Website Hollywoodbets
Hollywoodbets have been revolutionising betting within South Africa since 1999 and we are currently making inroads further into Southern Africa. As a frontrunner in our industry we are always finding new ways to give our customers the best betting experience. Our sports betting site features a la… read morerge variety of events and markets to bet on, with expert betting support both online and in store. We offer local and international horse racing betting, an extensive range of sports betting from soccer to American Sports as well as our fantastic Lucky Numbers international lottery offering. Betting is offered 365 days a year. We are also proud to provide live betting with our Live In-Play and Betgames Africa options. After opening our first branch in Durban in the year 1999 we took the leap and joined the online community with the launch of our website www.hollywoodbets.net in 2006. Our mobisite www.hollywoodbets.mobi was created soon after that in 2009 as the business expanded. Hollywoodbets now has over 80 branches spread across six of South Africa’s provinces as well as one branch in Mozambique. Additionally, we provide our customers with a variety of betting platforms including USSD betting, via our Phone-A-Bet call centre, the mobisite and website as well as the feature phone application. Our values include service excellence, commitment to achieving our objectives, ubuntu, integrity, innovation, enthusiasm and accountability, and they underpin everything we do. For that reason we believe in investing in our team, and we’ve seen many people rise through the ranks. Hollywoodbets strongly believes in investing in the communities that we operate in, and we support charitable organisations and grassroots sports teams around SA on an annual basis. For more on the Hollywoodbets My Community Programme please visit our dedicated sites http://csi.hollywoodbets.net/ and http://sponsor.hollywoodbets.net/.
Job Description
Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.
We have amazing opportunities for X4 Product Specialists. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?
The successful candidates will be responsible for managing iBranch online products with a focus on analyzing daily figures for various sports and products such as slots and other traditional casino games. The Ideal candidates will be responsible for maintaining current betting platforms and introducing new features, solutions, analysis, and products in order to increase revenue and market share through online betting offerings.
With Hollywoodbets You Will:
Innovate and create as part of a like-minded, authentic Team eager to achieve goals.
Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast-paced industry.
Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you to further your career.
You Bring:
Reporting experience.
Sports betting knowledge.
A Bonus To Have:
Degree / Diploma in a related field.
Valid driver’s license and own vehicle.
What You’ll Do For The Brand:
Maintain all current betting platforms (mobisite, website, USSD) by identifying shortfalls and introducing new features and solutions.
Provide overall leadership and direction in the development of betting platforms.
Identify innovations and assessment of Competitors.
Develop and drive software development project plans and specifications, estimating time requirements, establishing deadlines, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases throughout implementation, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress and coordinating actions.
Ensure enhancement of the Mobisite, Website, Syx, refer a Friend, TUV and other Company products and Improve the functionality for the end users of these applications.
Evaluate consumer understanding and insights- Consumer experience with the Brand and possible enhancements where required.
Competitor analysis reporting.
Project lead all product testing before releasing to live environment.
Market awareness and strong Relationship Management abilities.
Identify root causes of customer and audit queries and look at ways and initiatives to reduce specific customer/audit queries where appropriate, based on the nature of the query.
Any other ad hoc duties that might be required.
Communicate with departments to identify work shortfalls and areas where the development team can assist in improving work processes.
Assist and advise the developers and software architects on how an application should work, what needs are to be met and dictate the flow and user interface to determine what the users must see by providing them with Business Requirement Documents.
Conduct and supervise group testing of complete applications and software.
Identify and eliminate the factors within the applications that may pose a risk to the business.
Market research and product development.
New business ideas and improving current business work practices.
Involvement in making user manuals for system applications.
Working closely with our betting traders and ensuring we maintain the desired GGR margins and implementing measures and strategies to correct instances where this objective is not met.
Dealing with all betting-related queries for clients.
Analyze risk and fraud related to the product.
Analyze the odds relevance and accuracy.
Highlighting high-risk or high-spend/win clients.
Defining functionality required front and back end of SyX and mobisite/web.
Report on product performance and metrics.
Assist with the completion of the BRD for integration and enhancements.
Perform testing on functionality and odds of all product releases.
Key link between Software Development and the business.
Negotiates commercials relating to the product.
Creates BRD through collaboration with Betting Product Owner.
Perform full-cycle testing of product functionality and odds .
Drive Marketing plans for the product within iBranch/retail.
Ensure sufficient handover to Betting Product Owner before a live release.
Review Contracts, looking for additional value or reduction in commercials .
Setting up strategic meetings with partners to grow figures, implement strategies, and add products.
Dealing with compliance for GB approvals across all provinces
What You’ll Bring To The Team:
Impressive business acumen and in-depth market awareness.
Must be innovative, pro-active and a strategic thinker.
Ability to take accountability and entail great problem-solving skills.
Good report writing skills.
Must be results driven.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Apply via company website ( N / A ) or
hollywood.simplify.hr