Racing Trading Manager

The Opportunity:

Join our team as a Racing Trading Manager, where you’ll lead a talented group of traders and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our racing product. This is a unique opportunity to combine your expertise in Horse Racing and Greyhound Racing with strategic leadership to drive high performance, optimize profitability, and deliver world-class trading solutions to clients globally. You’ll collaborate with senior leadership to develop innovative strategies, oversee real-time odds delivery, and ensure seamless trading operations. If you’re passionate about the racing industry and ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, this is the ideal role for you.

Role Overview:

Deputize in absence of senior racing trading manager and be the first point of contact for racing specific topics within trading department, cross team, and for external partners.

Deliver a market-leading Racing trading proposition for racing clients globally, managing odds and ensuring compliance with operator requirements.

Lead and mentor a team of Racing Traders, driving high performance and aligning team KPIs with overall company targets.

Collaborate with Senior Racing Trading Manager to develop and execute the strategies for a world-class B2B Racing odds provision service, optimizing margins and trading strategies across multiple global brands.

Oversee real-time odds delivery for day of race racing and ante-post, feed health, and race coverage, ensuring market accuracy and timely interventions when needed.

Monitor and ensure smooth internal team processes including real-time bet noting, stake factoring of individual Racing players and implementing odds changes where necessary to protect Racing margin.

Develop and maintain profitability reports, collaborating with BI teams to track racing P&L performance, and conduct benchmarking for competitive pricing strategies.

Work cross-functionally with content, marketing, and trading support teams to ensure timely event displays and assist with operational needs during low workload periods.

This could be ‘you' if you can demonstrate:

Strong financial acumen with expertise in odds compilation, trading KPIs, and a keen analytical mindset for optimizing margins.

Deep expertise in Horse Racing and Greyhound Racing trading, with a thorough understanding of racing markets, trends, and innovations.

Customer-focused, balancing profitability control with partner needs, and demonstrating initiative to anticipate requests.

Proven leadership and management skills, capable of leading a 24/7 operation, with flexibility to accommodate peak periods and occasional travel.

These skills, attributes and experience will help:

Extensive Sportsbook industry experience, with a solid understanding of trading processes and back-end functionality across Racing.

Flexible approach to working hours. The role will require working with internal teams working shifts, service providers & operators in various locations across different time zones. You should be always available during core trading hours.

Analytically minded and able to dig deep in data with upper intermediate Excel skills including formulas and pivot tables

Overview

Department:
Trading Operations

Reporting to:
Senior Racing Trading Manager

Location:
Sofia, Bulgaria

Employment type:
Full-time