About this role

Overview Due to internal promotions, we’re looking for an IT Service Desk Team Lead to join our End-User Services department. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll play a key part in shaping the day-to-day IT support experience for colleagues across Cambridge Consultants. Cambridge Consultants is a global technology consultancy that helps organisations solve complex technical and business challenges. Our teams include engineers, scientists, designers, and specialists from a wide range of disciplines, all relying on effective, responsive IT services to do their best work.

As Service Desk Team Lead, you’ll sit at the heart of that experience by managing a small and capable team , and helping to ensure our IT services are reliable, approachable, and continually improving. This role offers the opportunity to combine people leadershi p, management, hands-on technical skills , and service improvement with in an environment where your judgement, ideas, and operational insight genuinely matter.

This opportunity will require you to work on-site the majority of the time, with the option of occasional home working, where the role allows. The role You’ll take a leading role in shaping the day-to-day experience of IT support at Cambridge Consultants, guiding and developing a small, highly capable Service Desk team whilst remaining hands-on and close to the work. By leading from the front, you’ll help ensure incidents and requests are handled efficiently, escalations are managed smoothly, and colleagues receive thoughtful, reliable support they can depend on.

The Service Desk team is made up of five colleagues based in Cambridge and supports people right across the organisation, including those working internationally or travelling overseas. As Team Lead, you’ll set clear direction, provide coaching and encouragement, and create an environment where the team can thrive, grow their skills, and take pride in the service they deliver as part of the wider IT Services organisation.

This role offers the chance to make a real impact. Working closely with colleagues across IT Services, you’ll help ensure the Service Desk is ready to support modern endpoint platforms, collaboration technologies, and evolving ways of working. Your insight from day-to-day service operations will help shape service improvements and ensure that user experience remains central to service delivery. Responsibilities Your responsibilities may vary and there’s opportunity for this role to evolve over time, but we’ve provided an example of the types of things you can expect: Provide day-to-day leadership, line management, coaching, and development for Service Desk colleagues, fostering a supportive and high-performing team culture.

Provide hands-on support alongside the Service Desk team, handling incidents and requests directly and acting as an escalation point for more complex or technically nuanced issues. Own and manage Service Desk operations, ensuring incidents and requests are logged, prioritised, assigned, and resolved in line with agreed service levels. M onitor and manage Service Desk performance against agreed service levels and operational metrics, using insight from tickets and trends to drive service quality, prioritisation, and continuous improvement.

Act as the primary escalation point for Service Desk issues, coordinating effectively with colleagues across IT Services to resolve more complex or high-impa ct problems Monitor queue health, workload distribution, and emerging trends to ensure effective resourcing, timely response, and consistent quality of service . Ensure clear, timely, and appropriate communication is provided to users during incidents, service disruptions, and operational changes.

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