IT Professional Services Manager

The HBP Group

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  • Full Time
  • Scunthorpe
  • £45,000 to £50,000
IT Support in Scunthorpe

Are you passionate and experienced in developing and leading a high performing team?

 

Who are we?

The HBP Group is the number one choice for many businesses across the UK looking for reliable, award-winning business technology. Providing a range of services including local IT Support, Accounts software and EPOS solutions. We offer our customers a range of the best market leading products and services to streamline complex business processes and increase efficiency. We have 3 offices including our head office in Scunthorpe, an office in Hull and another office in Peterborough.

 

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced manager, that understands what a high performing team is, to play a key role in driving the success of our 11 engineers strong, IT Professional Services team.

As an IT Professional Services Manager, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of the IT Professional Services team with a strong focus on delivering an Effortless Customer Experience through operational excellence, innovation, and outstanding service delivery. You will be instrumental in enhancing processes, supporting financial performance, and developing your team, all while driving continuous improvement.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and customer focused individual with strong leadership abilities and a passion for technology.

 

Responsibilities:

  1. Team Leadership & People Management – Ensuring Customer Ease
  • Inspire, lead, and develop a high performing Professional Services team, by modelling a culture centred on removing friction and ensuring customer ease in every interaction.
  • Set clear expectations, allocate and prioritise work effectively, and monitor performance to ensure consistent, predictable, and effortless service delivery.
  • Ensure the team consistently adheres to established Customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs), using them as a foundation for dependable, low effort customer experiences.
  • Hold regular one to ones, coaching sessions, and development meetings to build capability, drive performance, and encourage long term growth.
  • Bring our company values to life by inspiring behaviours that minimise customer effort and nurture a team environment where people feel supported, motivated, and proud to work.
  • Foster a collaborative environment that promotes teamwork, knowledge sharing, and process improvements that make the customer journey easier.
  • Build team resilience by minimising single points of failure and strengthening cross skilling across roles and technologies.
  • Own and maintain all internal and customer facing documentation, ensuring it is accurate, accessible, and easy for customers and colleagues to understand.
  • Ensure seamless, low effort customer onboarding experiences that set the foundation for long term satisfaction and success.
  • Proactively gather, analyse, and act on customer feedback to improve service processes and eliminate friction from the customer experience.
  • Actively contribute to the wider Group Management Team to support strategic decision making and drive customer ease initiatives across the business.
  • Celebrate positive feedback and take ownership of resolving negative feedback or complaints with transparency, empathy, and solution-focused communication.

2. Technical Support & Service Delivery Management

  • Oversee and prioritise projects, ensuring rapid, high quality project delivery and resolution with minimal disruption and minimal customer effort.
  • Manage escalated tickets and complex or critical issues, maintaining accountability and clear communication through to resolution.
  • Monitor project delivery performance against SLAs and other key criteria, identifying opportunities to improve responsiveness, quality, and customer ease.
  • Continuously review and refine project delivery processes, workflows, and documentation to improve efficiency and create an effortless customer experience.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and automation opportunities that enhance both customer ease and team effectiveness.
  • Ensure technical delivery aligns with Professional Services best practices and standards.

3. Project Management

  • Partner with the IT Director to embed strong project management practices, including project initiation, handover, implementation, and retrospective.
  • Collaborate effectively with internal teams during cross functional projects and initiatives to ensure seemless customer experience across multiple departments within The Group.
  • Proactively identify project issues and misalignment and take sensible steps to resolve at departmental level.

Ensure clear learnings post projects are implemented and embedded within the department and customers are continuously updated.

 

Qualifications, Skills & Experience – What You Bring

Required Qualifications

  • PRINCE2 Agile Foundation, Waterfall, Scrum Master, SAFe, or an equivalent combination of relevant education, experience, and demonstrated capability.

Desirable Qualifications

  • PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner (or willingness to achieve).

Core Experience & Technical Background

  • Proven experience in an IT management or equivalent leadership role.
  • Demonstrated ability to build, coach, and develop high-performing technical teams.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to guide teams through complex projects and processes effectively.
  • Experience with project management, and ITIL or similar frameworks.
  • Solid understanding of computer systems, networks, hardware, and software.
  • Experience simplifying and improving processes to enhance efficiency and reduce customer effort.
  • Understanding of strategic planning with the ability to align team objectives to wider business goals.
  • Comfortable using AI tools, automation, and data insights to inform decisions and improve service outcomes.
  • Experience supporting or managing budgets and contributing to financial forecasting and planning.

 

Key Competencies

  • Leadership: Inspires, motivates, and empowers teams; fosters collaboration and high performance.
  • Performance Management: Sets goals, provides meaningful feedback, and drives continuous development.
  • Strategic Thinking: Makes informed, data-driven decisions and translates strategy into action.
  • Communication: Clear, concise, and adaptable; able to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.
  • Process Optimisation: Identifies opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce friction.
  • Financial Acumen: Understands budgeting, forecasting, and cost-related decision-making.
  • AI & Technology: Confident adopting new technologies, including AI and analytics, to enhance service quality.

 

In addition, the following would be a bonus, not a requirement!

  • Strong IT Knowledge
  • Experience of running an IT Professional Services Department in a fast paced MSP environment
  • Familiarity with helpdesk ticketing systems and remote support tools.
  • IT certifications (e.g., CompTIA A+, Microsoft Certified Professional) are a plus.
  • Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Product stack

 

We are looking for a People Manager (with demonstrable experience):

Who is motivated by building relationships with colleagues, coaching employees to reach their full potential and aligning goals toward a common objective.

Who has a can-do attitude, that sets high standards of excellence and outlines how their team can get there and give them the tools and support to do so.

Who can have tough conversations. Management isn’t always easy, and sometimes you must engage in difficult conversations with employees. We believe in open and honest two way conversations and expect you not to shy away from this; instead, view it as a learning opportunity for both parties.

Who is open to receiving feedback.

Someone who exudes confidence and relishes challenge.

Who possesses an ability to problem-solve and make decisions – part of the role will be spotting and solving problems daily. This requires outstanding attention to detail and the ability to remain calm under pressure. To ensure that your team is productive, and that workflow runs smoothly, you'll have to think on your feet when problems arise. Creative thinking will help you to come up with innovative solutions that minimise the impact on your team and the business.

Who is a great communicator - You'll liaise with a variety of people, from entry-level employees to senior management, in several different ways - via email, over the phone and in presentations, meetings and one-to-ones. Effective communication is key ensuring it is clear, concise, concrete, correct, coherent, complete, courteous.

Who shows high emotional intelligence– we believe our managers need emotional intelligence to be effective. This means having the self-awareness, self-control, motivation, empathy, and social skills needed to behave in a mature, wise, empathetic way with the people around you.

Who has a passion for service delivery – our customers are at the heart of what we do. Ownership, accountability and clear communication of service delivery matters are key at HBP.

 

Salary range between £45,000 - £50,000 per annum (depending on experience).

Working Arrangement: 35 hours per week (Monday – Friday)

 

Why work for us?

Here at the HBP Group we are passionate about our business and our customers, and believe our people are our most asset. Driven by our commitment to creating a great place to work for all our staff, we are always looking for ways to improve our employee experience.

We are committed to being a truly great place to work. As an accredited Living Wage Foundation employer, we proudly pay the Real Living Wage and are working towards earning Best Companies 3 Star “World Class employer to work for” accreditation in the future.

That’s why it’s a great time to join The HBP Group… As we continue our successful journey with exciting and achievable growth plans, we want to focus not only on our overall commercial objectives but creating a great working environment for our staff to thrive. That’s why we are looking for people who are passionate, trustworthy, and forward-thinking to join our team.

Here are some of the fantastic benefits we offer and our people love:

  • 36 days of holiday (28 days plus bank holidays), pro-rated for part-time employees.
  • Option to sell back holiday *
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme and a range of additional salary sacrifice options, including Electric/Hybrid Car, Bike to Work, and Childcare schemes*.
  • Enhanced family-friendly leave, including Maternity Pay*, Paternity Pay*, and our compassionate “Time to Say Goodbye” bereavement leave”.
  • Mid Year and Year End Appreciation Parties, themed office days (yes, even Pancake Day!), and fundraising events supporting our chosen charities.
  • A friendly, inclusive working environment ... we genuinely are a great bunch.
  • Free lunches and summer BBQs.
  • Quarterly Rise & Shine breakfast events to bring the team together.
  • Casual business dress code, with the option to choose from our free workwear wardrobe.
  • Christmas Thank You Bonus*.
  • Structured support and guidance from day one, including tailored training plans to help you succeed.
  • On site parking for convenience.
  • Access to wellness activities to support your wellbeing.

*Eligibility criteria or length-of-service requirements apply.

Closing Date: 30th January 2026

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

Due to the high number of applications, we thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Why Work For Us?

If you’d like to know more about why you should work for The HBP Group then find out more by following the link below.

Supporting both your work and personal life

Employment with benefits

We know that having a fantastic work life isn’t all about bean bags and pool tables, so all of our benefits are designed to make a real difference.
We’ve put a lot of work into making The HBP Group an amazing place to work; part of that is our benefits package. Here’s just some of the things we offer to
our team. Don’t hold your breath to read all of these, because there’s a lot.

Hybrid-Working

Hybrid Working

Our hybrid working offers the best of both worlds; the option to work from home but also time spent with your colleagues in one of our offices.

Flexible-Working

Flexible Working Hours

Our working week is just 35-hours and you have the option to choose the start and end time of your working day, around our office hours (8am – 5pm).

Head-Boobs-and-Balls

Head, Boobs and Balls

We offer free (and anonymous) mental health counselling and if you ever have concerns about your boobs or balls then we pay for a private consultation.

Wellness-Days

Wellness Days

Every quarter we hold a wellness events, providing support, guidance and help on a key topic that we believe contributes to a healthy and happy life.

Health-Shield

Supporting Your Health

To support your health, and the additional costs of some healthcare, we provide everyone with the option of the Health Shield app.

Holiday-Allowance

28-Day Holiday Allowance

Our holiday allowance goes way beyond what most companies offer. You get 28 days, plus bank holidays – that’s at least 36 days off a year.

Annual-Bonus

Annual Bonus

Without doubt Christmas is one of the most expensive times of the year. That’s why we offer a Christmas bonus scheme, paid to you in November.

All-Stars

All Stars Club

The All Stars Club is an annual reward which is voted for by every member of The HBP Group. Winners are treated to an all-inclusive break as recognition.

200-Club

The 200 Club

To recognise over achievement in the BD team, we offer an all-inclusive break to any person who hits the relevant criteria over the course of the year.

Mat-Leave

Enhanced Maternity Leave

Motherhood is certainly no walk in the park, which is why it’s important to us that our mothers feel supported; and why offer enhanced maternity pay.

Pat-Leave

Enhanced Paternity Leave

To support the new dads, we offer an enhanced paternity package that provide 2 weeks’ full pay at the most special of times.

Adoption-Leave

Enhanced Adoption Leave

We endeavour to ensure everyone is given support and encouragement before, during and on their return to work from adoption leave.

Goodbye-Leave

Leave to Say Goodbye

Sadly, some of you will lose loved ones during your time with us. So we offer 5 days’ ‘to say goodbye’ leave (and compassionate leave), on full pay.

Dependents

Looking After Dependents

Most of you will have caring responsibilities, so we provide 2 days in a rolling 12-month period, paid at full pay to look after dependents.

TTP

Tailored Training Plans

To carry out your role there will be knowledge and skills you need to master. So, we provide every member of staff with a tailored training plans.

PDP

Personal Development Plans

To progress yours skills beyond your immediate job requirements, we’ll either fund specific courses to study inside or outside of work, if you’d like.

Yep, there’s more

No, seriously!

Staff-Discount

The HBP Group Staff Discount

To support both our staff and local businesses, we’ve built our own discount scheme with a combination of local businesses and our customers.

Free-Food

Free Food

Every day, we provide a meal to every member of our team who would like one completely free of charge – helping save over £1,700 a year!

Holiday-Sell-Back

Holiday Sell-Back Option

Whilst we like everyone to have a well-earned rest throughout the year, we do offer the option to sell up to 5 days of your annual leave.

Long-Service

Long-Service Awards

As recognition of long-service, we reward anyone that has worked for us for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 years (and no doubt more in the future).

Uniform

The HBP Group Wardrobe

To help everyone look sharp at the office we provide all of our staff with a selection of clothing from The HBP Group Wardrobe.

Bi-Annual-Parties

Bi-Annual Appreciation Parties

Twice a year, we feedback to everyone about our performance and have a good ol’ knees up. Great chance to catch-up with colleagues.

Celebrations

Themed Office Activities

We don’t need much of an excuse to host a barbecue when the sun comes out, but we also have mini celebrations throughout the year.

Staff-Referral

Staff Referral Scheme

If a person you recommend joins and passes their probation, you get 3,000 big ones added to your next payslip. That’s right, £3,000!

Pension

Pension Scheme

Our pension scheme provides those that are eligible with a pension, that has a matched contribution of up to 4% available from us too.

ESG

Environmental Policies

A robust ESG plan in place, focussing on 3 key areas: good health and wellbeing, decent work and economic growth and climate action.

Colourworks

Colourworks

We use a psychometric testing to help you, our managers and your colleagues adapt behaviours, to get the best out of each other.

PFYT

Penny For Your Thoughts

Each year, we ask you to spend some time with one of our leadership team to provide your honest opinions about the business.