Senior Major Incident Manager

7 days ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Royal London Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Job Title: Senior Major Incident Manager
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Job Summary:
We are hiring a Senior Major Incident Manager to join our Group Technology and Operations (COO) team, specifically within the Major Incident Command Centre. This role is crucial for overseeing and coordinating responses to significant incidents affecting technology, workplace, and business operations.

The Senior Major Incident Manager will play a leading role in ensuring major incidents are managed according to the standards and protocols of the Major Incident Command Centre. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our purpose of helping build financial resilience, moving fairly to a sustainable world, and strengthening the mutual choice for customers .

About the Role:

  • Oversee and coordinate responses to major incidents affecting technology, workplace, and business operations.
  • Ensure major incidents are managed to the standards and protocols of the Command Centre.
  • Develop and establish response capabilities and frameworks and identify opportunities for strategic improvements.
  • Assist and deliver the development and implementation of strategies for Group Incident Management.
  • Build enduring relationships with senior stakeholders to ensure their support and commitment to incident management processes.
  • Develop and deliver training programs to embed best practices across the organisation.
  • Drive continuous improvement through incident review processes and performance metrics.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, reporting, and governance protocols.

About You:

  • Deep understanding of technology and business operations.
  • Solid understanding of the ITIL Framework.
  • Operational knowledge of IT Service Management & Corporate communication tools.
  • Knowledge of data analytics, reporting tools, and methodologies.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Good understanding of corporate IT policies, standards, and procedures.
  • Excellent problem-solving and customer-facing skills in high-pressure situations.
  • Ability to lead lifecycle of incidents to a high standard of quality and behaviour.
  • Effective stakeholder management at a senior level.
  • Ability to manage third-party supplier incidents and disruptions.

About Royal London
We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits.

Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging
We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.

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