District Manager

The Role...

Reporting to the Head of Operations for Irish Retail, the District Manager will be responsible for leading a team to exceed the target of a multi-million pound turnover business across multiple sites in the South East of Ireland.

You will inspire, motivate and train your people to be the best they can be and deliver the Paddy Power vision of being the most fun, fair and customer centric bookmaker on the planet.

What you’ll do

Leading change from the front across your district in a planned and customer centric way. By being visible and proactive in your approach whilst in your shops a minimum of three days a week, you’ll be conducting standards checks, supporting with product knowledge and ensuring the profitability of your shops through close management of P&Ls.
You will take responsibility for positively leading the implementation of change and the introduction of initiatives within the area.
Ensuring your teams are set up for success through your leadership, feeling motivated and energise to deliver the business goals. Your teams engagement is key and you will actively drive improved colleague engagement scores through planning and implementation of people plans.
Promote Safer Gambling within district, working with local representatives as required and ensure that the licenses within your District are protected.

How you’ll do it

We are looking for experience of change management and a people first leadership style. Leading through big changes, field management.
Experience in implementing new concepts in a retail estate, implementing great customer service in self-service environments, is desired but not essential.
You will be joining a supportive environment with a team of experts all with different skills, who are open to learning and sharing best practices with each other.

This is a field based role, with an expectation to work from shops across your district for a minimum of 3 days per week, with the option to work from home for the remaining days. Please also note you may be required to work from our Dublin office on occasion.

Working hours will fall across Mon - Sun including some evenings

About PaddyPower

Work that makes play jealous

Paddy Power has been breaking and re-writing the rules since 1988, from on-track bookmakers to cheeky upstart mischief-makers, to part of the largest betting and gaming technology company in the world.

Although we’ve grown to the betting behemoth we are today, we’ve not forgotten our roots. We continue to offer great value and entertainment to our customers and keep them at the heart of what we do.

Our culture of hard work, boldness and an innovative spirit got us to where we are and we take our work seriously, but not ourselves! We win by having the best people working well together. Don’t pigeon-hole us either – our company is a mix of sports nuts, gaming innovators, tech geniuses, perceptive people-people, inspiring leaders… and a very busy legal team.

We’ve got a growing squad of specialists, and we make the work fun. Sound good? Maybe there’s a spot on the team for you!

Plus, PaddyPower is part of the Flutter UK & Ireland family – a collection of big-hitting entertainment brands such as Betfair, Sky Betting & Gaming and Tombola.

What we’ll offer you

€1,000 learning fund
Unlimited holiday
Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
Pension contribution scheme
Private healthcare
Access to thousands of Udemy courses
Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme
16 hours paid volunteering time per year

Working Here

Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with, to the ground-breaking projects, no two days will be the same.

Our 7,000+ colleagues come together to form an expert, supportive community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and a myriad of subject areas.

And the Values that guide us? Here they are:

Customer First, Always | Change The Game | Win Together | Free To Be Me

We’re proud of our 4 Values, they reflect what matters most to our people and will guide the decisions we make, represent what we believe in and support how we do things at Flutter UK & Ireland.

Find out more about how we co-created our Values with over 10,000+ insights from our people.

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.

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