What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Service Management Specialist position at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee?
The IT Service Management team is looking for a talented, agile IT Service Management Specialist who can translate complex and/or technical issues into a more digestible format. Our ideal candidate will develop process documentation, develop and maintain process training materials, be adept at critical thinking, and demonstrate excellent oral & written communication skills.
In this role, you will participate in and drive process guidance and adherence for the ITIL processes – change, incident, request, knowledge, and problem disciplines within the ServiceNow tool. Occasional incident-related on-call support may be required.
Job Responsibilities
- Serving as the first line of support for implementation issues and questions.
- Supporting the development and deployment of new ITIL services. Provide ongoing support and execution of service management process.
- Coordinating activities with service providers to ensure that ITIL services satisfy business specifications.
- Recording and documenting key ITIL implementation procedures.
- Coordination, monitoring, and improvement of existing and new IT processes such as incident, problem, change, knowledge, and request management, or any other ITIL discipline, including audit remediation activities.
- Proactively identify problem trends and known defects to initiate problem tickets to research and identify root cause and permanent solutions with technology and application areas.
- Ensures infrastructure hardware, software and application changes are planned, coordinated, approved, communicated, and supported to reduce organizational risk for successful implementation across BCBST’s operational technology environment
- As appropriate provide on call support representing Incident Management interest in a 24X7 environment and clearly articulating technical and complex concepts to peers and business leaders
- Prepares, facilitates, participates, in weekly/daily process review meetings to drive ITSM objectives
Job Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in a Computer Sciences related field or equivalent work experience
Experience
- 2 years - Experience in computer operations or similar technical areas required
- 1 years of experience in IT Service Management experience, IT Support or Analytics
Skills\Certifications
- Applied knowledge of ITIL best practices.
- Attention to detail, exceptional documentation abilities, and organizational skills
- Proven analytical and problem solving skills and ability to perform non-routine analytical tasks
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Exceptional time management skills
- Ability to work flexible hours in order to meet the needs of the business
- PC Skills required (Basic Microsoft Office and E-Mail)
- Customer service oriented
- Basic understanding and capabilities in creating and utilizing reporting and metrics to aid in analysis
Number of Openings Available:
1
Worker Type:
Employee
Company:
BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.
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