Head of Project Management [011671]

  • Full-time

Company Description

Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a market leader in the gambling and financial trading industries with c.6,400 employees across 24 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. It is the pioneer of omni-channel gambling technology through its integrated platform technology, Playtech ONE. Playtech ONE delivers data driven marketing expertise, single wallet functionality, CRM and responsible gambling solutions across one single platform across product verticals and across retail and online.

Playtech partners with and invests in the leading brands in regulated and newly regulated markets to deliver its data driven gambling technology across the retail and online value chain. Playtech provides its technology on a B2B basis to the industry's leading retail and online operators, land-based casino groups and government sponsored entities such as lotteries. Playtech directly owns and operates Snaitech, the leading sports betting and gaming company in online and retail in Italy. 

 Playtech's Financials Division, Finalto, is a technology leader in the CFD and financial trading industry and operates both on a B2B and B2C basis. www.playtech.com

Job Description

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Head of Project Management to join our Casino product team. The Casino product is the heartbeat of PT and you need to have strong interpersonal skills alongside the ability to work with a wide range of people. On a daily basis you will be working closely with all aspects of the business (product development, account management, development teams and operations).

As the Head of the Project Management team, you will work under the Director of Casino to develop and direct project management operations and strategic planning to meet our organisational goals.

Our project work spans over multi-channel front-end applications (desktop, mobile, retail and tablet platforms) as well as back office tools for configuring and scheduling casino games and managing promotions and financial reporting.

Qualifications

The main duties and responsibilities in this role will include, but are not limited to: 

  • The Head of Project Management is responsible for managing, personally, via direct reports or matrix management, all agreed Casino projects
  • Provide management, leadership, and strategic vision in the management of a team of Project Managers
  • Act as a conduit between senior management within the Product and Development teams
  • You will navigate delivery within a complex environment, with conflicting priorities across Playtech’s various teams.
  • You will develop a detailed understanding of the business’s strategy. Engaging with colleagues to successfully deliver programmes and projects into BAU.
  • Provide a common framework of good-practice standards, tools, templates, and processes for running and governing the portfolio of projects and programmes
  • Managing resource utilisation across the Casino programmes and projects
  • Leading the team in the safe delivery of projects and identify, reducing, and managing all risks (technical, regulatory, commercial or otherwise)
  • Support in providing initial validation of incoming project requests, distinguishing those requiring further information and facilitating this with other internal teams and customers.

Additional Information

Qualifications/Skills

Essential skills  

  • Significant programme and project delivery experience in a leadership and management role
  • A Leader - good at establishing clear directions; sets stretching objectives; distributes the workload appropriately; lays out work in a well-planned and organised manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results and brings out the best in people
  • Experienced in delivery, tracking, and reporting to senior executives on complex portfolio programmes
  • A strong communicator and excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work and influence at C-suite level
  • High standards of both written and oral communication in English
  • Strong teamwork, persuasive/influencing, co-ordination, and planning skills
  • Technical Background (Academic or recent experience)
  • Unbending and able work to tight deadlines under pressure
  • Knowledge of the best practices for project management
  • Big picture thinking and vision
  • Formal Project Management certification (PRINCE2, Scrum Master)

Desirable skills

  • Strong and consistent record of academic achievement
  • Knowledge of or experience within an Online Gaming environment (preferable)
  • Great collaborator. No agenda, collaborates effectively at all levels of the organization
  • Relentless curiosity, questions the status quo, continually asks “why”/”why not” and persistently digs deep into information sources available to them to find the answers
  • Casino Product knowledge.

Behavioural competencies

  • Drives Vision and purpose – Clearly articulates and shows personal commitment to our vision. Create milestones to rally support behind the vision.
  • Communicates effectively – Communicate credibly and effectively across a range of channels and audiences.
  • Collaborates – a team player. Working with others across the organisation to get things done.
  • Being Resilient – confident under pressure. Can handle and manages crises effectively whilst maintaining a positive attitude despite adversity.
  • Develop talent - Places a high priority on developing and empowering others through coaching, feedback, exposure, delegation and stretch assignments. Aligns employee career development goals with organisational objectives.
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