Job description
Head of Sportsbook (0703)
- Employment Type:Full Time Permanent
- Website Category:Commercial
We’re a business that embraces change and progress.
The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke.
At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you.
As Head of Sportsbook at evoke, you will be driving commercial performance from our Sports verticals across our key markets for both the Mr Green and 888 brands.
The HoSB will be responsible for the revenue targets from the vertical, owning our Sports promotion plan across markets while optimizing our player offering with our trading team and pushing our product to next level. You will bring extensive insights from a player perspective, to drive us forward together with our Sportsbook Product team in our journey to develop our in-house Sportsbook platform to becoming world class.
In other words, we are looking for a sports fanatic with a deep understanding of player behavior and product needs across territories. In an exciting environment with lots of opportunities, you are agile and focused on prioritizing initiatives that bring the strongest commercial output.
This is therefore a key role within the commercial team, reporting to the regional Managing Director. The role requires 3-5 years of Sportsbook leadership experience, having worked detailed on commercial and product performance.
- Monitoring trading performance and drive optimization together with the central trading team.
- Drive the Martech / Product requirements of the business in collaboration with our Product teams by finding opportunities and gaps and owning your business cases internally.
- Build the monthly promotional plans according to commercial targets together with the Business Unit’s CRM team and Commercial partners.
- Represent and network on behalf of the Business Unit in our daily (and new) relationships with suppliers and keep us at the forefront of new opportunities.
- Minimum 3 years working with Sportsbook in a commercial or product oriented role.
- Native Danish, Swedish or German language proficiency.
- Experience with commercial strategy in regulated markets
- Strong project management and coordination skills.
- A solid team player. You possess your own expertise to drive us forward, but you get there through strong collaboration with key functions across the company.
- An empathic and strong leader, to fit the culture in the BU and at evoke. You bring experience from people management that you can easily apply to the existing Business Unit and your direct reports.
- The ability to work across multiple teams in a matrix organization and manage project deliveries within tight deadlines.
- Highly organized.
- Financial: Competitive Salary and Bonus Schemes
- Hybrid Working: Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!
- Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well-being, offering comprehensive healthcare insurance, dental care, travel insurance and life insurance.
- Health & Wellbeing: An allowance which can be used towards gym and fitness memberships, fitness clothing and equipment, consultations with a dietitian, massages and select treatments or items for your home office.
- Wellness Cloud: Free access to Wellness Cloud; a tool to help encourage greater wellbeing through online coaching, webinars, videos and online resources.
- Office Perks: A chef in the office weekly preparing healthy meals, coffee shop vouchers, juices, snacks and after work drinks and events.
- Volunteer Time Off Programme: 20 days paid leave you can avail after your first year of employment to volunteer at an organisation online, locally, or abroad.
At evoke, we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth.
Sound good? Then you belong at our place!
Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family!
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Daniel Eddison
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