The Incident Service Management Lead reports to and supports the Service Delivery Manager in the governance, performance, operational effectiveness, and continual improvement of the service. The role is responsible for the ownership, governance, performance, and operational maturity of the Incident Management, Problem Management, and Service Request Management practices across the service, ensuring they are effectively embedded, measured, governed, and continuously improved to support service excellence, operational resilience, customer satisfaction, and contractual performance obligations.
Acting as the Service Lead for these practices, they will work closely with operational support teams, suppliers, vendors, transport operators, customer-facing support functions, and key stakeholders to drive service quality, operational performance, root cause elimination, and continual service improvement initiatives. The role ensures incidents, problems, and service requests are managed in a consistent, controlled, and efficient manner, delivering positive outcomes for customers, end users, and stakeholders while minimising operational risk and service disruption.
The role supports the Service Delivery Manager during Major Incidents by coordinating technical teams, suppliers, actions, communications, and recovery activities, enabling the Service Delivery Manager to focus on executive communications, customer engagement, stakeholder management, escalation management, and service restoration. The role will also support customer-facing service reviews, operational performance reviews, and the management of service issues impacting customers and end users.
In addition, the role is responsible for driving operational governance, performance reporting, trend analysis, process compliance, knowledge capture, and continual improvement activities to ensure the service remains aligned with business objectives, operational readiness requirements, customer expectations, and industry best practices.