How do you make our customers happy?
Every smooth delivery starts with flawless logistics. From warehouse operations to carrier integrations, countless systems work together to serve millions of customers and partners. When a major outage occurs, you remain calm and lead the Tech incident response from start to finish. Beyond incident response, you drive reliability improvements by implementing ITSM and SRE practices and coaching teams to build resilience into every link of our logistics chain, so every delivery promise becomes reality.
At bol, we believe in making life easier for our customers and partners while building a sustainable and inclusive future. In this role, you help us deliver on that promise by ensuring our logistics backbone runs smoothly because reliability is the foundation of trust.
The biggest challenge
Bol has evolved from a traditional online store into a personalized platform tailored to our local market. Our tech organization continuously innovates to deliver effortless shopping experiences. With this fast-paced innovation comes the inevitability of incidents. In logistics, the stakes are even higher: our Warehouse Management System and fulfillment processes must run flawlessly to keep millions of products moving across multiple warehouses and carriers.
Your challenge? Step in when critical systems fail, lead major incidents with confidence, and embed reliability practices across the organization. You will balance operational leadership with hands-on engagement with technical teams, using available insights and collaboration to accelerate recovery and strengthen reliability.
What you’ll do as Incident & Service Delivery Manager?
In a nutshell, SDMs are the operational conscience of our retail tech platform. As an SDM, your primary responsibility is to manage major incidents and lead reliability initiatives, taking ownership end-to-end and growing in scope and complexity as your experience deepens.
This is not just a coordination role: you will actively engage with the technical landscape, building an understanding of system behavior and operational signals to accelerate incident resolution. If you have affinity with tooling or automation, you can contribute to automation for ITSM processes, build dashboards for operational visibility, and collaborate closely with engineers to embed reliability into our systems.
This role focuses on the Core Logistics and Core Warehousing areas, where reliability and operational excellence are critical to keeping our logistics backbone running smoothly.
You will:
Lead major incidents: Step up as Incident Manager during high-impact outages, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring rapid recovery.
Coach and enable: Train colleagues in Incident Management, ITSM, and reliability culture, partnering with Functional Application Management teams to strengthen their incident response capabilities and foster best practices.
Actively engage in complex incidents: Help pinpoint technical issues and guide engineers toward resolution, levering insights from deployments, architecture, and metrics to accelerate resolution, without needing to engineer the solution yourself.
Drive reliability projects: Implement SRE practices and lead initiatives to improve ITSM processes.
Automate and innovate: If you have affinity with automation or tooling, you can help automating incident workflows and ITSM processes and develop dashboards and applications to enhance operational reporting and visibility.
Collaborate across domains: Act as the contact point for operational concerns, season readiness, audits, and major infrastructure changes.
Participate in standby rotation: Join the Manager-on-Duty schedule for critical incident response outside office hours.
3 reasons why this is (not) for you
Switch to find out
-
Take me by the hand, darling!
You prefer well-defined tasks and lots of guidance: taking initiative is risky
-
Not much of an analyst
You lack analytical skills: quickly grasping the complexity of systems is not your forte.
-
Second mover
When something happens, you analyze the cause, effect, and the meaning of life for days before taking action. As our first line of defense in the event of major IT incidents, that approach isn’t ideal.
+
Diversity energizes
You are energized by a diverse role that includes SRE, Incident Management, Project Management, and ITSM responsibilities.
+
Calm in the chaos
This is for someone who stays calm when things get chaotic and loves turning outages into opportunities for improvement. If impact motivates you, you’ll feel right at home here.
+
Curiously autonomous
You are perennially curious, always looking for improvement opportunities, and driven by a ‘make them happen’ attitude.
Where you’ll work
You join an enthusiastic and motivated Reliability & Service Management team consisting of Site Reliability Engineers and fellow SDMs. You collaborate closely with product teams and stakeholders across domains and coach Functional Application Management teams to strengthen their incident response practices.
Our team sparks energy by tackling complex challenges together, celebrating wins, and learning from setbacks. If you love the idea of blending operational excellence with innovation and want to make a tangible impact on millions of customers, this is your place.
Perks of having a blue heart
Discover all perks
Bonus
The bonus is calculated at the end of the year and we always end the year with a fun party!
Flexible working
We bring the best of both worlds together by working 50% at the office and 50% at home. This way, we find a balance between organisational and individual needs.
On and off
At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 29 days of vacation.
The internal application process
So you’ve found an exciting opportunity within bol! Here’s what happens next:
Your application
We carefully review your application and will get back to you soon to let you know if we’re moving forward. We aim to get in touch with you as soon as possible.
First contact
If you're invited to an interview, we’ll reach out to schedule a meeting. This is also your chance to ask any questions you may have about the role, the team, or the process.
The interview
In this conversation, we’ll get to know each other better. We’ll discuss your experience, skills, and how you contribute to our shared mission. We’ll also explore whether the role aligns with your ambitions and how you embody bol’s Leadership Behaviours. Depending on the role, a second interview may follow.
Is it a match?
If we both feel it’s the right fit, we’ll make you an offer and discuss the next steps. Time to start your next chapter at bol!
Any questions?
I'm Sam Surachno, Recruiter at bol. Anything I can help you with regarding the Incident & Service Delivery Manager vacancy?
Get in touch!
I'm good
