WHO ARE WE
We’re Entain. Our vision is to be the world leader in sports betting and gaming entertainment by creating the most exciting and trusted experience for our customers, revolutionising the gambling space as we go. We're home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands, and with a focus on sustainability and growth, we will transform our sector for our players, for ourselves and for the good of entertainment. It’s a safe bet that the next chapter of the Entain story is going to be epic on a truly global scale. Want to know more? Click here for a short video.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
We offer a competitive industry salary plus a generous annual company bonus. Other benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension scheme (matched up to 6%), private healthcare, a free subscription to the wellbeing app Unmind, our share save scheme and a great selection of professional development and in house training tools for you to use.
That's not all, you will also have access to our bespoke benefits platform that allows you to choose the benefits that are most important to you. Oh, and let’s not forget regular company social events, parties and team building activities!
Our UK offices are based in Stratford in London, Nottingham & Manchester and operate on a hybrid working model. (2+ days in the office). This role is based in our Stratford office.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- The key purpose of this role is to optimise 3rd party spend on IT expenditure across Entain, through the delivery of the identified integration benefit and creation of short/mid/long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business.
- Engage IT community to understand business strategies
- Develop medium and long term IT Strategies, ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend
- As needed, deputise for Head of Technology Procurement
- Using stakeholder and supplier networks, identify continuous improvement and step change opportunities to product and service specifications
- Understand and ensure the implementation of all IT Integration benefits through both personal delivery and matrix engagement with the IT teams
- Financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L basis, interpreting CAPEX, OPEX, depreciation and cash flow
- Identification of global synergies
- Creation of global IT commercial strategy identifying all sources of benefit short/mid and long term
- Lead on Integration and execution benefit delivery opportunities
WHO YOU ARE
- Experience building IT Strategies
- TCO modelling to define optimal cost structures
- Excellent people and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
- Highly organised
Desirable
- Professional qualification such as MCIPS
- Project Management qualification
- IT experience in Infrastructure On Prem, Cloud and Databases
- Technically and commercially astute
Sound interesting? We think so!
To read the full job description - click the JOB DESCRIPTION – on the left-hand side
READY TO BE AN ENTAINER...
If you’re looking for an opportunity where you can add true value to a team, we want to hear from you, and you too could be part of our journey to be crowned the undisputed champion in the sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment industry.
We’re well on our way to clinching that title – and we’re going to do it in a safe and responsible way and it’s the people behind the tech, and the sheer talent within our teams, who enable us to lead digital entertainment in these bold new directions. Which is why we want you in the team!
After you have applied, why not learn more about some of our colleagues here: https://www.entaincareers.com/en/entain-reals/
