Freshworks / Freshservice SME, 6 month contract, Remote
Our customer a leading profesional services organisation is looking for a Freshworks / Freshservice expert to work on contract for an initial 6 months.
The Freshservice SME will play a critical role in stabilising, optimising, and evolving
Freshservice as a cross-functional enterprise workflow platform supporting multiple
operational departments across the organisation - not solely as an IT service management
tool.
Freshservice is currently utilised to manage and enable business processes spanning IT
operations, operational support teams, and wider business services. As platform adoption
continues to expand, there is an increasing need for stronger governance, improved
workflow design, greater automation, and enhanced operational reporting to ensure the
platform can effectively support complex and growing business requirements.
This role offers the opportunity to work across both business and technology functions,
helping shape how operational workflows are designed, managed, automated, and
measured across the organisation.
Key areas of focus include:
• Supporting the rollout and optimisation of Freshservice as an enterprise workflow
platform across business functions
• Improving workflow efficiency, throughput, and operational performance across
departments
• Strengthening governance, ownership, and change control processes across the
platform
• Driving greater automation, standardisation, and reporting maturity
• Enhancing operational insight through meaningful dashboards, KPI frameworks, and
reporting structures
Duties and Responsibilities
• Support the rollout and optimisation of Freshservice as an enterprise workflow
platform across multiple business functions.
• Assess how operational and business processes are configured, routed, automated,
and reported within the platform.
• Redesign and optimise workflows to reduce bottlenecks, improve throughput,
minimise manual intervention, and enhance cycle times.
• Strengthen governance, ownership, platform standards, and change control
processes across departments.
• Drive standardisation of request types, categorisation structures, SLAs, workflows,
and reporting frameworks.
• Partner with operational leaders and workspace managers to align system
configuration with business process requirements.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability,
and operational consistency.
• Configure and enhance workspace automations using Freshservice workflow
capabilities and orchestration tooling.
• Design and maintain user-friendly support portal forms to ensure consistent and
efficient request submission.
• Maintain and optimise ticket categorisation structures to support accurate routing,
SLA management, and operational reporting.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting frameworks that provide
meaningful operational insight and KPI visibility.
• Support the development of workspace reports for SLA tracking, operational
performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide functional and technical support for Freshservice platform issues, ticket
queries, and workflow-related challenges.
• Document operating models, platform configuration standards, governance controls,
and best practice guidance.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and upskilling to support sustainable long-term platform
ownership across operational teams.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to ensure workflows remain
aligned with organisational priorities and operational objectives.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
• Significant hands-on experience configuring, administering, and optimising
Freshservice within complex multi-department environments.
• Strong understanding of Freshservice workflow automation capabilities, including
business rules, orchestration, custom objects, and workflow nodes such as Reader,
App, JSON Parser, Expression, and API nodes.
• Proven experience using service management platforms as enterprise workflow and
operational management tools beyond traditional IT support.
• Strong understanding of business process design, workflow optimisation,
operational governance, and service delivery principles.
• Demonstrated experience improving operational throughput, reducing backlogs, and
increasing workflow efficiency within complex operational environments.
• Experience designing scalable workflows, operational processes, and reporting
structures.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work
effectively across business and technology teams.
• Data-driven mindset with experience defining, implementing, and embedding
meaningful KPIs, SLAs, and operational reporting frameworks.
• Strong documentation skills with the ability to produce clear process
documentation, standards, and governance artefacts.
Desirable:
• Experience working within global delivery models or offshore/onshore operational
structures.
• ITIL certification or equivalent service management experience.
• Familiarity with enterprise workflow governance, service operations, and platform
maturity initiatives.
• Experience supporting workflow automation and operational transformation
Mid-Senior level
Contract