What you'll be doing Mentorship & Team Leadership
- Provide guidance and coaching to the delivery team-establishing best practices for different delivery approaches (waterfall / agile), following governance requirements, and standardizing documentation.
- Foster a collaborative, growth oriented environment that encourages knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the broader team as well as personal development and growth of team members.
Maintaining Roadmaps
- Define and own a roadmap for transformation and enhancements of the team's data products.
- Work with the Insights Business Partner to prioritise the portfolio backlog, balancing short term deliverables (quick wins, user requests) with strategic initiatives (long term data platform expansions).
Lottery Specific portfolio/backlog
- Collaborate with BAs and marketing, finance, and lottery operations to define the team's backlog of initiatives and translate them into deliverables.
- Balance user needs for agile analytics with regulatory or compliance mandates.
Data Quality & Governance
- Ensure robust data accuracy and access controls for all published reports-particularly around potential winner anonymity or regulated data sets.
- Support or refine data governance processes, upholding lottery guidelines and internal policies.
Project Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement
- Maximise business value delivery and report progress.
- Manage end to end analytics projects-from initial scoping and backlog management to user acceptance testing (UAT) and production rollout-coordinate project leads of mid/large initiatives and manage the delivery of smaller items. Ensure deliveries meet the agreed mix of time, cost and scope.
- Flex on delivery methodologies, promote agile approaches when convenient.
- Coordinate with cross functional teams, providing status updates and addressing risks promptly for an aggregated portfolio view.
User Enablement & Self Service
- Support iterations ceremonies as needed and ensure training programmes, user demos, and lunch and learn sessions to enhance data literacy.
Resource management
- Ensure adequate engagement of 3rd party vendors and alignment of internal resources for backlog delivery.
What experience we're looking for 5+ Years in Product / Project management - Delivery
- Proven track record in product ownership and delivery management (lottery or similar domain advantageous).
- Comfortable with agile or hybrid project methodologies (sprints, stand ups, demos).
Expertise in delivery Tools
- Jira, Confluence, reporting tools (Power BI, etc).
Data Domain expertise
- Experience in Data domain delivery, Data engineering solutions, Analytics, Insights, and AI preferred.
Leadership & Communication
- Strong interpersonal skills to coach reporting delivery team, unify best practices, and drive cross functional cooperation.
- Aptitude for simplifying technical concepts and championing data driven decision making among business stakeholders.
Data Governance & Compliance
- Awareness of regulatory constraints (especially in a lottery setting), ensuring solutions respect data privacy rules and compliance guidelines.
Additional Qualifications
- Agile (Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist), waterfall, (PRINCE2, MPS, MoP, etc).
- Lottery domain experience is desirable, given familiarity with unique data structures, compliance considerations, and reporting nuances within the lottery industry.
Key Measures of Success Timeliness & Quality of Deliverables
- Data, BI and AI initiatives delivered on schedule, with minimal post deployment rework. Cycle time, throughput, change failure rate, etc.
Stakeholder Satisfaction & Adoption
- Positive feedback from stakeholders in lottery ops, finance, marketing on backlog progress and quality of solutions.
- Growth in self serve analytics usage, reducing reliance on ad hoc requests.
Data Accuracy & Regulatory Alignment
- Strict adherence to lottery regulations (e.g., anonymised data for winners) in all reporting solutions.
- No major data quality issues or compliance incidents.
Mentorship & Team Performance
- Lead or encourage team's training and development, prompting development areas and allowing space for this in the team velocity (capacity).
- Follow consistent methods across the function (e.g., design, standardised documentation, best practices, etc.).
Roadmap Progress & Innovation
- Define team's roadmap and align cadence delivery and value optimisation with Insight Business Partner and stakeholders, ensuring optimal prioritisation.
- Steady advancement of both functional and technical items in the BI backlog.
- Delivery of new features (e.g., advanced AI, visuals, incremental load strategies) that enhance the data platform's overall value.
Benefits
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
- 26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days (and bank holidays)
- Single Private Health Cover
- Complimentary Private Medical
- Income Protection
- Flexible Benefits - EV Scheme, Money Coach, Will Writing, Mortgage Advice, Dental and Eye Care Schemes.
- Enhanced Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity, Adoption)
- Wellness Allowance £500
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted Health Assessments
- Volunteering Days
- Matched Funding
EEO Statement
We are a Disability Confident Leader which means we've taken proactive steps to ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive for disabled and neurodivergent colleagues and candidates. As part of this we offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential requirements of the job.