Senior Strategy Manager, Canada
Entain’s Americas and Southern Europe Strategy team is looking to hire a Senior Strategy Manager for its Canadian operations to help support the local team setting and executing the strategy to drive financial performance. Reporting to the Associate Director of Strategy for the region, this exciting role serves as the connective tissue between strategy and execution, working with local and regional leadership teams to lead high impact strategic planning topics and engaging with local operational teams to deliver results. This highly exciting role will work with all commercial functions in Canada as well as multiple groups across central Entain, including Digital, Product and Technology, Operations, Marketing, Sales, as well as regional corporate leadership. We are looking for talented Strategy professionals with the highest standards of integrity who have previously worked in Strategy Consulting at a top tier global firm and are looking for an opportunity to work in a fast-paced commercial environment. The successful candidate must have experience developing and implementing commercial strategy frameworks, have demonstrable experience of influencing Executive leaders on key strategic and investment topics, and have experience executing commercial due diligence and growth strategy initiatives. Experience with large-scale transformations and project management a strong plus. Experience within the sports and gaming vertical is helpful for this role, but not essential.
- Support high-visibility, growth strategy projects by conducting strategic analysis, financial modeling and synthesizing conclusions to be presented to internal executive leaders and functional leads
- Support development and implementation of plans to operationalize strategy to drive revenue growth, market expansion, and competitive positioning in Canada
- Provide strategic guidance to and support engagement with key external vendors (e.g., sports and media partners, suppliers, agencies)
- Monitor industry trends, competitor activities, and regulatory developments to identify opportunities and risks
- Work closely with cross-functional teams (product, marketing, finance, etc.) to develop and implement structure to evaluate and optimize performance.
- Analyze data to derive business insights in order to guide strategic decision-making
- Contribute industry knowledge, thought leadership and a growth perspective to the organization
- Facilitate the flow of ideas and information within the broader company
- Strong undergraduate degree (required)
- Extensive experience in strategy consulting at a top tier consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, OW, Kearney) with 6-10 years post undergrad or more than 2-3 years post MBA (required)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with ambiguity (required)
- Knowledge and ability to apply business frameworks (e.g. value chain, competitive forces, core competency analysis) (required)
- Proficiency in Excel & data analysis (required)
- Proficiency in business writing and verbal communications, including delivery of presentations to executive business leaders (required)
- Proficiency with project management and operational execution (required)
- Strong interest in betting, games, media, technology, and entertainment industries (preferred)
- Fluent English speaker (required)
- Competitive salary
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid working
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
- Chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes
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 and gaming. Really though, it’s the people that truly make us who we are. There’s over 30,000 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.