Project Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Playtech's SPORTS unit seeks a Project Manager to own multiple projects, manage diverse deliveries (product enhancements, new features, technical upgrades, data migrations, integrations), and ensure projects meet compliance guidelines. Responsibilities include managing the entire project lifecycle, handling stakeholder expectations, managing 3rd party providers, and effective risk management. A high-level technical understanding of the platform is needed to guide technical projects based on input from the Tech Team/Tech Architects, though technical decision-making is not a primary responsibility. The role involves pre-sales/concept stages, weekly program board attendance, and maintaining accurate project reporting.
Must have:
  • Manage multiple projects
  • Full SDLC experience
  • Stakeholder management
  • 3rd party provider management
  • Project reporting and admin
  • Technical overview knowledge
Good to have:
  • Formal Project Management certification (PMI, PRINCE2, Scrum Master)
  • Online Gaming experience
Perks:
  • Professional and fun team environment
  • Training and knowledge sharing
  • Personal and professional growth
  • Variety in work
  • Active lifestyle and well-being package
  • Work-life balance and flexibility
  • Company events

Job Details

Company Description

Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7,000 employees across 20 countries.

Playtech is the gambling industry's leading technology company delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content, and platform technology across the industry's most popular product verticals, including, casino, live casino, sports betting, virtual sports, bingo and poker. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtech.com & www.playtechpeople.com

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech’s overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech‘s SPORTS unit is looking for a Project Manager with good organisational skills, excellent communication and experience with the full software delivery lifecycle (SDLC).

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Job Description

Your influential mission. You will...

  • Take ownership of multiple projects and manage various types of deliveries, ranging in complexity
  • Deliver key upgrades to an established bespoke product used by all our customers. This includes product enhancements, new features, bespoke software development and technical upgrades.
  • Manage the overall delivery process from concept, right through to launch with key stakeholders.
  • Manage complex data migrations that includes player data, game data, payment data, financial and transactional history from external platforms and 3rd Party systems.
  • Manage internal and external integration projects, ranging from internal back office systems and product integrations, 3rd party wallet integrations and 3rd party platform / software integrations.
  • Deliver key projects to meet the changes in compliance / certification guidelines across multiple jurisdictions and territories.

Qualifications

Components for success. You... 

  • Take ownership of the entire individual project life cycle from inception to deployment and post-deployment support.
  • Develop/maintain technical overview knowledge of Platform – A high level technical understanding of the platform is expected, in order to be able to ask informed questions and guide a technical project based on input of the Tech Team/Tech Architects. Note though the PM role is not expected to make or drive technical decisions/solutions.
  • Concurrently manage multiple projects.
  • Project deliver within Time / Budget and quality assurance.
  • Manage all project and non-project processes that directly or indirectly impact delivery.
  • Manage stakeholder / management expectations.
  • Managing 3rd Party providers / technical teams (both internal and external to Playtech)
  • Effectively manage project scope, issues and risks.
  • Ensure project reporting and admin is up to date and project status and reporting is always accurately maintained.
  • Attend the weekly programme board to discuss project progress, risks and issues.
  • Are involved in pre-sales / concept stages of upcoming projects.

You'll get extra points for... 

  • Formal Project Management certification (PMI, PRINCE2, Scrum Master)
  • Knowledge of or experience within an Online Gaming environment

Thrive in a culture that values...  

  • A professional and fun team environment, where we offer you proper training and knowledge sharing
  • Your personal and professional growth
  • Variety – no day is the same
  • An active lifestyle and provide you with a well-being package
  • Work-life balance, flexibility
  • Fun and engaging company events

Additional Information

SPORTS UNIT 
Playtech Sports specialises in the provision of online betting and gaming software to UK and global service providers. Headquartered in London and founded in 2005, our GenBet product provides operators with a robust and secure central customer management platform onto which any number of products can be added and managed. Sportsbook, Lottery, Pool Betting and Fixed-Odds Games modules allow the operator to tailor their online service whilst a comprehensive back office and reporting suite provides powerful tools for event and market management. Playtech Sports has been a part of Playtech since January 2012, meaning that existing and future customers now benefit from the industry leading GenBet product suite, delivered on Playtech's comprehensive IMS (information management solution). 

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.

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About The Company

Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7300 employees in 19 countries


Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.


We are the pioneers of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution.


The company has won numerous awards including the prestigious Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award 2018 for its Age of the Gods games that includes slots, table games and live casino.


Alongside our own cutting-edge gaming studios and content we license some of the world's most popular brands from Hollywood studios including Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, Paramount, Fox, NBC Universal, MGM and many more.


Playtech Financials operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Our B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Our B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.


If you are an ambitious, creative thinker and would like to work for us we want to hear from you!


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