Associate Director ITIL Service Management

Aristocrat is seeking a dedicated Associate Director ITIL Service Management to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in crafting and improving our IT service management landscape, ensuring we provide outstanding services to our B2B customers. At Aristocrat, we pride ourselves on a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Our mission is to bring happiness to life through the power of play, and we are committed to delivering outstanding service management that supports this mission. In this exciting role, you will have the opportunity to lead and develop our ITIL-aligned Service Management function. This is your chance to create a meaningful impact by defining and implementing service management processes that are customer-centric and commercially effective. Join us, and be part of an ambitious team that strives for flawless execution and continuous improvement! What You'll Do Build and implement an ITIL-based service management operating model. Establish governance structures, policies, standards, and controls for service management. Promote an environment of outstanding service, ownership, and constant development. Lead the development, implementation, governance, and continual improvement of ITIL processes, including Incident Management, Major Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Enablement, Knowledge Management, Asset Management, Service Catalogue Management, and Continual Service Improvement. Ensure processes are consistently adopted across internal teams and service management providers. Define benchmarks and SLA frameworks. Develop meaningful service reporting and management information for internal & external customers and collaborators. Build executive dashboards and service scorecards/reports. Analyse trends and performance data to identify improvement opportunities. Drive accountability for service outcomes through data-driven decision making, post-incident reviews, and lessons learned. Build positive relationships with senior business and technology collaborators. Act as the primary point of contact for significant service outages involving blocking issues. Ensure business requirements are reflected within service management delivery models. Build and lead a high-performing IT Service Management team by recruiting, developing, and mentoring ITSM teams. What We're Looking For Extensive experience managing IT Service Management team functions in complex organisations. Proven experience establishing or transforming ITSM capabilities. Deep practical knowledge of ITIL and service management guidelines. Experience governing large-scale outsourced or managed service environments. Experience implementing and improving ITIL processes. Excellent collaborator management skills. Experience defining service metrics, benchmarks, SLAs, and reporting frameworks. ITIL v4 Managing Professional, ITIL Expert, or equivalent. Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience. ITIL Strategic Leader. Company Summary Aristocrat Interactive   Aristocrat Interactive is Aristocrat Leisure Limited’s (ASX: ALL) regulated online Real Money Gaming (RMG) business and was formed in 2024 when the Anaxi and NeoGames businesses (Anaxi, NeoGames, Aspire Global, BtoBet, and Pariplay) came together.  The business is an industry leader in content and technology solutions for online RMG, with a full-service offering that includes content, proprietary technology platforms and a range of value added services across iLottery, iGaming and Online Sports Betting (OSB). About Aristocrat Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a leading gaming content creation company powered by technology to deliver industry-leading casino games together with mobile games and online real money games, collectively entertaining millions of players worldwide, every day. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 8,500 people across the globe are united by our company mission to bring joy to life through the power of play. Our Values All about the Player Talent Unleashed Collective Brilliance Good Business Good Citizen Travel Expectations None Additional Information At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery. Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day. Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content. Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people. We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat. Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day. We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play! Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law. If you need assistance or accommodation applying for a position, please reach out to helpdesk-recruiting@aristocrat.com. At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe. Our Sustainability report provides information on the progress we’ve made each year, across our four strategic sustainability pillars – Good Governance & Responsible Business, Empowering Safer Play (formerly responsible gameplay), Operational Sustainability & Climate, and People & Community. You can read more about our progress here: https://www.aristocrat.com/sustainability/