Join our journey to create a new experience for The National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.
While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.
We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…
A bit about the role…
- Reporting to the Retail Planning Manager, responsible for developing the tools for the National Account Team (NAT) to champion and support delivery of key initiatives across the Retail Channel.
- To continually improve retail execution, in line with annual planning priorities and Planning, Comms & Training framework within Retail Strategy & Operations.
- Ensuring that retailers are kept at the heart of retail plans by supporting an effective Retailer contact model to achieve sales, profit and Good Cause contribution targets in line with Allwyn’s fourth licence bid commitments.
- The team owns the development and execution of the Go to Market planning process which ensures all Retail priorities, timings, requirements are aligned to the overarching delivery of the consumer plan.
What you’ll be doing…
- Support improving Retail channel operations, capabilities, processes, and tools.
- Understand and develop the requirements of GEM suite capability for the NAT user base.
- Support development of ways to deliver industry leading in store execution of The National Lottery across the Retail estate, taking into account format and sector nuances, by retailer.
- Support the Retail Planning Manager to shape and implement the strategic priorities within Retail Working Groups (PCT) and Go To Market frameworks for the NAT
- Collaborate cross functionally to feed recommendations and prioritisation of activities for all Retail teams.
- Monitor and action any new requests for the RS&OPs team via internal process.
- Support the building of yearly and quarterly Retail Contact Model and the delivery of briefings, via face to face conferences &/or virtual meetings to the Retail Sales Team through Call Smart.
- Support the NAT through monitoring and flagging of issues through Champ groups.
- Support the building of decks and documents to cascade information to retail functions through their team meetings and regular workgroups such as Retail Channels Steering Group.
- Work closely with the Supply Chain team on NAT bootstock orders.
- Support with the scratchcard returns process through the collation of Scratchcard return bags that are to be sent to retailers during a closure.
- Work with the Operational Sales Team to build and provide call files for activities that are being supported across Retail
- Working closely with Retail Sales Managers on day to day issue resolution and cascading any relevant risk or escalation.
- Working with the other Retail Planning Executives to attend weekly game status meetings and feed back to the planning team.
What experience we’re looking for…
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of retail execution including brand activation.
- Experience and knowledge of successful selling and influencing skills.
- Skilled in prioritisation and multi-task management under pressure.
- Ability to understand key business operational reporting.
- Advanced ability to use the Microsoft Office suite, Google Suite
- Proven experience working cross-functionally to deliver complex projects with multiple deliverables and priorities.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills and is able to present confidently to senior managers and teams.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Commercially minded- able to identify opportunities.
- Naturally curious, challenges the norm, whilst being receptive and considerate to other ways of approaching things.
Key Measures of Success:
- Ability to take a brief, put your stakeholders and retailers at the heart of your thinking, and transform this into actionable asks to either improve operations or bring new idea to life.
About us:
We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better.
- Innovation - We pride ourselves on it! We’re constantly looking for new ways to excite our customers, bringing new products to enjoy which is all underpinned by our responsible play values and making them accessible to all.
- Giving back – Did you know that playing the lottery generates around £30m a week for charities and good causes in the UK? Our aim is to have doubled this number by the end of the first 10 year licence
- Sustainability – Our aim to be net zero by 2030 which would make us the first lottery provider globally to achieve this
- Inclusion and accessibility – We are making all parts of The National Lottery inclusive – whether you play a game in a store or online.
If you need any assistance or adjustments to this job description or in the application process, please contact a member of the talent team at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help.
**Being the custodians of the National Lottery license is a big responsibility, so all of our roles are subject to extensive background checks**
An inclusive reward offering with wellbeing at the centre…
At Allwyn, we’ve put together a range of inclusive benefits and policies to support our colleagues at every stage of their lives and careers.
Here’s a list of some of the fantastic benefits we offer…
- Company bonus scheme
- Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
- 26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days (and bank holidays)
- Complimentary Private Medical
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
- £500 wellness allowance
- Access to nutritional advisor and personal trainers
- Discounted Health Assessments
- Complimentary Financial coaching
Our benefits and policies reflect our commitment to wellbeing and inclusivity and are enhanced with features that benefit our colleagues (and their families). By offering a variety of benefits that support our colleagues, we continue to create a place of work where people feel rewarded and can succeed.
A place of belonging…
We want to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
We are a Disability Confident Leader which means we’ve taken proactive steps to ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive for disabled colleagues and candidates. As part of this we offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential requirements of the job.
