GATX Rail Europe is a leading, full-service railcar lessor offering a high quality and diversified fleet to over 20 European countries. With an experienced, service-oriented team, we are focused on making railcar leasing and rail transport simple, efficient, and seamless thus we have strategically located offices across Europe. At GATX we empower, develop, and recognize our people, building a culture of excellence, accountability, and respect. We value diversity and open communication to create a collaborative environment. Together, we achieve more and embrace change by challenging the status quo.

To support our growing organisation we are currently looking for 

IT Service Desk Manager (m/f/d)

Your main responsibilities:

• Managing the IT Service Desk Team, including coaching, mentoring and evaluating team performance 
  
• Managing incidents (including major incident management) and handling service requests, as well as escalation policies and procedures 
  
• Developing and communicating tactical and strategic solutions to operational issues and procedures 
  
• Analyzing incident trends and anticipating potential problems for proactive resolution 
  
• Managing process exceptions and looking for opportunities to remediate and prevent exception recurrence 
  
• Managing the lifecycle of new and existing service management processes, including new process design and introduction 
  
• Creating documentation, especially enterprise-level guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other procedures 
  
• Participating in maintaining inventory of hardware, software, and support assets. 
  
• Managing relationships with vendors in subordinate fields of responsibility 
  
• Managing licenses and budget in subordinate fields of responsibility 

We offer: 

• attractive and well equipped workplace in the heart of the city center
• interesting job where you can meet diversified challenges and tasks every day
• international working environment, shaped by team work and a great atmosphere
• appropriate remuneration and social benefits of a modern company
• flexible working time including home office model
• close cooperation and exchange of experience with other skilled teams within the GATX group
• opportunity for professional development with wide range of trainings
• work in a company with an established, stable position on the market and a long history 

You are a good fit if you have:

• Strong experience in service desk/IT support, including experience in a leading position 
  
• Extensive experience with GPOs, applications and software, license agreement terms 
  
• Experience with Windows client systems (installation, setup, reinstallation, recovery) 
  
• Hands-on knowledge of integrated service management tools such as Jira Core, Jira Service Desk and Asset Management 
  
• Knowledge and understanding of ITIL principles 
  
• Fluency in English and German 
  
• Very good communication skills 
  
• Readiness for occasional business trips 

Not essential but will be an advantage:  

• Experience in setting up network equipment (switch, router) and deep knowledge of network protocols 
  
• Experience with Mac OS client systems (installation, setup, reinstallation, recovery)

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

Join our GATX team and let’s make railcar leasing easier together.

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