Senior Major Incident Manager

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What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and supporting the Major Incident Management team.
• Ensuring all incidents progress through to resolution within SLAs.
• Managing escalations when required. Delivering executive summaries during P1 incidents.
• Producing weekly and monthly MI reporting.
• Updating and maintaining process documentation.
• Driving continuous improvement across the MIM function.
• Providing leadership, mentoring, and coaching.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams.
• Escalating issues to the Head of Major Incident Management.
• Managing team performance and reporting quality.
• Identifying future skills requirements.
• Expanding knowledge across Capita services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in major incident management in complex environments.
• Competent in delivering executive summaries during P1 incidents.
• Strong background in ITIL‑aligned Incident Management.
• Experience supporting both public‑sector and private‑sector clients.
• Knowledge of ITSM tools.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 including SharePoint and Teams.
• Understanding of incident and problem management interaction.
• ITIL awareness.

You Will Also Have

• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to stay calm and make decisions under pressure.
• Strong leadership and people‑management.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement.
• Analytical problem‑solving skills.
• Continuous‑improvement mindset.

How This Role aligns with Capita’s Values

Customer First Always

Ensuring timely resolution of incidents within SLA.

Fearless Innovation

Driving continuous improvement.

Achieve Together

Leading, mentoring, and coaching the team.

Everyone is Valued

Creating a supportive environment during critical incidents.

Join Capita – Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Capita is a dynamic leader in consulting and digital services, helping some of the UK’s most recognized organisations transform and thrive. We use cutting-edge technology and fearless innovation to create smarter, more efficient solutions that make a real difference.     Our work spans diverse sectors—government, healthcare, education, and finance—offering you the chance to contribute to projects that impact millions of lives. At Capita, you’ll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team that values creativity, growth, and inclusion.

We’re committed to your development and success, providing opportunities to learn, progress, and shape better outcomes for customers and communities. If you’re ready to make an impact and grow your career, Capita is the place for you.    Check out our websitewww.capita.com

What’s in it for you?

• 💻 Office based Belfast
• 💰 CompetitiveSalary - on call allowance
• 🌴 23 days’ holiday, rising to 27 (pro rata) – plus the option to buy more after qualifying period
• ❤️ Paid volunteering day with a charity of your choice
• 🍼 Generous family leave policies – including 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
• 🚴‍♀️ Cycle2Work scheme, pension, life assurance, and more

🤝 Customer first, always​🧑‍💻 Fearless innovation​✅ Achieve together​💙 Everyone is valued

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. As part of our strategic goals, we are focused on accelerating gender and ethnic representation in leadership roles. We warmly encourage applications from women and individuals from Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please emailreasonableadjustments@capita.com and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.

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