Senior Project Manager

at  Betfred

ABOUT US

Our mission is to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale and we need the very best Tech talent to help us achieve this.
We recently migrated all of our customers onto our very own proprietary platform - so it’s an exciting time to join us. With the help of our new platform, we’re able to pioneer new products and drive more advanced, creative technologies. The result? Unrivalled experiences for millions of customers worldwide.
Betfred’s Technology department is driven by innovation, and you’ll be at the heart of unlocking our new platform’s potential. So, if you want to help shape the future of betting and gaming, then it’s to time to join us.

JOB PURPOSE

To lead the delivery of projects across multiple workstreams from inception to completion. You should demonstrate effective leadership and line management skills by setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback and coaching, promoting teamwork and collaboration, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring project goals are achieved within budget and timeline constraints.
As a successful Senior Project Manager, you will showcase a continuous improvement mentality in all that you do to ensure effective results for the organisation. You will have significant experience working with both agile and waterfall project teams across different disciplines to produce results in a timely manner.
You will work closely with your Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and wider Project Manager peers to plan and agree on your deliverables. As a Senior Project Manager, you will ensure the timescales are clearly estimated and documented.
You will use your excellent communication skills to provide regular, timely updates on your project plans, deliverables, and actuals to your business stakeholders. You will ensure they are well consulted and informed throughout the delivery process to guarantee positive business impacts and end-to-end delivery of work.
Your goal will be to ensure that the projects deliver the desirable outcomes for our organisation.

JOB DUTIES

• Maintain Overarching Plan: Be responsible for maintaining the overarching plan across multiple workstreams, aligning priorities with your product counterpart.
• High-Quality Planning and Management: Ensure high-quality planning and management of milestones.
• Project Governance: Determine the appropriate level of project governance required for your projects, which will vary in complexity and size. Continually evaluate and suggest improvements to processes and practices.
• Line Management: Be comfortable providing line management to 2-3 junior members of the Delivery team if required including weekly 1-2-1s and personal development plans.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive change through continuous improvements from project retrospectives and overall PMO governance.
• Dependency Management: Proactively identify cross-project and cross-team dependencies. Collaborate with the Programme Manager and other Project Managers to manage these effectively. Collaboration will be part of your mantra, and you will help drive this across the organization.
• Leadership in Change and Risk Management: Demonstrate and lead by example in effective change, risk, and resource management within your workstreams, aligning with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and wider Project Managers where appropriate.
• Communication and Reporting: Deliver clear communication and reporting on project status to your departmental leadership team and Betfred leadership team members.
• Stakeholder Relationships: Define and document the most appropriate strategy to build and maintain excellent relationships with business stakeholders and third parties. We work with several high-profile suppliers who move at a fast pace in this industry; therefore, strong relationships are key to delivering results.