Manager Major Incident & Problem Management

Global Medical Response•Denver, CO

4d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Manager to own the execution and continued maturity of two critical IT Service Management practices, Major Incident & Problem Management. This role leads the response to all enterprise Priority 1 incidents, coordinates rapid restoration of business services, and ensures leaders and stakeholders receive timely, accurate, and business-focused communications. Beyond active incident response, this position sets the strategic direction for Major Incident and Problem Management. The role provides functional, dotted-line leadership to the existing MSP (Managed Service Provider) Outage Coordinators and Problem Analyst, establishes consistent operating standards, drives accountability for root-cause and corrective-action work, and uses operational insights to reduce repeat incidents and improve service reliability. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can remain composed during high-impact events, bring structure to ambiguity, influence teams without relying on direct authority, and translate technical conditions into clear business impact and decisions.

Requirements

5+ years of progressive experience in IT Service Management, service operations, incident management, problem management, or a related enterprise technology function.
Demonstrated experience leading high-severity incidents in a complex, multi-team environment with material business impact.
Experience designing, maturing, or governing Major Incident and Problem Management processes, not only executing individual cases.
Experience leading internal teams, managed-service providers, or matrixed resources through influence and clearly defined accountability.
Experience presenting incident status, risk, root cause, and corrective-action progress to senior technology and business leaders.
Strong working knowledge of ITIL practices, particularly Incident Management, Major Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Enablement, Configuration Management, Knowledge Management, and Service Level Management.
Practical experience with an enterprise ITSM platform; ServiceNow experience is strongly preferred.
Ability to understand complex application, infrastructure, network, cloud, integration, and vendor dependencies sufficiently to lead restoration and challenge assumptions.
Ability to use incident and problem data to identify trends, quantify operational risk, and prioritize improvement opportunities.
Comfort with on-call or after-hours engagement when enterprise P1 incidents require leadership.
Calm, decisive, and highly organized during fast-moving, high-pressure events.
Exceptional facilitation skills with the ability to maintain urgency without creating noise or confusion.
Clear writer and communicator who can translate technical detail into business impact, decisions, risks, and next steps.
Strong judgment, ownership, follow-through, and willingness to escalate when service restoration or corrective action is at risk.
Collaborative and credible with technical teams, business stakeholders, executives, and external partners.
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

ITIL 4 or 5 Foundation; ITIL Practice Manager, Monitor, Support and Fulfil, or equivalent advanced ITSM certification.
ServiceNow Certified System Administrator, Certified Implementation Specialist - IT Service Management, or equivalent platform experience.
Relevant incident command, problem analysis, reliability, or project leadership certification.

Responsibilities

Own and lead the end-to-end response for all enterprise P1 incidents, from declaration and bridge activation through service restoration, stakeholder transition, and formal closure.
Establish command and control during major incidents by clarifying roles, driving urgency, maintaining decision discipline, and ensuring the right technical and business resources are engaged.
Facilitate incident bridges, maintain focus on restoration, remove coordination obstacles, and escalate risks or resource gaps to technology leadership.
Ensure business impact, scope, workarounds, recovery progress, and restoration status are validated before they are communicated.
Coordinate executive, technology, and business communications using clear, concise, and audience-appropriate messaging.
Lead post-incident reviews and confirm that key decisions, timelines, lessons learned, and follow-up actions are documented.
Own the enterprise Problem Management practice, including intake, prioritization, investigation governance, known-error discipline, and closure criteria.
Ensure significant and recurring incidents are evaluated for problem records and that root-cause analysis is completed with appropriate rigor.
Drive accountable corrective and preventive actions with named owners, target dates, evidence of completion, and risk-based escalation for overdue work.
Partner with engineering, infrastructure, application, vendor, and service-owner teams to eliminate systemic causes and reduce recurrence.
Identify patterns across incidents, problems, changes, monitoring events, and service dependencies to inform reliability priorities.
Provide dotted-line leadership, operating direction, coaching, and quality oversight for MSP provided Outage Coordinators and the Problem Analyst.
Define role expectations, coverage models, escalation paths, facilitation standards, documentation requirements, and communication quality controls.
Conduct case reviews and targeted coaching to build consistency, confidence, and sound judgment across the team.
Coordinate workload and coverage with internal leaders and vendor management while maintaining clear accountability for practice outcomes.
Serve as the escalation point for complex incidents, stalled investigations, unresolved ownership, and process exceptions.
Develop and maintain the multi-year strategy, roadmap, operating model, policies, procedures, playbooks, and maturity plan for Major Incident and Problem Management.
Establish governance forums and performance reviews that focus on outcomes, risks, recurring failure themes, corrective-action health, and improvement priorities.
Define and monitor meaningful measures such as restoration performance, communication timeliness and quality, recurrence, root-cause completion, action aging, and business impact.
Identify opportunities to automate workflows, notifications, evidence capture, reporting, and handoffs across ITSM systems and adjacent platforms.
Align the practices with IT Service Management standards and integrate them with Change, Configuration, Knowledge, Event, Service Level, and Continuity Management.
Create training and simulation exercises that strengthen incident leadership, technical response, business-impact assessment, and executive communication.