Dirección📍Location: Guadalajara (hybrid)
📌Strong English interpersonal skills required
About the AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At Astra Zeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to work!
Job Description
The role of Major Incident Manager is to work as part of a regional team of IT professionals focused on AZ IT service continuity through use of technologies providing observability, proactive monitoring and alerting to manage the health and availability of the IT infrastructure, applications and services. The team will work with the tools, data and alerts to prevent the occurrence of unplanned outages and spot anomalies with the aim of taking preventative action or instigate speedy investigation to minimize business disruption. For their shift window, as part of a 24/7/365 service, they will support all priority incident investigations to appropriate processes and standards, they will also support the accurate handover to the next shift. The role holder will remain compliant with processes of Incident, Major Incident, Event and Problem Management during and post the incident investigations including bridge calls.
Accountabilities
The Major Incident Manager will be supporting the ‘run’ of the daily service in the Command Centre areas,including:
Service Operations: From shift handover support the Service Operations Manager with the daily running of the Command Centre Service ensuring that events captured via monitoring tools and processes are analyzed to determine criticality of the issue and then taken forward. Ensure thorough analysis of all incoming priority incidents from Service Desks and that all required information is captured from CMDB and other sources to support speedier resolution. Support the priority incident bridge calls and any in-flight incidents that span across shift-windows, sharing all relevant knowledge and updates during the handover to ensure the resolution continues at pace.
Major Incident: support the Service Operations Manager and Regional MIM Lead during any ‘war room’ engagements until service returns to normal, including shift handoffs as necessary. Ensure all information is available, accurate, shared and recorded in for ownership of resolution including vendors.
Communications: support the Service Operations Manager with the dissemination of communications according to process for service-impacting events. Ensure that there is awareness as relevant across business technology groups and/or site IT technical teams, prepare any information needed for daily ‘pulse’ calls.
Service Management: Adhere to the ITSM processes Incident, Major Incident, Event management. Support the Command Centre Team in ensuring all IT personnel, including those in Marketing Companies, are following processes per established SOP’s as part of any incident investigation.
Technologies: Use monitoring and alerting tools daily and analyze alerts to determine criticality and response required.
Continuous Service Improvement: supporting the Command Centre Team Leads to identify any areas within our own processes and day-to-day run of Command Centre for improvement or automation.
Collaboration: ensure open, honest and productive collaboration through matrix teams in ETS.
Team / Location / Stakeholders
The Major Incident Manager will be a member of a Command Centre Regional Team and reports to the Regional Major incident management lead.
The Command Centre service is 24x7x365 in a shift pattern to ‘follow-the-sun’ of a given business day and may require some unsociable hours of work during critical issue management and handovers, predominantly EMEA hours.
The key stakeholders for this role are:
o Command Centre Director & Regional MIM Leads
o Global Service/Application Owners
o Remote Channel Service Leads e.g. Service Desks
o Business Technology Gr
Requirements
- Fluent in English written and spoken.
- 5-8 years of minimum experience, working in a IT Services/support organisation in Incident, change or problem.
- management roles.
- ITIL Foundation level knowledge, hands on experience in handling Critical/Major Incident Management
- Excellent stake holder management, experience in handling/chairing P1 bridge calls.
- Customer focused and able to respond quickly to situations to support global teams and vendors.
- Attention to detail and able to assimilate information and proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to analyse information, probe the right questions and reach a conclusion sometimes under pressure.
- Experience in managing issues and preventing escalations as much as possible.
- Experience of use of Command Centre technology solutions, including ServiceNow or similar ITSM Toolset.
- Ability to be open, honest and support a collaborative team environment.
- Experience in understanding business impact, urgency, and priority.
- Strong team player.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our outstanding and bold world.
AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.
Date Posted
05-mar-2024Closing Date
19-may-2024AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
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