IT Manager - Gaming Products jobs in United States
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Caesars Entertainment · 8 hours ago

IT Manager - Gaming Products

Caesars Entertainment is the largest casino-entertainment company in the U.S. and is seeking an IT Manager for Gaming Products. This role involves organizing and deploying enterprise-wide standards within Gaming-related applications and managing various IT projects to support business processes.

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Responsibilities

Develop and maintain project plans, risk assessments and performance metrics to support implementation activities, completion of tasks, and manage scope for assigned projects
Manage the definition, design, development, and programming for a product or project
Interpret and/or manage the standards process to ensure compliance
Prepare I.T. soft cost budgets and present them to local management for approval. Monitor expenses against I.T. capital cost budgets (ranging from 1 to 5 million dollars per project) and provide budgetary analysis when needed
Demonstrate understanding of basic standard internal processes and procedures including project prioritization, governance approach, capital process, budgeting, financial management, and time management
Demonstrate a working knowledge of the basics of business operations, financial systems, and compliance/regulatory requirements
Facilitate performance management consistently and fairly across teams
Act as a consultant to property client and local management during hotel/casino start-ups, expansions, conversions, and other projects assigned. Ensure project scope remains 'in alignment' with stated departmental objectives, client business needs, and budgetary measures
Maintain frequent high-quality communications with property teams and all other affected individuals/ areas of projects and support, including project meetings, project plans, financial performance, project scope, and key assumptions, dates, etc
Establish and maintain good working relationships with property clients, users, service providers, product managers, and specific project team members
Responsible for attracting, hiring, retaining and motivating staff as well as managing resources to meet business objectives. Responsible for employee termination when necessary
Conduct project performance reviews as well as ongoing assessment of strengths and weaknesses. Provide or secure the training necessary to ensure optimum job performance
Manage relationships with 4 to 10 vendors. Write and/or evaluate requests for proposals. Review contracts. Develop understanding of vendor organizations. Manage problem escalation/resolution within the vendor organization. Understand and articulate resource plans and requirements- non-discretionary vs. discretionary, analysis for giving the business choices. Perform variance analysis on an ongoing basis
Manage resources to ensure delivery on time/on target/on budget
Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion

Qualification

Business management experiencePlatformsTechnical knowledge of processesBudget managementProject managementVendor managementCommunication skillsTeam leadership

Required

5-8 years related business management experience
Above average communications skills, both verbal and written
Requires understanding of underlying platform(s); knowledge of the interdependencies between platforms; knowledge of standards and impact of non-standard approaches
Technical knowledge of business processes and procedures and underlying technical workings of systems to support it; ability to maximize system to support business processes, recommend and influence business process changes to maximize use of system
Bachelor's degree in business management or a computer science-related field or 5-8 years of equivalent experience

Preferred

Familiarity with Casino Operations is desired

Company

Caesars Entertainment

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Caesars Entertainment, Inc. is the largest casino-entertainment Company in the U.S.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Martin Logan
Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO CTO)
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Kenneth Fuchs
COO and Head of Sports
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