Company Description
Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.
Job Description
Entain are looking for a Procurement Category Manager in our Content team, to join its growing global business.
The key purpose of this role is to optimise third party spend on all Content expenditure across Entain with the creation of short/mid/long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business. There would be a clear focus on Sports Data & Streaming alongside a range of other products & services that help drive our global sportsbook offering.
Reporting to the Senior Category Manager, you will be part of our Global Procurement team influencing £Multi Million spend across multiple categories for Content.
Key Responsibilities
- Scope out of all historic and future Content spend by supplier, business unit and geography – including International
- Engage Product, Trading & Commercial teams to understand business strategies
- Create Content strategies, ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend and a clear roadmap of activity based on contract expiry dates and business needs
- Build a cutting-edge knowledge of the supply base, providing value adding insights to the Product, Trading & Commercial communities
- Operate agile and effective commercial processes
- Optimise buying channels, to ensure efficient transactional procurement
- Understand critical areas for innovation and build a pipeline of opportunities to be shared with the supplier community
- Identification of global synergies
- Identification of revenue improvement opportunities
- Contribute and uphold the agreed values/behaviours of the team
- Using stakeholder and supplier networks, identify continuous improvement and step-change opportunities to improve product and service specifications
- Own and embody the teams values, including the promotion and embedding within the team
Qualifications
- Graduate calibre with Bachelor’s degree in Business (or other related degree)
- Post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc/MBA) or a professional qualification such as MCIPS is desirable but not essential
- Project Management qualification desirable but not essential
- Sports/sports betting experience advantageous but not essential
- Technically and commercially astute
- Commercial awareness and excellent negotiation skills.
Additional Information
At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.
Depending on your role and location, you can expect to receive benefits like:
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid working - 4 days in the office
- Private medical insurance
- Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
- Ability to buy and sell holiday
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
- Sharesave Scheme
- Paid Subscription to LinkedIn learning
And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values and that's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.
We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.
What We Do
Welcome to Entain.
Our journey as Entain began when we evolved from GVC Holdings on 9th December 2020, but our brands have been paving the way and making history since the 1880s.
Today, we’re one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups – a FTSE 100 company that is home to more than 25 widely recognised brands, such as bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker.
But that’s just the beginning. We’re constantly broadening our horizons and expanding our global influence. For example, our partnership with MGM Resorts International has allowed us to make waves in the US by powering BetMGM with our bespoke and top-of-the-line technology.
It’s with this unique technology that we’re revolutionising our industry, and we’re boldly working towards being THE world leader in sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment. Really though, it’s the people that truly make us who we are. There’s over 24,000 of us around the world and counting, but we all play for the same team.
We’re proud to promote a culture that shatters barriers to unite, and encourages uncompromised diversity of background, thought and experience. When we win, we win together.
If you share our values and want to be part of the revolution, we want you on our team. With offices across 19 different countries, we have an excellent history of identifying and nurturing the finest talent on a global scale. We’re all about putting our customers at the heart of the action and, with us, you can help bring moments of excitement into people’s lives.
At Entain, it’s your game. We’re ready to play – are you?
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