Service Delivery Manager

This is an opportunity to step into a high-impact role at the center of service delivery, governance, and operational resilience for MIPSL (Microsoft Ireland Payment Services Limited), a newly created and regulated payment services provider based in Dublin, Ireland. The Service Delivery Manager will help shape how critical outsourced services are governed and improved, working across business, compliance, procurement, legal, and supplier partners to ensure performance, risk management, and regulatory alignment. It is a role for someone who enjoys building structure, driving continuous improvement, and adopting AI-enabled capabilities to improve efficiency, control, and service outcomes in a fast-evolving environment.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realise our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

The Service Delivery Manager leads oversight of outsourced service delivery for MIPSL, ensuring providers perform in line with contractual obligations, KPIs, SLAs, regulatory requirements, and internal governance standards. The role provides clear visibility into service performance, drives structured vendor reviews, and prepares decision-ready updates that highlight performance trends, risks, dependencies, and recommended actions.

The role owns identification, escalation, and follow-through for service delivery risks, incidents, provider failures, and contractual concerns. It works across vendors, process owners, and governance stakeholders to ensure issues are investigated, documented, tracked to resolution, and escalated appropriately, including to the Outsourcing Committee when governance attention or decision-making is required.

The Service Delivery Manager supports the full outsourcing lifecycle, including provider evaluation, due diligence, criticality assessment, onboarding, contract change activity, and ongoing sub-outsourcing oversight. The role partners closely with procurement, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure outsourced arrangements are governed effectively and contractual provisions meet regulatory and operational requirements.

In addition, the role strengthens operational resilience and governance discipline by supporting continuity, exit, and contingency planning, maintaining high-quality outsourcing records, and enabling timely audit and regulatory support. The Service Delivery Manager also helps improve control effectiveness and service outcomes through disciplined documentation, process improvement, and adoption of scalable ways of working, including AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Business, or related field AND operations, program management, process management or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Understanding of outsourcing governance and outsourced service delivery in a regulated environment.
• Experience in vendor and/or service provider management covering performance, sourcing, due diligence, and risk assessment, alongside incident management, escalation handling, operational resilience, and risk-based issue resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience preparing governance updates, risk summaries, decision papers, audit evidence, or regulatory support materials.
• Practical experience with incident management, remediation tracking, control updates, or service improvement actions.
• Experience managing records and documentation related to outsourcing, contracts, suppliers, risk, or governance.
• Working knowledge of contracts, SLAs, KPIs, purchase orders, invoicing, and related service governance processes.
• Ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity and alignment.
• Process design, operating model, and continuous improvement skills, including practical adoption of AI-enabled capabilities.
• Demonstrated judgment, communication, prioritization, and documentation skills.

Process Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 80,000.00 - € 136,400.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.