IT&D Manager, Service Management - AI Ops / Automation

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In IT and D, you’ll be a force for good, whether you’re championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you’ll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you’re willing to bring your ideas to the table, you’ll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You’ll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you’ll keep learning exciting new approaches.

About The Role As the IT&D Manager – Service Management (AIOps & Automation), you will act as the global Process Owner for AIOps and Automation within a SIAM (Service Integration and Management) model.

You will be accountable for driving the end-to-end transformation of IT Operations towards an AIOps-enabled operating model, ensuring governance, value realisation, and adoption across IT&D and its partner ecosystem.

You will own the AIOps governance forum, responsible for qualifying, prioritising, and tracking automation and AIOps initiatives, ensuring measurable business outcomes and operational efficiency improvements.

This role is focused on process ownership, governance, and transformation leadership.

Your responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

AIOps & Automation Process Ownership

• Define and own the end-to-end AIOps and Automation operating model across IT Operations
• Establish policies, standards, and frameworks for AIOps adoption and governance
• Define process flows across all stages of AIOps journey (data ingestion → correlation → prediction → automation → self-healing)
• Ensure strong integration with core ITSM processes such as Incident, Problem, Change, Release, and CMDB
• Drive adoption of automation-first and intelligence-led ways of working

AIOps Transformation Leadership

• Own and drive the AIOps transformation roadmap aligned to IT&D strategy
• Lead transition from reactive operations to predictive and proactive service management
• Identify opportunities to reduce:
• MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve)
• Incident volumes
• Manual interventions
• Enable self-healing and autonomous operations capabilities

AIOps Governance Forum Ownership

• Establish and lead the AIOps & Automation Governance Forum
• Define governance structure including intake, evaluation, prioritisation, and approval of use cases
• Ensure all AIOps / automation ideas are:
• Qualified based on business value, feasibility, and ROI
• Prioritised in line with strategic objectives
• Track implementation progress and value realisation of approved initiatives
• Provide governance over pipeline, backlog, and benefits tracking

Vendor & SIAM Governance

• Operate within a SIAM model, ensuring alignment across multiple service providers
• Hold vendors accountable for:
• Delivery of AIOps and automation initiatives
• Process adherence and quality
• Realisation of committed benefits
• Drive collaboration across vendors to deliver cross-functional automation use cases
• Conduct regular governance reviews and performance checkpoints

Automation & Use Case Lifecycle Management

• Define lifecycle for AIOps and automation use cases (ideation → build → deploy → measure → optimise)
• Standardise approach for:
• Use case documentation
• Value tracking (cost savings, efficiency gains, service improvement)
• Reusability and scaling
• Promote reuse of automation assets and patterns across IT landscape

Performance, Analytics & Value Realisation

• Define KPIs and success metrics for AIOps adoption and value realisation
• Track metrics such as:
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