Senior Incident Manager

Senior Service Management Specialist - Incident Manager Enterprise Incident Management Position Summary The Senior Service Management Specialist leads enterprise incident management activities to ensure timely restoration of critical services and minimize business disruption, financial exposure, and reputational risk. This role coordinates high priority incident response across technology, business, risk, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders while maintaining strong governance, clear communication, and adherence to enterprise service management practices. Key Responsibilities • Lead end to end response for high impact P1 and P2 enterprise incidents, including intake, assessment, escalation, coordination, restoration, and post incident follow up. • Facilitate major incident bridge calls, establish clear ownership, and drive cross functional teams toward timely technical and business recovery. • Serve as the central coordination point for Technology Operations, Risk, Legal, Communications, executive leadership, and other key stakeholders. • Prepare and deliver timely incident communications, executive updates, status summaries, and escalation notices. • Ensure incidents are documented accurately in systems of record, including timelines, decisions, actions, impacts, and recovery milestones. • Enforce incident classification, prioritization, escalation, regulatory, audit, and governance requirements. • Lead post incident reviews, identify lessons learned, and partner with problem management teams to drive root cause remediation and recurrence prevention. • Use incident metrics, trends, and service management data to improve response effectiveness, resilience, automation, and operational maturity. • Support emergency change processes and promote ITIL aligned service management practices in an Agile, fast paced environment. Required Qualifications • 5 or more years of experience in IT Service Management, Incident Management, IT Support, or a related discipline. • Proven experience leading major incident response in a complex enterprise environment. • Experience coordinating technical, business, risk, and executive stakeholders during high pressure operational events. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive level incident communications.

• Hands on experience with ServiceNow or an equivalent ITSM platform.
• Knowledge of ITIL based incident, problem, change, escalation, and service

management practices. • Experience navigating large corporate environments, preferably in a highly regulated industry such as financial services. Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL v3, ITIL 4, or equivalent service management certification.
• Experience managing regulatory, cyber, operational risk, or enterprise

impacting incidents. • Experience improving incident response through automation, observability, reporting, and process optimization. Education and Certifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management, Information Technology, or a related field preferred. • Additional certifications in incident management, risk management, or service management preferred. Hours and Work Schedule Hours per Week: 40 Work Schedule: Monday to Friday Pay Transparency The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $135,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn additional incentive earnings. Actual pay is based on various factors including, but not limited to, the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience. Benefits Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, parental leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs, and generous paid time off exceeding local requirements. [ Equal Employment Opportunity Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability. Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer Job Applicant Data Privacy Policy [ Background Check Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.