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Key Skills & Attributes:
- Demonstrable ability to pragmatically apply project management methods
- The ability to effectively manage simultaneous projects
- Ability to interact constructively with cross-functional team members. Recognize and focus on critical path activities and instill that focus into others
- Negotiation and consensus building skills – with developers, customers etc
- Good management and team building skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work in fast paced, team oriented environment
- Flexible, ability to adapt to changing priorities and rapid change
- Energetic, dynamic and goal focused
- Ability to identify innovation to drive successful outcomes
- Ability to adopt prudent change management policies
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
- Be the catalyst for ensuring successful project delivery
- Create detailed schedules and drive software development projects forward through and around roadblocks, including tracking progress and issues
- Work with other managers across functional areas such as marketing, product management, quality assurance and operations to ensure timely and high quality project completion
- Ensure quality of deliverables
- Assist Product and Engineering Management to balance tasks across resources to optimize efficiency
- Track third party deliverables and ensure that external dependencies are factored into project plans
- Effectively communicate across functional areas and to executive management on project progress, issues and risks
- Identify key issues/roadblocks for project and aggressively find solutions that allow the team to stay on track
- Build cross-functional projects plans and ensure timely and effective communication across functional area
- Pragmatically apply and own formal project management techniques, skills and methodologies
- Optimize scope within constraints of cost, quality and time
- Maintain project issues and risk logs and facilitate the resolution of issues and the mitigation of project risks
- Apply Betfair Project Management processes, controls and techniques in a pragmatic manner
- Troubleshoot, problem-solve, and negotiate compromises to make sure that roadblocks are anticipated and tackled to minimize impact to schedule, quality and functionality
- Track, report and communicate action items and key project milestones via weekly reporting i.e. burn down reports
- Assist with the production of business cases, on-going business case validation and support the definition of the product deliverables
- Develop and maintain a strong in-depth knowledge of Betfair products and use this knowledge to refine focus and influence product directions
- Contribute to weekly programme status reports
- Develop and maintain an awareness of stakeholder requirements
- Mentor, coach and train other project managers
- Securing Project resources
- Create and maintain Project morale
- Facilitate Project Meetings and Project team co-ordination
- Interact and co-ordinate Project Stakeholders
- Contribute towards continual improvement of Betfair project management processes
- Aid the implementation of SCRUM
- Maybe asked to be a SCRUM MASTER
Experience & Qualifications Required
- Experience of project management in a similar environment
- Certification or extensive experience of formal project management methodologies such as Prince2 or PMBok
- Proven experience successfully managing complex projects from inception to delivery
- Experience writing specifications and executing project plans from these documents
- Exposure to more than 1 software development approaches/methodologies (e.g. Agile, Iterative, Waterfall etc)
- Experience and understanding of running Agile projects
Betfair is a global online betting and gaming company operating a number of world-leading products offered through multiple channels and across several continents. Our continued business success and growth demand a lot from our technology, including transaction volumes that surpass many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Betfair is major investor in new technology and employs over 400 engineers to produce one of the fastest and most resilient betting platforms available on the internet. Across all its products, Betfair processes more than 5 million transactions on an average day - more than all the European stock exchanges combined - and settlement is immediate. 99.9 per cent of transactions are completed in less than one second.
The Development Center in Cluj-Napoca, Romania is currently organized into 5 large technical teams plus the operational side of the business. The technologies we use are Java, .Net, Oracle, agile project management methodologies and SCRUM.
The rewards for joining BETFAIR Romania are excellent. They include a competitive remuneration and benefits package alongside a professional and socially-minded working environment.
Betfair has won many awards, including the Computer Weekly “Best Places to Work in IT” award on two occasions and it received Best Companies Accreditation for the “The best companies to work for in the UK”.
We are always looking for brilliant people to join our successful business!
