Senior Sports Trading Manager

The Opportunity:

Join our team as a Senior Sports Trading Manager, where you’ll lead a talented group of traders and play a pivotal role in shaping our general sports product. This is a unique opportunity to combine your expertise in Sports trading (excluding Racing & Football) 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 sports trading strategies, oversee real-time odds delivery through feed driven and algorithmic trading, and ensure seamless sports trading operations. If you’re passionate about sports trading and ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, this is the ideal role for you.

Role Overview:

Key responsibilities of this role include:

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

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

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

Oversee real-time odds delivery for general sports (excluding Football & Racing), 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, general sports 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 sports players and implementing odds changes where necessary to protect General Sports margin.

Develop and maintain profitability reports, collaborating with BI teams to track sports 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 sports 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 Sports trading (specifically Tennis, Basketball, US Sports, UK Sports & Table Tennis), betting rules and a thorough understanding of sports 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 sports 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:
Sports Trading

Reporting to:
Head of Trading Operations

Location:
Sofia, Bulgaria

Employment type:
Full-time