Senior Football Trading Manager

The Opportunity:

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

Role Overview:

Deliver a market-leading Football trading proposition for football operators globally, managing odds and ensuring compliance with operator requirements.

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

Collaborate with senior leadership to develop strategies for a market leading B2B Football trading proposition, optimizing margins and trading strategies across multiple global brands.

Oversee real-time odds delivery for football, both pre-matches, in-play and ante-post. This will involve odds derived from feed providers and internal algorithmic and manual trading.

Monitor odds feed health, football event coverage, ensuring market accuracy and timely interventions when needed.

Drive and monitor internal team processes including real-time bet noting, stake factoring of individual Football players and implementing odds changes where necessary to protect Football margin.

Lead a high-performing team of Football Traders, ensuring alignment with company KPIs, fostering a results-driven culture, and providing necessary tools and resources.

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

Drive profitability through manual odds compilation and benchmarking of trading strategies, while ensuring effective reporting on football P&L performance.

Work cross-functionally with content, marketing, and Sportsbook Support teams to ensure timely and proper event displays, optimize trading processes, and meet partner requirements.

Raise feature requests for product enhancements, manage customer queries, and continuously improve trading functionality and service delivery.

This could be ‘you' if you can demonstrate:

Strong financial acumen with extensive experience in odds compilation and trading KPIs.

Deep expertise in Football trading, betting rules and a thorough understanding of football markets, including derivative markets, trends, and innovations.

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

Analytical mindset with a keen eye for detail, ensuring football trading margin optimization through data-driven decision-making.

Proven leadership and team management skills, capable of overseeing a 24/7 operation, with flexibility to accommodate peak periods, including evenings and weekends.

These skills, attributes and experience will help:

Overview

Department:
Trading Operations

Reporting to:
Head of Trading Operations

Location:
Sofia, Bulgaria

Employment type:
Full-time