Sr. Manager, Retail Network

As the Sr. Manager you will lead a team that provides service insight, response, and service management to maintain high service reliability and availability with low touch through extensible services and platforms, standardized processes, data insights, and product feedback.  Responsible for managing internal and external resources as well as client and vendor relationships.  This role ensures high levels of system availability, customer satisfaction, and optimal usage of hardware and software resources. He/she will lead the research, planning, design, implementation and support of the Inspire retail networks for all brands.

 RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the retail network infrastructure (LAN, WAN, VPN, wireless) 

• Research and make decisions on software, processes, and partners to provide enterprise class support for Inspire Brands retail networks. 

• Ensure that comprehensive service and support procedures are implemented and well understood, and that service level objectives are met or exceeded as applicable.  

• Responsible for retail network operations and support related issues on a day-to-day basis, and long-term planning for maintaining technologically current, reliable, and cost-effective solutions.  

• Oversee and provide leadership direction during operational incidents, ensuring necessary resourcing and availability of subject matter expertise as well as proactive business communications.  

• Ensure that requests and incidents are accurately documented, escalated, and resolved.  

• Responsible for continuously generating and analyzing metrics to ensure that performance levels are satisfactory, and trends are identified and proactively addressed as necessary.  

• Develop, implement, and manage governance models that enable business units to leverage technology offerings securely and effectively 

• Coordinate with functional or operational area managers to understand their current and future information needs and develop plans, cost estimates, and schedules for integrating these needs into existing operations or develop plans for future operational support.  

• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to ensure cohesive network integration across all retail systems. 

• Ensure that technical and financial evaluation of services consider all specified requirements, and that product selection is based on thorough research.  

• Assist and advise in the areas of physical planning, security, backup and recovery and the logistics of contingency planning. 

• Develop processes to manage allocation, reporting and containment of costs for platforms. 

• Maintain systems in accordance with best practices to improve security, reliability and resilience of the systems in p