Incident Manager at Sanlam

The Role

Under general direction, assesses complex situations that involve greatest risk. Provides guidance and assistance to subordinate Underwriters. Within company guidelines, approves or denies applications on own discretion. Selects and accepts major risks on behalf of the company, evaluating proposals rather than mechanistic assessment. May supervise underwriting staff. These responsibilities may be applicable across all industries and disciplines.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Facilitate the recovery of all P1/P2 incidents with appropriate reporting and notifications to key Stakeholders
• Manage persistent incidents from Trend analysis and or Management Escalations
• Proactively manage incidents to satisfactory resolution in a timely manner, ensuring minimal business impact, and initiate escalation procedure as appropriate
• Understand and appreciate the impact of incidents on the various GTI Clients’ Business, and/or Business SLA’s allowing for prioritisation and direction
• Manage Post Mortems for all major incidents to a satisfactory conclusion
• Continuous improvement of the Major Incident Management Process
• Keep Service Desk informed of progress on Major incidents and potential workarounds
• Represent GTI in Weekly Report Back Meetings with the Client
• Chair Daily Major Incidents Meeting attended by Third Party Vendor as well as Internal Service Support Teams
• Daily Reporting
• Weekly and Monthly Reporting if required
• Schedule, Facilitate and Chair Ad Hoc task team meetings to ensure that Major/Re-occurring incidents are restored as soon as possible and that the root cause identified and resolved
• Provide input for Monthly MIS Reporting
• Member of Change Approval Board and approval of Emergency Changes
• Quarterly operational incident reporting as input to the Risk Report
• Review and continuous improvement of the GTI Incident Management process
• Trending of re-occurring incidents and assist with the implementing of additional controls and or process improvements
• Assist the Service Desk Team Leader with P3 escalations when required
• Assist with the implementation of Quality Improvement initiatives at the Service Desk

Additional Requirements

• IT related Degree or Diploma or/ and a minimum of 3 years relevant IT experience
• ITIL Foundation or/ and Incident Management Practitioners Certification (Recommended)
• 3 Years IT Experience
• Some experience in Incident Management role will be to your advantage
• A proven track record of experience in the ITIL disciplines
• Experience in working with multiple Service Providers and Technologies
• Excellent understanding of ITIL and ITIL Governance
• Knowledge of one of more of GTI’s Clients Business and Systems will be an advantag

Knowledge And Skills

• Profitable Underwriting
• Client service (complaints/queries/inbestigations/advice)
• Coaching, training and quality management
• Reporting and adhoc meetings