Incident Manager

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

1. 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

2. 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

1. 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

2. 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

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

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

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