Senior Strategy Partner

Senior Strategy Partner - Strategy & Change Team
Location – We can consider applicants in Dublin/London/Leeds/Cluj/Porto
Hybrid set up with some travel from time to time

Would you like to make an impact in your new role? Join us as our new Senior Strategy Partner - Your new role will involve partnering with stakeholders from across the Flutter Group such as Group Functions, Brands & Divisions to support them to drive strategic change and understand their today to achieve their tomorrow!
As part of this team we enjoy doing great work every day, we keep things simple, we understand our business and we are bold and proactive.

Who are we?
We’re leading betting and gaming into the future by offering some of the most innovative brands in our industry and using the Flutter Edge. For us, fun is at the heart of what we are aiming to achieve, and our people are the key to ensuring our business is the most trusted and responsible brand ensuring our players get the maximum enjoyment; it’s all about bringing entertainment to life for millions of customers in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

Our global scale means we can continue to invest to support our strategy and maintain our gold medal positions across local markets.
Our Brands: Flutter operates a range of global brands, including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Betfair, Sisal, tombola, FOX Bet, TVG, Junglee Games and Adjarabet
 

What challenges can you expect to be involved with?

• Play a strategic leadership role, focussed on all aspects of shaping and facilitating effective development of strategies and operating models for key partners across the Group, including our Chief Operations Office partners.
• Own analysis and shape end to end complex solutions through leading workshops, interviews, process descriptions and other methodologies as required.
• Be a trusted, objective strategic partner for making recommendations on critical decisions as required.
• Partner with Senior Leaders, the Head of Strategy Partners, and the Director of Strategy & Change to develop strategic success factors on major strategic change and plans to achieve those success factors.
• Oversee the successful implementation of strategic change and help to maximise the positive impact on the organisation.
• Facilitate decision making and arbitration relating to trade-offs and options to be progressed during the lifecycle of major strategic change.
• Communicate effectively to ensure expectations, outcomes and impacts of strategic initiatives are clear and consistently understood.
• Produce high quality, Executive-Committee ready, outputs, proposals, and status updates.
• Develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders within Flutter and across Brands/Divisions, up to and including CxO level
• Support the Head of Strategy Partners and Director of Strategy & Change to achieve the overall mission of the Strategy & Change Team.

What would we usually look for in our new Strategy Partner?

• Experience of operating in a senior role within a fast-paced, global organisation
• Excellent ability to influence and facilitate multiple stakeholders, requirements, and priorities.
• An excellent relationship builder, with a servant leader mindset and motivator who will thrive on working closely with internal teams and partners.
• Ability to work to exacting deadline.
• Strong analysis, problem resolution, judgment, and decision-making skills
• Strong leader with demonstrable experience of leading at scale to successfully deliver against strategic objectives.
• Excellent communication and storytelling ability with strong interpersonal and organisational skills
   

Some things that set us apart: (For our UK/I locations, please ask for local benefits)
Our passion has helped us take the betting industry by storm. So we think it’s only fair that our people enjoy a set of excellent rewards for all their hard work:

• UK/I - Uncapped Holiday Allowance (you read that right!)
• Enhanced Pension Scheme (please ask for your location and we will share!)
• Bonus Scheme
• Life Assurance, Income protection, Private healthcare (with option to add dependent)
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund & Access to thousands of Udemy courses
• Invest via the Company Share save Scheme, Discount vouchers, Volunteering days.
• ‘Take 20’ work from another location for up to 20 days
• Enhanced Parental Leave Policy – eg. Maternity up to 52 weeks which includes paid time off for appointments.
   

At Flutter we’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us one of the Top Workplaces in the area. 
 

Further detail on the role:
Interpersonal: Building Relationships
Building Support; we establish close relationships with our stakeholders, underpinned by trust, integrity, and respect. We are able to build awareness, understanding and positive momentum behind the Group technology strategy, often without being in a position to assert authority.
Objective: we are impartial and unbiased, ensuring equal treatment for all and that decisions taken are based on objective criteria.
Outcome-focused: Achieving Results
Collaborative : we work effectively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals that align towards the achievement of the Group technology Strategy. We foster a collaborative environment and assume the role of leader when required.
Adaptable ; we understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue and can adapt our approach in order to achieve a successful outcome.
Strategic: Planning for the future
Strategic Thinking; we think about the big picture to conceptualise and use that perspective to support & inspire our partners to think beyond the immediate issues in front of them to achieve long term competitive advantage through greater agility, faster time to market and a better customer experience.
Strategic Communication: We are proactive and considered in our approach to stakeholder communications. We actively listen, provide constructive feedback, and help others to consider new perspectives. We are strategic storytellers when we communicate our brand and demonstrate the value we create across the group.