Position: Head of Risk/Sportsbook (UAE)
Company: Cola Group PLC
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Responsibilities:**
- Set up and lead the sportsbook product vertical
- Own the sportsbook strategy and product development, ensuring maximization of synergies with the casino and other product offerings and considering all brands and jurisdictions
- Manage the sportsbook P&L
- Work closely with tech to offer the best user experience
- Partner with Country Managers and the marketing team to recruit suitable ambassadors and to plan the marketing effort required to launch and then grow the sports vertical
- Collaborate with affiliates or other stakeholders
- Establish KPIs, own them and report to senior management
- Keep up to date on competitors' offering, market trends and players' behaviors and preferences
- Stay focused on innovation and cutting-edge differentiators

**Trading Team Management:**
- Defining the sportsbook pricing strategy and betting offer in line with our commercial targets
- Coaching the trading managers to deliver a competitive and best pricing Sportsbook offering, including range of sports, events, depth of markets within pre-match and in-play products
- Benchmarking & conducting competitor analyses to offer the best sportsbook experience to our customers
- Continuously monitoring and improving the trading platforms effectiveness

**Product and Project Management:**
- Helping in building, developing and optimizing our own sportsbook product (bet builder, cash out, risk management) to drive our platform growth
Arbitrating the roadmap with the Tech teams
- Immersing yourself in our world by being kept up to date with best sportsbook practices.
- Generating new product ideas, recommending enhancements to existing products
- Performing functional testing of several products and raise defects on Jira
Performance Analysis and Review
- Producing daily/weekly/monthly performance analysis for all sports
- Defining action plans to increase our business performances
- Establishing regular forums with Tech / Marketing / Customer Services/ Legal
- Optimizing risk management strategies, contributing to the development of risk management tools

**Requirements:**
- 3+ years' experience as a senior sports product manager within the iGaming sector
- Experience setting up and managing sports products
Target and data-driven
- Ability to communicate well, both internally and externally, at all levels
Inspirational and engaging visionary

**What are your skills?**
- Good understanding of the Online Sports Betting business
- Knowledge in new technologies and technical resources to improve product performances
- Solid mathematical background
- High level of curiosity (especially for tech tools) and customer focus mindset
- At ease with tech environment and product management. A basic IT knowledge will be a plus.

**We offer:**
- Competitive compensation.
- Full remote and part-time possibility first 3 month, comfortable and cozy working environment in Dubai afterwards
- 20 working days (4 calendar weeks) of paid vacation
- Non-bureaucracy culture: questions are resolved quickly, opportunities to influence the processes, new ideas and proposals are always welcomed
- Corporate events and team buildings where we celebrate our team and company’s victories and achievements
- Bonuses according to performance.
- Team of folks with super start-up atmosphere inside.