IT Service Management Manager – Incident, Problem & Change Management

Location: Bucharest, Romania

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The ITSM Manager (Incident, Problem & Change Manager) is an operational role responsible for the execution, coordination and monitoring of Incident, Problem and Change Management activities across DGDI/Europe. In addition to operational responsibilities, the ITSM Manager plays a key role in process convergence, acting as an ambassador of Group-defined ITSM processes and contributing to the alignment between Group standards and local IT practices. The ITSM Manager operates within Group-defined processes and contributes to their continuous improvement through field feedback and structured gap analysis.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As Incident Manager

• Managing and controlling the incident backlog:
• Reviewing open incidents on a daily basis
• Verifying categorization, impact and priority
• Reassessing priorities based on business impact

Ensuring Incident Management process execution:

• Verifying compliance with workflows, SLAs and escalation rules
• Detecting and addressing deviations from Group processes

Coordinating incident resolution activities:

• Following up and relaunching technical teams and providers
• Ensuring clear ownership and action tracking
• Maintaining momentum on complex or long-running incidents

Managing and coordinating Major Incidents:

• Taking operational leadership during critical incidents
• Coordinating multiple teams and providers under pressure
• Structuring clear, concise and factual executive communications
• Translating technical situations into business-oriented messages
• Producing executive updates and first-level incident reports
• Establishing and tracking action plans
• Leading or contributing to post-incident reviews (RETEX)

As Problem Manager

Managing the problem backlog:

• Identifying problems based on incident trends and major incidents
• Ensuring problems are correctly logged, prioritized and owned

Driving root cause analysis (RCA):

• Organizing and facilitating RCA sessions
• Ensuring analyses are factual, structured and actionable

Defining and tracking corrective and preventive actions:

• Ensuring actions are clearly defined, owned and tracked
• Following implementation and effectiveness
• Escalating delays or lack of ownership

Ensuring alignment with Incident and Change Management:

• Ensuring recurring incidents lead to problem records
• Ensuring corrective actions are implemented through controlled changes

As a Change Enablement Manager

Managing and controlling the change backlog:

• Reviewing standard, normal and emergency changes
• Verifying completeness, risk assessment and impact analysis
• Challenging insufficiently prepared or high-risk changes
• Ensuring rollback plans are defined and realistic

Ensuring Change Management process execution:

• Enforcing approval workflows and governance rules
• Monitoring emergency change usage

Coordinating change governance:

• Preparing, organizing and facilitating CAB / eCAB sessions
• Ensuring appropriate stakeholder involvement
• Providing visibility on upcoming changes and risk

Following change execution:

• Tracking implementation and closure
• Investigating failed or disruptive changes

Ensuring post-change activities:

• Triggering post-implementation reviews when required
• Identifying changes causing incidents organize PIR
• Follow-up the actions plan defined

Process Reporting & Performance Monitoring:

• Collecting and consolidating Incident, Change and Problem data in support to FR teams
• Ensuring data quality and consistency in ITSM tools
• Producing regular reporting on: Incident volumes, backlogs and resolution times; Major Incident of the period (Exec report);
• Problem backlog and RCA quality; Change volumes, success rates and emergency changes;
• Providing actionable insights to support: Process maturity improvement; Management and executive reporting;
• Process Ambassadorship, Gap Identification & Convergence: the SE Manager acts as an ambassador of Group ITSM processes when interacting with other local IT entities.

Promoting and explaining Group-defined Incident, Change and Problem processe (Observing and understanding local IT operational practices and Identifying and documenting gaps between:

• Group ITSM processes
• Local IT ways of working
• Analyzing the causes of these gaps (organizational, tooling, cultural, operational)
• Escalating identified gaps with structured analysis to Group IT Operations Process Owners
• Contributing to process convergence by:
• Proposing pragmatic alignment options
• Supporting local teams during adoption

QUALIFICATION, CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in IT Operations / IT Service Management in International and distributed environments
• Proven hands-on experience in production environments with technical foundation enabling credible interaction with technical teams
• Extensive experience in Major Incident coordination
• Demonstrated experience as Incident / Change/ Problem Manager
• Ability to operate autonomously and take ownership in complex situations and high-pressure situations
• Strong operational coordination and execution skills
• Structured, analytical and pragmatic mindset
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to contribute to process convergence in complex environment
• Due to the nature of the work, a strong command of English is essential; proficiency in French is a strong plus.

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