Service Desk Analyst

About Euromonitor:

Euromonitor International leads the world in data analytics and research into markets, industries, economies and consumers. We provide truly global insight and data on thousands of products and services; we are the first destination for organisations seeking growth. With our guidance, our clients can make bold, strategic decisions with confidence.

The Service Desk Analyst helps resolve user issues with computer hardware and software for internal colleagues.  They provide exceptional standards of support to all our internal customers and support a variety of assets, products, services and platforms, acting as a the single point of contact for all IT incidents and service requests. Using excellent problem solving and analysis skills they can determine the full scope of the user’s issue and how to resolve it.  Exceptional standards of customer service are achieved by acting in a proactive and reactive manner with a strong commercial awareness. 

The Service Desk Analyst can work unrepentantly and part of their team to ensure that all performance targets are adhered to.  Resolutions are provided effectively, in a timely manner and with proactive communication to ensure customer satisfaction.

 Core Responsibilities 

Incident & Service Request Management 

Responding to requests and meeting SLAs 

Asset Management & Configuration:  

Maintain the Asset Register for tracking, logging and correcting information to protect the organisation’s software and hardware assets & components. 

Continual Improvement:  

Adopts & engages with agreed processes and new process improvements. Feeds into process efficiency and common ways in which processes are improved and optimised.  Can spot or identify obvious issues with current processes for improvements. 

Customer Service Management:  

Resolves user requests & support tickets. Empathises with the end user and has a strong commercial awareness. Use customer-focused metrics to achieve a satisfactory outcome.  Builds relationships with colleagues across the organisation. 

Problem Management: 

Demonstrates an understanding of and can identify problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution and understanding the root cause. Can classify and prioritise problems, document their causes and implement remedies. Reduce the frequency & impact of incidents. 

Ownership & Initiative:  

Owns an issue through to mitigation or resolution, escalating if additional support is required. 

Service Focus:  

Has a good understanding of our different Technical & Digital products and services to provide support to our end users. 

ITIL Framework:  

Understands and has practical application of ITIL service management framework principles and processes and how they are applied in our environment.  

Service Reporting:  

Foundational use of reports to understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in our products or services. 

User Experience:  

Puts users first, prioritises their needs while managing competing priorities. Understands users, identifies who they are and what their needs are. Has a strong commercial awareness and analyses user requirements/issues to propose solutions to resolve those needs for internal & external users.  Ensuring colleagues can work anywhere and have a consistent experience.  Provide VIP support for the Leadership team. 

Technical Services Responsibilities 

• Provisioning hardware and software for our End Users and ensuring secure connectivity to our systems and networks.  

• Providing technical support for hardware, software, access and connectivity issues by answering technical queries and assisting users 

• Administration and maintenance of approved software systems that Tech Services have responsibility for. 

• Applying operating system and application updates, security patches and configuration changes 

• Ensuring appropriate accessibility by updating user account information, resetting passwords, and ensuring roles-based access where applicable. 

• Managing access to systems including the Microsoft 365 portfolio  

• Responsibility for documenting the configuration of our systems. 

• Managing access to information and controlling access to that information. 

• Performance improvements through analysis and tuning to remove bottlenecks. 

• Policy implementation to monitor and enforce compliance across the organisation; ensuring work is carried out in line with security best practices. 

• Avoiding service interruptions or outages by performing system installations, updates, and maintenance procedures. 

• Responding to alerts raised by end point protection systems and Security Operations Centre (SOC). 

• Ensuring work is carried out in line with security best practices. 

• Managing and maintaining meeting room technology and equipment. 

• Intermediate administrative knowledge of Active Directory, Windows OS, Microsoft 365 Admin, Halo ITSM Platform, Intune/MEM, Mimecast, Webroot.  Can resolve most known support tickets. 

• Foundational knowledge of Crowdstrike & Google and can perform basic support and administration tasks. 

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written 

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage responsibilities and respond to internal and external requests in a timely manner, and multi-task, as required. 

• Is proactive and takes accountability. 

• Demonstrated experience of providing high quality customer support. 

• Demonstrated experience supporting Microsoft Office 365 

• Understanding of digital product architecture. 

• Experience working in Microsoft Azure environments would be beneficial. 

• Experience troubleshooting web application and network connectivity issues. 

• Capability to provide training on support related issues. 

• Knowledge of MS Office/Outlook. 

• Experience of troubleshooting Windows 11. 

• ITIL4 Foundation certification. 

Benefits

Why work for Euromonitor?

Our Values:

We seek individuals who act with integrity

We look for candidates who are curious about the world

We feel that as a community, we’re stronger together

We seek to enable people to feel empowered

We welcome candidates who bring strength in diversity

International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we communicate across our 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis.

Hardworking and sociable: our staff know how to work hard and know also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of other groups to be involved with.

Committed to making a difference: We believe that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It gives all new starters a donation amount on joining us which they can give to a charity of their choice.

It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights.

Excellent benefits: we offer competitive salaries, enhanced healthcare and pensions, plus generous holiday allowances, hybrid working and, in many offices, a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day.

Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our Managers and Directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.