This role provides strategic project governance and delivery leadership across multiple game development initiatives within the Studio. This role ensures the successful end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary projects, driving alignment between stakeholders, optimising resource utilisation, and shaping best-practice project methodologies across the studio.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for the delivery of multiple concurrent game projects, ensuring they meet scope, quality, time, and cost objectives.
• Responsible for defining, maintaining, and optimising studio-wide delivery frameworks, processes, and governance standards.
• Responsible for ensuring the game teams are following the correct game delivery processes.
• Responsible for creating Game Delivery plans, and overall capacity forecasting, for both Interactive and retail markets. This includes aligning studio resources to the overall demand plan.
• Responsible for scheduling and running gates. This includes collating all the necessary documentation for each gate stage.
• Responsible for the tracking and reporting costs and progress on all studio games. This includes the escalation of delivery, cost, or scope risks early and implementing mitigation strategies that maintain project delivery stability.
• Responsible for the overseeing project managers and product owners, ensuring that all roles within the project delivery are aligned, working effectively to deliver the studio roadmap.
• Responsible for providing and maintaining best practice guidance for project managers and product owners within the studio.
• Responsible for scheduling project kick-offs.
• Responsible for working to help obtain external approvals for games e.g. Compliance, Legal, Customer approvals. This includes handling communication with third party bodies where necessary.
• Responsible for communicating project progress to roadmap owners.
• Responsible for the timely delivery of game packages to the Release Team.
• Responsible for leading continuous improvement efforts to enhance delivery timescales and quality across the studio.
• Responsible for the mentoring, coaching, and supporting project managers and product owners helping them strengthen delivery skills and progress in their careers.

Required Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in project management withing a complex delivery environment.
• Proven success in leading delivery for multi-disciplinary teams across multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong communication and collaborative skills
• Good understanding of project management and product ownership methodologies
• Proficiency in Project Management tools e.g. MS Project, Monday.com
  Beneficial Experience
  
  • Project management and Product Ownership within the gaming industry.
  • Formal Project management qualification e.g Prince 2

At Inspired, we feel it's vital that our people are rewarded. We regularly compare our salaries against other companies to ensure we're competitive and aligned with the market. We'll also review your basic pay every year.

So, when you say yes to Inspired, we'll give you access to our reward package.

We're constantly reviewing the details of the package to ensure it has everything our people want in a benefits scheme, but the things you can enjoy currently include:

• Holidays - You are entitled to a minimum of 25 days statutory holiday per year plus bank holidays. If you work part-time this will be pro-rated.
• Pension - We're aware of how important it is to save for retirement. And at Inspired, we want to help you along the way, which is why we offer an excellent Defined Contribution pension plan that meets and exceeds auto-enrolment requirements.
• Life Assurance - From day one, you'll receive life assurance coverage.
• Shares - From time-to-time we are able to offer discounted or enhanced Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
• Enhanced Family Leave - For many of our people, starting a family is an important part of their life journey. When you choose Inspired, you join a company that knows how important it is that you get the time to welcome your new addition, so we enhance all of our family leave entitlements - Maternity, Shared Parental, Adoption and Paternity.
• Salary Sacrifice - Join one of our Salary Sacrifice schemes, cycle-to-work or pension contributions, and you could save money on tax and National Insurance.
• Recognition - At Inspired we want to acknowledge our dedicated employees. The Inspiration Awards is a recognition scheme open to all our employees, rewarding those who have gone the extra mile in embodying our Core Principles at Inspired. There is a quarterly prize awarded by the Executive Management Team as well as runner up prizes. An annual Carrington Award prize is awarded to one of the quarterly prize winners, judged by our President and Chief Operating Officer.
• Health & Well-being - At Inspired, your well-being is a top priority; we want you to be the best you can be. That is why we'll offer you a private healthcare savings scheme with BHSF and an Employee Assistance program intended to help you, your partner or your children deal with any personal problems that might adversely impact work performance, health, and well-being. As a caring company, we try hard to accommodate family life and personal commitments and believe that goodwill is essential to a happy and productive member of the team.
• Social - Each office has a social committee that organizes company-funded events and other activities such as charity days, tuck shops, and inter-team competitions. It is important to us that you feel part of the Inspired family.
• Flexible & Hybrid Working - Where we can offer a flexible or hybrid approach to working, we do. Not all our roles can accommodate this, but we understand and value the benefits of work-life balance and autonomy. If your role can accommodate it, we believe it's not about where you work, but more about the value that you bring.
• Birthday Leave - To celebrate your birthday, you'll be able to take a day off work anytime during the calendar month of your birthday.
• Annual Leave Buy and Sell - You are entitled to buy and sell up to five days of holiday each year.
• Employee discounts - You'll get access to the Benefits Website, which offers a range of discounts including entry to attractions, theme parks, shopping, gifts and holidays discounts, Corporate Perks which offers further discounts: on travel, holidays, electronics, utilities and fashion and discounts on the Warner Leisure Group of hotels.

For more information about Inspired:

Website: https://www.inseinc.com/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspired-entertainment-inc

Gender Pay Gap info: https://careers.inseinc.com/genderpaygap/

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