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Sector: Technology
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Contract
Hours: Full Time
Allwyn is the operator of the National Lottery and, as part of a major transformation to deliver greater benefits to Good Causes, is rolling out new critical infrastructure to 41,000 retailers over the next 12 months.
This massive scale deployment includes networks, Lottery terminals, scanners, and printers, and Permanent Point of Sale equipment and is being run through a portfolio of Retail Programmes.
The Senior Programme Manager is responsible for successful project delivery within the Retail Deployment Portfolio.
Programme Managers will engage closely with stakeholders to deliver complex projects with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Allwyn business priorities. They will provide expert advice and guidance on programme delivery, manage timelines, risks and issues, and handover of services to support and the realisation of benefits.
Senior Programme Managers will be responsible for leading a team of Programme/Project Managers and matrix-manage individuals in other areas of the delivery organisation. This is a role requiring strong leadership and flexibility of approach to deliver the best outcomes for Allwyn.
As a Senior Programme Manager you will:
* Serve as the overall Leader of the Deployment programme delivery team and exhibit excellent leadership skills, ensuring strong communication channels, giving clarity, motivation, and direction to the team throughout the execution of the programme.
* Ensure that excellent delivery methodologies are defined, followed and continuously improved to deliver the best standards of delivery to appropriate time, cost and quality metrics.
* Be the primary interface and perform programme management activities that ensures adherence to programme/project gates and Governance.
* Review progress and timelines, programme reports; adjust schedules and plans as needed; ensure on time and on budget delivery of programme and identify and resolve issues to ensure programme success.
* Provide expert advice and guidance on programme delivery (mentoring project managers and supporting other teams across Transformation, Technology and the wider business).
* Ensure that the programme is compliant with relevant regulations and standards and work closely with the regulator to address any challenges, provide updates on programme progress, and ensure transparency via constant and clear communication.
* Be able to understand a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans.
* Be able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations.
* Maintain an overarching joined up view of the Deployment plans ensuring that dependencies within and outside the programme are called out and tracked.
* Identify and manage programme risks and issues, ensuring that they are addressed in a timely and effective manner.
* Add value to vendor selection processes (tendering, SLAs, warranty, outsourcing etc.).
* Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services.
* Provide regular updates to senior management on the progress of the programme.
Company
Our vision is to grow the National Lottery responsibly, making it bigger, better and safer for all, with more to good causes.
Bigger because we will significantly increase Good Causes contributions by the end of the Fourth Licence through responsible growth of people playing.
Better because we will modernise technology and operations, refresh games and support shops while improving the use of data and digital.
Safer because participant protection underpins everything we do.
What is unique about us?
Our preparations to transform the National Lottery will be a once-in-a-lifetime type of project in the lottery industry, anywhere in the world. Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
Our approach
In Allwyn, the National Lottery will have an operator that has social value at its heart. We will raise more funding for Good Causes, while running our own business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. That’s why we have committed to an ambitious Social Value framework, which is woven into the way we do business. We believe that lotteries must serve everyone across society, not just those who play. So whether as an employee, a supplier, a retailer or any of the stakeholders that we interact with, we will be powering good across the UK.
Our goal is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
We are working to make the National Lottery truly accessible in a safe way, whether as a player, a retailer or an employee. We are proud to have been a partner with Purple since 2021 to support our work to embed accessibility into everything we do. Purple has carried out an accessibility audit on our office in Watford, is working with us to have truly inclusive workplace policies, and we have exciting plans to do so much more to make our games, both in-store and online, safely accessible.
Come and help us shape what the future of the National Lottery could look like.
Media Clips
“I became an amputee in 2021 and I struggled to find my place back in the working world until Allwyn welcomed me with open arms. They have always focused on what I bring to the table and it is apparent that my disability is not what defines me within the company, but my skill. Allwyn has a noticeable strong focus on accessibility and inclusion, which makes me feel seen and like I have found a permanent home for my career.” Lorna Jeanes, Transition Co-ordinator.
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