Project Manager

Who we are:

Allwyn is a multi-national lottery operator with leading market positions in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  Our primary focus is lotteries, helping them raise more for good causes.  We drive innovation, efficiency, and safety across our casual gaming entertainment platform in the quest for enhanced player engagement.

Allwyn North America is headquartered in Chicago, and currently operates the Illinois Lottery under a private management agreement while seeking other opportunities throughout the U.S.  We also provide products and services to lotteries and their players throughout Europe and the United States.

About the Team:

The Technology team utilizes the latest technological trends to effectively build and manage solutions in an informal, open and collaborative environment.

Position Overview:

Within Allwyn North America, the Project Manager will be responsible for working as part of a technical management function, delivering practical, business focused and technology based solutions to complex challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of business cases in conjunction with stakeholders and finance in order to gain financial approvals prior to the mobilization of project teams.
• Overseeing the whole project delivery, ensuring exceptional customer service and high quality technical solutions.  
• Leading a matrix team made up of marketing, finance, digital, retail sales, business analysts, technical architects and software focused delivery leads – each with responsibilities for major workstreams.
• Coordinating 3rd parties and interdependencies – including technical providers, design agencies and other vendors.
• Aligning analysis, development, systems integration, test and infrastructure teams, and several 3rd party vendors, to deliver the project with maximum efficiency.
• Budget management, tracking and board level reporting responsibilities for the entire project.
• Work with a number of internal colleagues and external stakeholders in order to deliver objectives. 
• Build productive relationships with 3rd party subcontractors and stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate appropriately up to an Executive level and effective at influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• Filter noise in order to get to the issue, and to ensure that other more senior stakeholders understand the important issues, risks and decisions that they need to make.

Requirements

Required:

• 5 plus years experience of project management - involving both business and technical change.
• Strong technical project management experience - familiar with Agile and/or more traditional waterfall development activities.
• Familiar with end-to-end software and/or web/mobile application testing including functional and non-functional testing.
• Proven experience running and governing software development projects involving complex system integration from multiple 3rd party subcontractors.
• Proven experience from successful delivery of projects involving business and technology change e.g. mobile app releases and project management of software releases in a retail environment.
• Proven background in stakeholder management, up to C-level, in both internal and customer organizations.

Preferred:

• PMP or CSM certifications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Exemplary written and verbal skills
• Leadership and management expertise with the ability to mentor when needed
• A professional, credible and measured demeanor.
• Engaging, influential, dynamic and authoritative.
• Flexible, pragmatic and capable of adapting to customer and project needs.
• Capable of operating in a wide range of environments, cultures and customer situations.
• Broad level of expertise across the delivery of complex, software based solutions.
• Experience working in complex industries - both from a technical point of view and in a regulatory environment.
• Experience with systems integration and working with multiple third parties.
• Experience within one or more of the following industries: e-commerce, gaming, and retail environment.
• Solid understanding of end to end software development and testing cycles.
• Experience working in a startup environment and/or building up a project/program team from scratch.
• Financial services experience or consultancy background is a plus.
• Operating rhythm with purposeful pace and agility
• Solution and action oriented

Benefits

Working for Allwyn North America:

Our goal is to offer an inclusive work environment – where people can bring their best selves, and do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.  While the main contribution of the Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn, we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  That's why we have committed to an ambitious Social Value strategy, which is woven into the way we do business.  We believe that lotteries must serve everyone, not just those who play.  So, as an employee, a supplier, a retailer, or any of the stakeholders that we interact with, we will be supporting good causes.

Our Values are embedded in the design of our organization and our plans to expand across North America.

• We Do What is Right: By acting with integrity, making brave decisions, taking accountability, and accepting responsibility. 
• We Win Together: By working together as one team, always empowering our colleagues, valuing our differences, and respecting each other. We are always seeking opportunities to create business value while enjoying our work and having fun together.
• We Think Differently: By accepting feedback, listening to our peers, striving for improvement, and always daring to innovate. We always deliver with passion and have broad horizons.

Moreover, we pledge to have the highest standards of respect, diversity, and inclusion, and support and encourage our partners to do the same.  Allwyn North America is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Allwyn North America offers a competitive employee package designed to attract top talent. This is a 12-month contract position with an hourly rate of $52.00 -$61.00 per hour, depending on experience.