Manager, Corporate Strategy
The Group Corporate Strategy team sits at the centre of Entain, supporting the development of the Group's long-term strategy and driving key enterprise-wide initiatives. The team partners closely with senior leadership across business units and functions to shape strategic priorities, evaluate growth opportunities (including M&A, partnerships, and new ventures), and deliver high-impact strategic projects that inform decision-making at the highest levels of the organisation.
As a Senior Manager, the individual will lead high-impact strategic projects and initiatives, translating Group strategic priorities into actionable plans and outcomes. This involves structuring complex problems, shaping recommendations, and driving cross-functional alignment to ensure delivery of strategic initiatives, while supporting the development of junior team members.
This is an exciting opportunity for a high-performing, analytical, and collaborative individual looking to grow their impact in a dynamic, global environment.
- Lead end-to-end strategy projects from problem definition through execution alignment.
- Define analytical approaches, integrate diverse inputs, and translate insights into recommendations.
- Shape strategic initiatives, including growth strategy, market entry, and investment opportunities.
- Drive components of the strategic planning process, synthesising inputs into priorities and trade-offs.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment, pace, and delivery against strategic objectives.
- Develop materials for senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
- Manage and coach junior team members, ensuring high-quality outputs and professional development.
- Demonstrable experience (~5 yrs) in corporate strategy, strategy consulting, investment banking, or a related analytical field (required).
- Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to frame and structure ambiguous problems and translate insights into clear recommendations (required).
- Proven track record of leading strategic projects or workstreams, delivering high-quality outcomes (required).
- Experience developing and evaluating growth strategies, investment cases, and market opportunities (required).
- Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders, driving alignment across functions (required).
- Experience managing or coaching junior team members, ensuring quality and development (required).
- Strong communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership (required).
- Generous group bonus scheme.
- Hybrid working - 3 days in the office.
- Private medical insurance.
- Pension scheme – matched to 6%.
- Ability to buy and sell holiday.
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind.
- Additional "It's Your Game" day off to use at either Christmas or New Year.
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development.
- Share save scheme.
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.