Incident Manager
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Job description
The IT Incident Manager acts as the central coordination point ('air traffic controller') for all IT incidents, ensuring end-to-end ownership, visibility, and resolution across the estate.
This role is accountable for maintaining real-time awareness of all open incidents, with a particular focus on Priority (P1/P2) incidents and business-critical platforms such as Salesforce, ensuring rapid service restoration while minimising business impact.
In addition, the role is responsible for the day-to-day leadership of Application Specialists, ensuring incidents and requests are actively progressed through structured coordination, clear accountability, and disciplined follow-up., 1. Incident Oversight & Coordination
- Act as the single point of control for all incidents across IT services
- Maintain a live view of all active tickets (Priority and Standard)
- Ensure every incident has:
- A clearly defined owner
- A documented next action
- A committed resolution timeline
- Proactively identify and escalate risks to resolution timelines
- Drive momentum on all tickets, ensuring they are continuously progressed
Aligned with Belron processes, the Incident Manager owns the overall coordination and lifecycle of incidents
- Team Leadership - Application Specialists
- Provide day-to-day management of 2 Application Specialists responsible for incident and request progression
- Set clear expectations on:
- Ticket ownership and governance
- Quality of updates and documentation
- Timeliness of actions and follow-ups
- Ensure the team:
- Proactively sets up bridge calls where required
- Actively tracks and documents actions from meetings
- Maintains full visibility of all open tickets and dependencies
- Hold team members accountable for:
- Driving incidents forward
- Chasing owners and stakeholders
- Preventing stalled or "orphaned" tickets
- Major Incident & Priority Management
- Work with Collaborate and Lead management of P1 Incidents with Belron Global Major Incidents team
- Lead Management of P2 incidents, including:
- Hosting or overseeing bridge calls / war rooms
- Driving structured action tracking and follow-up
- Ensuring clear escalation paths are followed
- Maintain a tight cadence of updates during major incidents
- Ensure focus remains on rapid restoration of service
Major incident coordination includes structured communication, escalation and bridge management across stakeholders
- Business-Critical Platform Focus
- Act as the Incident Lead particularly post-release / hypercare
- Ensure strong collaboration between:
- AMS support partner
- Internal Product Owners
- Business SMEs
- Drive accountability across all parties to ensure timely resolution
- Identify repeat issues and feed into problem management
- Reporting, Dashboards & Insight
- Produce and own incident reporting dashboards (e.g., ServiceNow / Power BI)
- Provide clear visibility on:
- Incident backlog and ageing
- Priority incident trends
- Call drivers and volume reduction opportunities
- Ensure reporting supports decision-making at SLT and Executive level
Belron standards include KPI tracking, performance monitoring and stakeholder reporting
- Stakeholder Communication
- Deliver clear, structured updates to:
- IT Leadership
- SLT and Executive teams
- Business stakeholders
- Translate technical issues into clear business impact messaging
- Ensure consistent communication standards across the team
- Lead post-incident reviews and executive summaries
- Third-Party & Internal Collaboration
- Work closely with AMS support partners and third-party vendors
- Ensure accountability across suppliers for incident resolution
- Collaborate effectively with:
- Internal IT teams
- Product Owners
- Service Desk
- Business stakeholders
- Continuous Improvement
- Identify trends and root causes to:
- Reduce incident volume
- Improve resolution times
- Enhance stability of Salesforce and core systems
- Drive improvements in:
- Incident management processes
- Ticket governance and quality
- Reporting and insight capability
Requirements
Do you have experience in ServiceNow?, Essential
- Proven experience in IT Incident Management (ITIL aligned)
- Experience managing Major Incidents (P1/P2)
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing or directing operational teams
- Ability to hold individuals accountable and drive outcomes across multiple stakeholders
- Experience with ITSM tools (e.g. ServiceNow)
- Strong reporting and analytical skills (Power BI or similar)
- Excellent communication skills, including executive-level presentations
Desirable
- Experience in complex integrated environments including Front and Back-office systems. (For example, Salesforce & Oracle)
- Experience working with AMS / outsourced support models
- ITIL Foundation (or higher)
Measures of Success
- Reduction in P1/P2 incident duration and frequency
- Improved MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution)
- Reduced number of stalled or ageing tickets
- Measurable reduction in incident-driven call volume
- Quality and effectiveness of incident dashboards and reporting
- Positive SLT feedback on visibility, control, and communication
- Performance and effectiveness of Application Specialists