Project Manager - Pokerstars (12 Months), Hybrid

Project Manager

About Flutter Entertainment:

Flutter is a FTSE 40 global leader in sports betting and gaming with annual revenues of over £4bn. Its strong and diverse portfolio of market-leading brands and best-in-class products provides its 13 million customers excitement and entertainment in a safe and responsible way. Brands include Paddy Power, Sky Betting and Gaming, Betfair, Sportsbet, Foxbet, FanDuel, and PokerStars.

Our vision for global technology is to achieve competitive advantage for our divisions by collaborating on areas of technology that benefit from our global scale, while maintaining divisional autonomy in other areas.

Job Description

The PokerStars Project Manager will play a key role in by managing the successful delivery of cross tribe initiatives through effective planning, risk management, and communication.  This role reports to the PokerStars Head of Delivery & Portfolio and involves working closely alongside colleagues across technology, product, commercial, and other multiple Business domains, who are located at a number of Flutter offices, including Toronto, Sofia, Leeds, Dublin and Cluj.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate cross-location, cross-function teams to deliver projects and initiatives.
• Create and ensure project plans are achievable, as well as identifies key dependencies within and external to the project.
• Monitor the progress of multiple concurrent projects and delivery flows and make agile adjustments to ensure successful completion.
• Identifies, tracks, and manages initiative risks and issues through to closure – ensures senior stakeholders are informed of progress and resolution.
• Adhere to Project Management frameworks (including the Product Creation Process) and best practices.
• Provide timely status reports to management; proactively communicate any delays or blockers.
• Relentlessly drive results and resilient when the initiative faces setbacks; resolve issues and provide the team with resolution and encouragement.
• Learns quickly when faced with new, unfamiliar, and changing situations; promotes continuous learning from both successes and failures, and shares lessons learned.

Skills and Capabilities:

• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills, personal accountability, and ability to plan and multitask effectively.
• Experience working with various stakeholders with the ability to effectively lead initiatives and coordinate between teams to deliver on a common goal and manage expectations.
• Communicate effectively and credibly across a wide range of channels with senior stakeholders, ability to simplify complex issues/risks/plans with non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of software development process in large-scale e-commerce environment.
• Critical analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Deep understanding and experience with Agile methodologies.

• PM certification and/or project management experience with software/IT projects.
• Experience with Confluence, JIRA, and other development tools is an asset.

What can you expect:

• 25 days of annual leave
• Sharesave scheme
• „Flexible Benefits” of your choice
• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments)
• Free parking
• Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy'
• Working from home options

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective role within the company.