Incident Communications Manager

Company Description

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity.

**Job Description**:
The Communication Manager is a member of a multi-disciplined Global Operations Center team responsible for providing 24x7x365 global monitoring and support of a wide variety of technology platforms, products, and services. The Communication Manager utilizes multiple monitoring tools to ensure the highest level of availability for Experian infrastructure, products and services. The Communication Manager is responsible for internal, business and client communications during the incident lifecycle of high priority incidents.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Keep appropriate stakeholders updated with latest and information on high priority incidents through timely and regular written and verbal communications.
- Strong customer communication skills with the ability to communicate / articulate technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
- Good timekeeping ensuring regular updates provided on restoration of services impacting incidents to both internal stakeholders and clients.
- Ability to tailor and differentiate communications for internal stakeholders and external clients.
- Working closely with technical and customer engagement teams to ensure consistent communication / updates to clients of Experian.
- Work allocation and progress monitoring, and to take corrective measures if necessary.
- Problem resolution or escalation.
- Working closely with the other Shift Leaders and the NOC manager to help set and implement overall NOC team strategy, and to lead in initiatives that improve processes and/or procedures that contribute to performance effectiveness and efficiencies.
- Drive continued improvement in system availability through problem identification and resolution.
- Must be available via cell-phone/pager for necessary coverage off-hours incidents as part of rotation schedule.

**Responsibilities**:

- Create and deliver external content regarding service disruptions
- Draft / Update notifications on service restoration to internal stakeholders and clients of Experian
- Collaborate with technical and customer engagement teams on delivering consistent / regular communications to internal stakeholders and clients of Experian
- Maintain a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of product delivery and operations
- Ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly-evolving team environment
- Ability to develop collaborative relationships with customers, partners, business, and support teams at all levels
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills while working with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, support teams, and architects
- Able to manage relationships with peers and managers as it relates to support and services
- Ability to navigate complexity and create collaborative, cross-functional solutions
- Able to translate complex issues in an understandable, organized way
- Hands-on in conducting root cause analysis & problem solving
- Ability to influence others at all levels of an organization with proven leadership skills
- Ability to remain flexible and adapt to changing priorities with promptness, efficiency and ease
- Ability to use data driven techniques to analyze and interpret data

**Shifts**: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday & alternating Wednesday, 7am - 7pm CT

**Qualifications**:

- Must possess Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree, Computer
- Previous incident management experience required
- Proven track record of working collaboratively to improve the customer’s experience
- Experience in projects related to continuous improvement and process management
- Experience in support and maintenance roles
- Strong communications skills (verbal and written), presentation, and relationship management skills
- Ability to articulate technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
- Stakeholder management.
- Good understanding of the ITIL processes & IT Service management
- Familiarity with ITIL, Foundations certificate a plus but not required.
- Experience working in a customer-centric environment
- Driven and passionate for IT service delivery
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to organize resources across different teams to dr