Senior Project Manager - Gaming

Company Description

Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.

Job Description

This is a 6 month FTC with a view to make permanent.

The Senior Gaming Project Manager is a highly varied and pivotal role within the Gaming team. Working across multiple Sports and Gaming brands, you will have responsibilities across the full range business activities business – from planning, to strategy, to business development, to implementation and customer evaluation, the role will be a key support for the Regional Gaming Director and the entire Gaming Leadership Team. You will have excellent business and marketing acumen.

The key purpose of you’re the project manager role is to plan and deliver projects and business change initiatives seamlessly within the Gaming organisation, adding tangible value, ensuring clear objectives adopted following the project lifecycle framework, aligning with our strategic goals and budget priorities.

Working in partnership with the Programme Director, Commercial and Programme/PMO Manager/Project Manager track and report all deliverables in plan, including spend, revenue and agreed business metrics to ensure budget ambitions achieved.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Gaming business to define the scope of strategic projects, gaining stakeholder approval of delivery plans and approach
• Clearly define roles and responsibilities of all functional contributors
• Stand up projects and programmes with the necessary governance framework ensuring decision making forums established to drive forward at pace
• Working with the Gaming leadership team and Programme Director, Commercial ensure clear business cases and do-ability against each initiative completed, including clear demonstration of how this aligns and/or enables delivery of our strategic objectives – using as a method of prioritisation
• Build and embed the PMO playbook, driving consistency through documentation, supported by a meaningful governance framework that enables growth (volume and value)
• Through a customer and people lens, contribute to risk mitigation discussions for project deliverables
• Work to ensure change and transformation impacting our people and customers is purpose and data led, protecting our customers from disruptive change
• Ensure excellent relationships with key interfacing areas, internal and external
• Conduct detailed dependency mapping in support of project delivery roadmap
• Ensure the successful outcomes for each initiative are clear, with KPIs agreed to measure success
• Build engagement and comms plans as required, ensuring buy-in and commitment from our stakeholders, decision makers and key contributors

Govern and deliver the project

• Regularly update all stakeholders as per agreed cadence
• Clearly define roles and responsibilities for each project
• Apply structured methodology and lead programme & business initiative activities
• Setup up project governance ensuring both leadership group as well as senior regional stakeholders are aware of the risks and able to make effective decisions.
• Present transparent reporting and metrics on the performance of the project to enable intervention, removal of obstacles, make priority calls and deliver target outcomes
• Monitor and detect at risk initiatives, producing proposals to being back on plan
• Define a communication plan and set up a meeting cadence for each project
• Build budgets and monitor spend

Business case development and prioritisation:

• Collaborate with the Gaming leadership team to ensure clear business cases are established for each initiative and aligned with PMO central playbook
• Justify the alignment of each initiative with the strategic objectives and use this rationale for prioritisation
• Utilise a structured methodology to assess and prioritise initiatives based on their strategic value and potential impact

Qualifications

• Exceptional change and project management skills gained through formal qualification and/or participation in successfully managing change processes/initiatives
• Excellent planning, time management and communication skills and is expert in project quality management
• Ability to operate across multiple disciplines
• Previous success in delivering against challenging operational objectives
• Financially literate – able to identify financial risks factor and efficiency opportunities
• Excellent understanding of systems, processes and operations in customer facing environments
• Strong meeting management and facilitation skills
• Timely decision-making skills considering the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information
• Understands the importance of communications tailored to each stakeholder’s needs

Additional Information

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Working for us in the Gibraltar, you can expect to receive great benefits like:

• Generous group bonus scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme – matched to 6%
• Ability to buy and sell holiday
• Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
• Additional “It’s Your Game” day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
• Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
• Share save scheme
• Paid subscription to LinkedIn Learning

And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves. 

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values and that's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated. 

We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.