing processes and ability to determine when exceptions to a process should be allowed.
• Experience with managing and working with ITIL framework, processes, functions and techniques; leveraging the entire suite of ITSM modules/tools.  Must possess the ability to generate and analyze measurements to monitor performance and outcomes. 

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Knowledge of  ETL tools, structured query language (SQL),Snowflake  platform
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
• Strong problem resolution skills.
• Proven experience with ITIL, specifically Incident and Problem management as well as Continuous Improvement Planning (CIP), Cost Optimization, Demand and Release and Deployment Management.
• ITIL Foundation Certification.
• ITIL Intermediate Certification in Service Operations.
• Experience developing and implementing Operating Level Agreements (OLA’s).
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams towards task completion.
• Experience with Service Operation

At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. If you would like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan or policy statement, please email CorpJat_ABV@abbvie.com.