Job Title: Racing Trader
Can you use your analytical prowess to help us predict the unpredictable? Our Trading Team is always thinking one step ahead, whether that’s making decisions in the moment during big sporting events or using our combined insights to create innovative data-driven solutions for our customers.
Role Overview
The Racing Trader will be responsible for accurately trading horse racing prices in a manner that aligns with individual brand strategies and propositions while ensuring competitiveness is maintained. This role involves contributing to the pricing and strategic development of customer propositions, using data to inform pricing strategies and risk management decisions, and mentoring less experienced team members.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Diverse Technical Skillset: Possess a varied skillset in horse racing trading, compilation, and propositions and the ability to seamlessly transition between different tasks, shifts, and responsibilities within the racing team.
- Pricing Accuracy : Accurately trade our horse racing prices in a manner that aligns with individual brand strategies and propositions while ensuring competitiveness is maintained.
- Customer Proposition : Contribute to both the pricing and strategic development of the propositions offered to customers.
- Data- Driven Decisions : Use data to inform and review pricing strategies and risk management decisions.
- Reporting : Analyse and report on trading performance, interpreting data to make actionable recommendations for the wider team to drive improvement.
- Collaboration : Work closely with various departments and brands within the business to understand the impact of initiatives and determine the next best actions.
- Ways of Working : Contribute to the development of effective working practices within the racing department, fostering a desired culture.
- Compliance : Ensure all trading activity complies with Flutter Entertainment’s regulatory and responsible gambling policies.
- Presentations : Be comfortable presenting to stakeholders, both within the racing team and outside.
- Innovation : Bring new ideas to the table regarding trading practices, with the ability to influence performance by implementing change.
- Strategic Initiatives : Be known outside of racing and seen as someone who can contribute to strategic initiatives at the department level.
Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required
- Analytical : Enjoys working with data, capable of identifying trends in large datasets to understand both what is happening and why.
- Strategic Thinker : Passionate about commercial performance, with a keen interest and determination to analyse data, provide insightful recommendations, and implement changes that positively impact racing's commercial success.
- Openly Curious : Inquisitive and unafraid to question existing methods, always seeking ways to enhance and improve processes.
- Quality Decision Maker : Ability to drive change through a willingness to give their view and act. Can make quality, long and short-term decisions based on the data and insight that is available.
- Customer Focus : Sees problems from the customer’s perspective, placing the customer at the heart of decision-making processes.
- Commercially Savvy : Eager to learn and understand the business, recognizing what drives commercial results.
- Agility : Be agile in how you operate operations, leveraging a varied skillset to add value across a variety of tasks, shifts, and projects within the team.
About Flutter UK & Ireland
Our division operates four of the most popular and trusted brands in the market: Sky Betting and Gaming, tombola, Betfair, and Paddy Power. Together, the Flutter UK&I brands offer market-leading entertainment to millions of customers every single week! Over the last couple of decades, they have all ridden the wave of digital betting with industry firsts like ‘cash-out’, ‘Request a Bet’, betting exchanges, and free-to-play games like Soccer Saturday Super 6.
Working Here
Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with to the ground-breaking projects, no two days will be the same. With a philosophy of ‘Together We Are More’, our 7,000+ colleagues come together to form an expert community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and a myriad of subject areas. We listen without judgement, encourage & support, and help build others up. Working at Flutter UK&I means you can be yourself, work how and where suits you best, and let your personality shine!
Introducing the Team
Flutter UK&I are industry-leading in the field of horse racing and are responsible for a significant percentage of the market within the region. The team is based across two locations, Dublin and Leeds, with the teams working closely together in a high-paced environment. We pride ourselves on being able to understand our customers and give them the best experience possible on a day-to-day basis. Racing is an always-on sport, and to reflect the priorities in the Racing calendar, you will be expected to adapt accordingly.
