Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.
KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.
KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.
IT Professional - KONE Corporation
Senior Operations Manager, Connectivity
KONE IT – Connectivity
We are looking for a Senior Operations Lead to drive and own the operations for KONE IT Connectivity. KONE IT Connectivity is responsible for the Global KONE Network and Network Security for our 800+ offices and provides highly critical infrastructure services to KONE offices, call centers and factories gross the globe.
Description
As a Senior Operations Lead - Connectivity, you are accountable for ensuring that IT products and platforms in your scope are secure, reliable, and continuously available for users. You are managing these products and platforms with agreed KONE IT KPI’s and service SLA’s and according to IT service support, operation and performance processes and best practices.
You lead service operations end-to-end, working closely with product teams, operations engineers, and external partners to deliver high-quality, efficient, and uninterrupted services.
You play a critical role in driving operational excellence, improving performance, and embedding Agile ways of working across the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
- Own and run end-to-end service operations in line with ITSM processes and security/compliance requirements for the KONE Networks.
- Ensure availability, performance, and stability of all products in scope
- Responsible for managing the Network incident, problem, and change processes and drive operational discipline
- Responsible for IT service descriptions, documentation, knowledge articles, user communication and training materials as well as proactive operational communications to relevant IT users in scope
- Responsible for continuous service improvement including service quality and availability, end-user experience, security and compliance as well as cost and efficiency
- Responsible for service continuity and disaster recovery readiness
- Responsible for operational and tactical supplier and contract management within the scope as well as ensuring the invoicing and finances are being managed
- Ensure seamless service integration (SIAM) where multiple providers are involved
- Engage with key user communities to gather feedback and improve service performance
- Facilitate governance forums and ensure clear communication with stakeholders
Deliverables
- Service Operations Framework : Defined and run ITSM processes, service model, SLAs, and governance structure for the Connectivity Operations
- Operational Documents and Knowledge Base for Networks: Up-to-date runbooks, service docs, knowledge articles, and user guidance
- Service performance dashboard and reporting: KPIs on availability, incidents, MTTR, change success, and user experience
- Continuous improvement backlog: Prioritized initiatives for automation, stability, and efficiency improvements
- Incident and problem management: Major incident reports, root cause analyses (RCA), and trend insights and capability to lead network major incident resolution end-to-end
- Change readiness governance: Operational readiness checks, go-live approvals, and post-implementation reviews for the Network changes
- Supplier and Service Integration Management: Vendor scorecards, performance reviews, and multi-provider coordination (SIAM)
- Business Continuity and Disaster recovery plans: BCP/DR documentation, testing results, and resilience improvements
- CMDB and Data Quality Management: Accurate configuration data and regular data quality reporting
- Automation and service development: Monitoring improvements, automation use cases, and service maturity roadmap
- Financial management of service invoicing
Primary Skills
- Proven experience in IT service operations management (8+ years)
- 5+ years of experience working in Network Domain
- Strong knowledge of ITIL processes and Agile and Lean methodologies
- Good understanding of Enterprise Networks and understanding of IT/OT concepts in manufacturing
- Understanding of Network Security, Cloud, Data Centers
- Experience in working with: SD-WAN, LAN, WIFI, DHCP, network monitoring tools and understanding of SASE, Firewalls, VPN
- Good understanding of IT architecture and its operational impact
- Experience working in global and matrix organizations
- Strong supplier and contract management skills
- Automation skills: technical or operational automations
Secondary Skills
- Financial management
- Virtual team working
- Project management
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
Skills Required
- 8+ years experience in IT service operations management
- 5+ years experience in Network domain
- Strong knowledge of ITIL processes
- Experience with Agile and Lean methodologies
- Understanding of Enterprise Networks and IT/OT concepts in manufacturing
- Understanding of Network Security, Cloud, and Data Centers
- Experience with SD-WAN, LAN, WiFi, DHCP and network monitoring tools
- Understanding of SASE, Firewalls, and VPN technologies
- Good understanding of IT architecture and operational impact
- Experience working in global and matrix organizations
- Strong supplier and contract management skills
- Automation skills (technical or operational automations)
- Financial management (secondary)
- Virtual team working (secondary)
- Project management (secondary)
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
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