Planet is a leading technology company transforming payments by putting customer experience first.
We offer integrated solutions that include payment processing, VAT refunds, dynamic currency conversion, and management services for merchants in the Retail and Hospitality sectors worldwide.In recent years, we have experienced significant growth, expanding our services and global presence.
With strong private equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we have the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisitions.Our mission is to create a world of connected commerce where payments are simple, secure, and seamless, enabling our partners to deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.
**Role Overview:**We are seeking an experienced **Major Incident Management SDM** with deep ITIL expertise and a proven track record in managing critical incidents in financial services environments.
This role is responsible for leading our ITSM Major Incident function consisting of internal and external teams.The successful candidate will be responsible for leading maintaining service continuity, minimising business disruption, and ensuring high availability of key systems in our 24/7 online regulated payment environment.
You will act as the bridge between technical teams, executive stakeholders, and service management functions during high-pressure events, driving service recovery and ensuring accurate timely business impact assessment are provided.
**Major Incident Management (ITSM):*** Act as the single point of accountability for all major incidents affecting business-critical services.
* Serve as the **Incident Commander** for all Priority 1 (P1) and high-severity (P2) incidents affecting critical systems, ensuring timely triage, escalation, resolution, and stakeholder communication (working with the ITSM communication team).
* Lead the **Major Incident lifecycle**: identification, impact assessment, coordination of response teams, root cause capture, and incident closure.
* Lead real-time war rooms, driving cross-functional teams to resolve incidents quickly and effectively.
* Deliver structured, risk-aware **communications to executive stakeholders**, including business leadership, compliance, and client-facing teams.
* Ensure accurate and timely documentation of incidents in ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow), and facilitate **Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs)** to drive remediation and service improvement.
* Ensure adherence to ITIL best practices for Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
* Monitor and report on incident KPIs, including MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve), SLA compliance, and service availability.
* Maintain readiness for regulatory audits, including **compliance with PCI-DSS, DORA, GDPR, ACPR or ISO ******* where applicable.
**Governance & Continuous Improvement:*** Maintain a structured MIM framework aligned to **ITIL v4 and operational resilience principles**.
* Partner with Problem Management, Change Management, and Risk & Compliance to identify systemic issues and ensure closed-loop resolution.
* Continuously improve the major incident management process, leveraging ITIL CSI (Continual Service Improvement).
* Report on MIM performance, trends, and risks to senior IT and business leadership.
* Participate in business continuity, disaster recovery (DR), and resiliency planning and testing.
**Required Qualifications:*** Bachelor's degree in information technology, Business, or related field.
* 8–10 years of experience in IT operations, service management, incident response, with at least 5+ years in a MIM role.
* Proven track record in **Major Incident Management**, preferably in a 24/7 regulated environment such as **financial services**.
* Deep understanding of **ITIL v3/v4**; ITIL Foundation required, Intermediate/Managing Professional preferred.
* Experience working with monitoring and ITSM tools such as **Coralogix** **ServiceNow, Splunk, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, or BMC Remedy**.
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience briefing senior leadership during live incidents.
**Preferred Qualifications:*** Experience managing a 24/7 Major Incident Management function* Familiarity with cloud operations (AWS, Azure), hybrid environments, or DevOps support models.
* Background in **cybersecurity incident handling** is a plus.
* Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., **PCI-DSS, DORA, GDPR, ACPR**) relevant to incident governance and business continuity.
**Key Competencies:*** Calm, authoritative decision-making under pressure* Real-time coordination and communication* Incident command and stakeholder engagement* Operational leadership and team oversight* Risk and impact awareness in regulated environments* Process orientation with continuous improvement mindset**Why Planet:**Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce.
We would love to hear from you – Apply now.At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.
**Company Background**Planet provides integrated software, payment and technology solutions for its customers in the Hospitality and Retail sectors and worldwide via a network of global Financial Services Partners.Founded over 35 years ago, we have evolved our services, delivering an innovative digital commerce platform that puts customer experience first.With headquarters in London and around 3,000 expert employees located across six continents we serve customers in over 120 markets.
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