Senior IT Service Manager - Catalogue

Are you passionate about improving IT services that make a real difference to users?

Can you lead service improvements, optimise processes and drive better outcomes for customers?

Do you have the expertise to manage and evolve a modern IT service catalogue and tooling ecosystem?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is an exciting time to join the Digital, Information and Security Directorate within the Department for Transport as we restructure our directorate to ensure we are ready for future challenges, building a more sustainable, skilled and in-house capability.

Improve services. Drive change. Deliver value.

Lead the evolution of IT service management and service catalogue capabilities, helping the Department for Transport deliver seamless digital services, improve user experiences and drive continuous improvement.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers and within the Government Digital and Data Profession.

Join the Department for Transport's Digital, Information and Security Directorate and play a key role in shaping and improving the digital services that support colleagues across the organisation. As a Senior IT Service Manager, you'll lead the development and management of IT service catalogue capabilities, helping to ensure services are efficient, user-focused and aligned to organisational needs.

Working within the Essentials Service Line, you'll be responsible for maintaining and developing IT service management tooling, improving workflows and supporting the delivery of consistent, high-quality service management practices. You'll work closely with operational teams, architects, suppliers and business stakeholders to enhance service performance, improve reporting capabilities and deliver continuous service improvements.

You'll analyse service performance, identify opportunities for improvement and help shape the roadmap for service management tools and processes. Through effective stakeholder engagement and leadership, you'll drive positive change, improve user experiences and support the delivery of reliable and effective digital services.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced IT service management professional who enjoys problem-solving, service improvement and delivering meaningful outcomes for users and the wider organisation.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Defining and maintaining the roadmap for the ITSM tools, including the larger tooling ecosystem in partnership with Architecture.
• Configuring and maintaining workflows for the defined processes which are managed within the ITSM tool, driving consistency across the teams.
• Leading platform upgrades and overseeing the day-to-day platform health, upgrades and releases to ensure an available and supported service.
• Communicating and promoting features and functionality of deployed tooling to help ensure we gain high levels of value created, utilising best practice of the recommended tool configuration.
• Creating and enhancing dashboards and reporting across IT Service Management practices, enabling service owners and team leaders to make informed decisions. Collaborate with the Service Level Management (SLM) team to ensure service performance data is accurately captured, analysed, and translated into meaningful management information and service improvement opportunities.
• Acting as the bridge between operational teams, architecture, business, and vendor stakeholders. Managing the integrations and presenting a customer-consumable platform to meet the organisation's needs.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

How to apply:

Our selection process ensures a comprehensive assessment of each applicant's experience, skills, and potential fit within our organisation.

The selection process for this role will be:

Stage 1: Sift of CV and personal statement

Stage 2: Interview

You must be successful at each stage to progress to the next stage.

Stage 1: Sift

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

Experience – you will be asked to provide a CV (unlimited wordcount) and personal statement (1000 word count). Please provide evidence of your Experience of the following:

• Managing and reporting on IT Service Management performance, using service data, metrics and insights to monitor service health, identify trends, support decision-making, and provide clear reporting to stakeholders at all levels.
• Leading service improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance service quality, efficiency and customer experience, and driving continuous improvement activities from concept through to implementation and benefit realisation.
• Managing service catalogues, maintaining accurate and accessible service information, defining service offerings, supporting service design activities, and ensuring services are clearly understood by both users and stakeholders.
• Developing and maintaining knowledge management practices, ensuring that knowledge articles, guidance and support documentation are accurate, accessible and up to date, enabling effective knowledge sharing, self-service and operational resilience.

The sift will take place from Monday 28th September 2026.

Stage 2: Interview

At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

• Behaviours - Managing a Quality Service, Communicating and Influencing and Changing and Improving
• Technical – Technical Understanding
• Experience

The interviews will take place from Monday 12th October 2026.

This interview will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

You can find out more about our hiring process, how to apply, and application and interview guidance on our careers site.

Please note that we will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

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Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

If your application is successful but you have been dismissed from the Civil Service, your application could be removed at the pre-employment checking stage depending on the nature of the dismissal.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

All external applicants and current employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) will be required to undergo a Social Media Check. A Social Media Check is a review of your publicly available online activity, typically across platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and others. The purpose is to identify any public posts or content that could raise concerns for employers, such as:

• Hate speech or discriminatory behaviour
• Threats or acts of violence
• Illegal activity or substance misuse
• Sexually explicit material
• Extremist views or affiliations

Importantly, this check does not involve hacking into your accounts or accessing private messages. It only considers content you have chosen to make public. Employers use this kind of screening to help ensure their workplace remains safe, inclusive, and aligned with company values. It’s not about judging your personality or lifestyle - it’s about checking for potential red flags that might affect the role or company culture. If you have questions or concerns about the social media check, we would be happy to explain in more detail what’s being looked at and how your data is handled securely and fairly.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.