Live Trader
As a Live Trader, the individual will actively manage and oversee live betting events, maintaining a consistently high standard of product quality and overall offering. This role demands a sharp focus on risk control, monitoring real-time data and making fast, informed decisions to mitigate risk as events unfold.
The Live Trader will play a key role in driving the sportsbook KPIs of LeoVegas, contributing to odds optimisation, ensuring competitive offerings, and enhancing the overall customer betting experience. The ideal candidate will balance product excellence, profitability, and customer satisfaction while thriving in the fast-paced environment of live events. As the schedule follows the live global sports calendar, this role requires working non-traditional shifts, including nights and weekends.
- Ensuring live odds are in line with the industry and risk managed accordingly.
- Ensuring quick and correct evaluation of the markets.
- Having a deep understanding of each sport offered.
- Solving problems, contingencies and issues in the quickest way with minimal interruptions.
- Monitoring real-time events, including identifying and reporting suspicious betting behaviours.
- Helping in the data collection for the competitor analysis project and in other tasks or projects assigned by the Bookmaking strategy team.
- Assisting in testing of new betting features in back office and Third-Party Providers.
- Advanced analytical skills (required)
- Good written and oral communication skills in English (required)
- Tolerance to work under pressure (required)
- Ability to solve problems fast (required)
- Openness to receiving and providing constructive feedback (required)
- Strong multitasking abilities (required)
- Meticulous attention to detail (required)
- Honesty and integrity (required)
- Punctuality and time management skills (required)
- Competent in Excel and other Microsoft Office programs (required)
- Experience placing bets, a basic understanding of odds compiling, or familiarity with the concept of value in betting (nice-to-have)
- A passion for soccer, horse/greyhound racing, British sports, or video games (nice-to-have)
- Ability to maintain exceptional focus in a desk-based, real-time environment, making data-driven decisions on the fly (nice-to-have)
- A desire to work in the betting industry, an adaptable approach to diverse team dynamics, and excellent listening skills (nice-to-have)
- Salary of COP 18,000,000 per year
- A fun work environment for sports lovers
- Become part of a multicultural team that values and respects diversity
- The possibility to grow within the team and take responsibility
- Performance management bonus (short and long term)
- All Legal Benefits
- Enhanced Health Plan
- Sodexo Gas & Canasta
- Wellness Aid
- English Course Aid
- Glasses Aid
- Morning & Night transportation
- BBQ Day
- Integrations Activity
- Home Work Day
- CSR Day
LeoVegas Group is a Swedish mobile-first iGaming company founded in 2011, headquartered in Stockholm with its main operational hub in Sliema, Malta. A pioneer of mobile casino, it operates online casino and sportsbook products across regulated markets through brands including LeoVegas, BetUK, Expekt, Pink Casino and GoGo Casino. In 2022 the group was acquired by MGM Resorts International and now serves as MGM's international online-gaming arm, having previously been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
