The Senior Continuous Improvement Manager, Core HR, will play a critical role in partnering with the business and HR leaders to enhance the HR solutions in place to enable an exceptional employee experience, lead requirements and challenging priorities in a high growth environment and continuously enhance the experience offered based on global HR trends and business goals.
Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming company with a market capitalization of c. $37bn operating some of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands in the sector.
A constituent of both the London FTSE 100 and New York Stock Exchange, Flutter brings entertainment to life for over 20 million customers in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We call this the Flutter Edge – the combined power of our dedicated people, market-leading products, smart technology and the financial capital to succeed. Operating in 20+ regulated markets, through our Positive Impact Plan, we are committed to making a positive contribution for our customers, colleagues, communities and the planet that we play on.
The Group uses a divisional management and operating structure across its companies: each division has an empowered management team, which is responsible for maintaining momentum and growth in its respective markets.
On 14th May 2024, it was announced that Flutter would be moving its primary listing from the UK to the US, and its global operational headquarters from Dublin to New York (effective 31st May 2024).
The Senior Continuous Improvement Manager, Core HR, is a key partner manager for HR Operations and is accountable for the success of Core HR processes and solutions across all areas including end-to-end process, HR systems and technical functionality, analytics, resource and operating model requirements and user experience. This role is focused on identifying, facilitating cross-functional agreement on and coordinating the delivery of the end-to-end solutions across all areas of Core HR and Absence.
Key responsibilities
A key contributor to the vision and benefits of the Flutter global HR ecosystem, including the continued onboarding of Flutter brands and design and adoption of the ecosystem to support an exceptional user experience
Effectively contribute to the Continuous Improvement team and wider Change & Transformation team to help deliver a collective and joined-up approach to enhance the user experience of Flutter global design
Seen as a leader in driving projects and providing an exceptional partner and employee experience
Understand the global Flutter HR strategy to design an impactful employee experience to meet demands at a global, divisional and local level
Lead on all end-to-end design aspects of Core HR including the design for Workday and additional enabling technologies or services, HR processes, solutions and operating models, by translating business requirements into innovative, practical and technically feasible design decisions, reporting to the Lead Continuous Improvement Manager, HR Operations
Demonstrate relentless curiosity and a challenger attitude to truly understand and validate partner requirements and motivations, through proactive and meaningful engagement and by clearly communicating design strategies and benefits to partners to obtain their consensus
Drive key decisions and alignment across key partner groups including HR Core Services, HR Technology and local HR teams, ensuring that all voices are heard, to reach alignment with programme objectives and global design decisions, whilst also taking decisive action where needed and demonstrating perseverance to see projects through to successful completion
Keep ahead of growing HR trends and emerging technologies and thought partner with the business and HR community to solve business problems and help build and enhance the HR experience for Flutter over the next 5+ years
Deliver design workshops, driving design decisions and enable accurate bring together of local/legal/regulatory design requirements
Lead the transition of agreed processes and knowledge to the HR Core Services team and Process owners, enabling creation of accurate and user-friendly support and training material
Support the Change Management workstream, to identify areas where their support may be required with delivery and to drive the change and comms agenda for given specialist area
Support testing execution, including review of test scripts and service rehearsals of processes to ensure robustness of design
Minimum of 8 years’ experience in an HR systems implementation, HR Business Partner or Business Analyst role
Understanding of global HR subject areas and principles including awareness of global HR technology solutions
Understanding of HR systems and processes, particularly Workday, desirable
Strong experience of building, influencing and handling strong relationships and diverse partner groups in an ambiguous, high growth and ever-changing environment whilst retaining the ability to adapt and work at pace
Able to inspire trust and credibility with global business and HR leaders
Excellent listening and questioning skills with ability to truly understand the needs of the business and resolve appropriate solution for partners
Experience of scribing detailed business requirements
Able to deliver effective and engaging workshops and system demonstrations as part of a virtual, in-person and/or hybrid environment
Able to clearly communicate the global design by developing engaging workshop content and demonstration of strong presentation skills
Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess complex situations and propose effective solutions, with a focus on both technical feasibility and partner experience
Experience of managing a team in a dynamic business and through complex transformation projects
Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines on multiple projects or tasks concurrently
Experience of working in a federated organisation
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all, you make it happen.
We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you, including:
Bonus scheme
Uncapped holiday allowance
Enhanced pension scheme
Private healthcare
Life assurance
Income protection
£1,000 annual self-development learning fund
Invest via the Flutter Sharesave Scheme
Enhanced parental leave
We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market-leading position in the US and across the world.
We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse, and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.
With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.
We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.