Project Manager (ftc)

Company Description

We're Entain.  Powered by our very own technology and building products that push boundaries, Entain is home to a global family of more than 30+ well-known brands and over 29,000 people, but we all play for the same team. When we win, we win together. 
 
Our vision is to be the world number one in betting, gaming and interactive entertainment by bringing moments of excitement into people's lives.  We will achieve this through our focus on sustainability and growth, driving change in the fast-paced world of entertainment. 



Job Description

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

Establish efficient project governance enabling effective planning and execution, identify and mitigate risks and impacts to strategic objectives, shaping project plans that contribute to the overall success of the Core business. 

Track and communicate delivery progress and success of your projects and initiatives across the team and regularly with your Stakeholders and key contributors.  

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

Lead and manage delivery of projects, building on best practice ways of working, showcasing execution/delivery skills and techniques across team. 

• Collaborate with the 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 leadership team and heads of programme management 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 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 
• Interpersonal and stakeholder management skills at all levels 
• Previous success in delivering against challenging operational objectives 
• Highly collaborative and results driven 
• 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 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.