Project Manager - Betfair International

About Betfair Romania Development​:

Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.

Our Values:

The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.

Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact

Role Overview:

As a Project Manager, you will work closely with the wider team to lead on the delivery of a multitude of initiatives from simple ticket requests, right up to bigger country launches and projects spanning various tribes. Amongst other things this will involve coordinating deliverables and dependencies across our tribe’s UKI, Porto and Cluj locations as well as teams, which expand into the wider global Flutter organisation.

The Betfair teams have built an exciting new Sportsbook which we launched on Mobile Web in 2022. This is just the first step on a far bigger journey to both enhance the new product while rolling it out to replace our old legacy Sportsbook on other devices and in the remaining territories we operate in.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Be part of a team which includes Product Managers and Business Analysts

• Work closely with Delivery Teams across UKI and International

• Contribute back to the Divisional Programme community, sharing your knowledge, experience, and wisdom

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer initiatives, leading each of the stages through early discovery, planning, build and land

• Work with Product and Technology to ensure plans are complete, accurate, up to date and communicated

• Set up and govern well defined communication channels

• Govern migration risks ensuring these are owned, managed and communicated appropriately

• Align the many contributing product development teams through strong dependency management

• Support your teams and colleagues, working within your network to help unblock impediments

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:

• An experienced IT professional with a background in Project Management

• A self-motivated individual who is highly organised, driven and can work independently as well as part of a team

• You will have the ability to build strong working relationships both internal and external to the tribe, throughout all levels of the organisation

• You will have exceptional time and people management skills, technical astuteness, and strong attention to detail

• Most of all you will be open, approachable, and work well within a team environment

• Previous experience of delivering large projects within an agile framework will be highly beneficial

• Experience using tooling such as JIRA, Confluence, Miro, SharePoint and Slack, will be highly desirable

• You’ll need strong communication skills, be a clear, adaptable and confident communicator being concise, both in written and in verbal communications

• You will have excellent planning techniques, bringing together wide and diverse groups to produce accurate and achievable timelines which include key milestones and checkpoints