Summary: The Programme Manager will oversee complex programmes within the betting and gaming industry, focusing on aligning and optimizing initiatives across multiple teams in Product and Technology. This role involves detailed planning, stakeholder collaboration, and addressing organizational challenges to ensure seamless delivery. The position is for a contract lasting between 6 to 12 months and is classified as outside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with Product and Engineering to solve complex business problems that allows the frictionless flow of value to our customers.
• Viewed as an expert across the organisation in managing complex programmes of work that span pillars, domains and sub domains.
• Leads detailed planning to gain alignment of teams, map dependencies and use your network to collaborate and enable seamless delivery.
• Assigned to programmes of work that have a start and an end.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define and refine the strategic direction. Understand overarching business goals and objectives and translate them into actionable initiatives.
• Produces the overall plan and governance framework in collaboration with commercial stakeholders for the programme of work.
• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and organizational roadblocks that hinder teams' progress. Collaborate with various stakeholders to address these challenges, streamline processes, and improve communication and collaboration across all departments.

Key Skills:

• An expert in Project/Programme Management, planning, organising, and overseeing tasks, resources, and timelines to achieve specific objectives and deliver successful outcomes within a defined scope.
• A strong communicator, the ability to share or understand information, ideas and feelings successfully.
• Experience with Outsourcing/third party suppliers.
• Experienced in project and programme finance including budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and decision-making, to support strategic goals.
• Expert in Risk Management, identifies, evaluates and manages risks by developing and implementing risk management strategies, frameworks, policies, procedures and practices.
• Extensive experience in Resources Management, acquires, allocates and manages resources in the most efficient and effective manner.
• Technical Acumen, basic technical understanding to effectively communicate with development teams and understand technical constraints.
• Advanced in Data Analysis, interpreting, cleaning, transforming, and deriving meaningful insights from complex datasets using statistical, computational, and visualization techniques to inform decision-making and drive actionable outcomes.
• Stakeholder Management, organises, monitors and improves relationships with stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of change management, the ability to plan, communicate, implement, and support the smooth transition of individuals and organizations through periods of significant change, ensuring successful adoption and minimal disruption.
• Well-versed in crisis management, being prepared to handle unexpected challenges and crises, such as game launch issues or security breaches, is important for maintaining player trust.
• An advanced understanding of the legal and regulatory aspects of the betting and gaming industry.
• A deep understanding of the betting and gaming industry, including current trends, emerging technologies, and the competitive landscape, is essential.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Stratford

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other