Portfolio & Planning Manager
The UK&I Strategy & Insights team at Entain supports the business in turning strategy into clear plans, priorities and actions. The team works across portfolio strategy, market forecasting, customer frameworks and strategic planning, helping the business make informed decisions about where to invest, grow, optimise or deprioritise.
As a Portfolio & Planning Manager, the successful candidate will help turn strategy into clear plans, priorities and actions across the UK&I business. They will use analysis and strategic thinking to support portfolio decisions, planning cycles and investment choices, ensuring priorities are clearly defined and translated into action. Reporting to the Head of Portfolio Strategy & Planning, the role involves working cross-functionally to support portfolio reviews, planning cycles and investment decisions, while playing a central role in governance, leadership reporting and tracking delivery against strategic plans.
- Support portfolio strategy and strategic planning across products, brands, channels and customer segments.
- Coordinate planning cycles, prioritisation and resource allocation across teams.
- Manage governance forums, tracking actions, decisions and performance against strategic plans to keep priorities moving.
- Produce clear executive reporting and strategic updates for leadership forums, making complex information easier to understand and act on.
- Support business cases, strategic projects and transformation initiatives across the UK&I business.
- Experience leading business planning, strategic execution or transformation programmes. (required)
- Experience establishing governance, reporting and performance management processes. (required)
- Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives across multiple stakeholders. (required)
- Experience using data, insight and commercial performance to support decision-making. (required)
- A regular bonus and great pension.
- 25 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
- Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
- Life assurance and Income Protection.
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
- A stake in Entain's success through the ShareSave 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.