North American Sports Basketball Trader

The NA Trader will be asked to operate sports betting for a variety of North American events. The person must have good team working skills and must be detailed and analytical regarding Line and Risk Management and customers’ wagering activity. The NA Trader must make sure that all tasks and duties are properly communicated and executed, with quick response times on all our communication channels such as Mattermost. The role also requires a professional employee who can work under pressure.

All NA Traders will work across a range of tasks, but each one will be assigned a sport/ task as their primary duty and area of focus. This primary role is described in further detail below.

Responsibilities:

▪ Understanding of operations for matches and markets, Pre-Match, In Play and Props across a range of sports. Ability to perform a range of shift duties across these areas.

▪ Adjusting odds and lines for NA Sports in accordance with the Global Trading Policy and for the maximization of performance in the long term. Unless unavoidable (due to interruption or major error), feeds should remain operational and our full suite of tools used to achieve aims and/or directives from senior colleagues.

▪ Analysing sources, wagers, profiles and information to swiftly spot areas where our offering needs to be corrected.

▪ Entering results and checking feed accuracy, adding/checking events, event titles and notes.

▪ Track incoming bets and use them to facilitate accurate decisions in real time.

▪ Develop the ability to apply profiling techniques.

▪ Monitoring our website, forums, social media and communications from internal partners (such as customer withdrawals function) to assist with group operations.

▪ Working collaboratively within the NA team and the wider group to facilitate the best outcome for the group and our customers.

▪ Any other tasks required by Management.

Primary Duty:

▪ Primary role may be changed to suit individual or business with at least one month’s notice

given.

▪ You are expected to be able to deliver opinions and value to company to improve our offering, our policies and our procedures.

▪ You should be capable of testing basic new releases/services that will directly impact your primary area.

▪ If given responsibility for a sub-section of your primary area, you are expected to demonstrate care, diligence and both operational & technical expertise in your management of that area.

If one of a) Basketball, b) Football, c) Baseball.

▪ Within selected sport, you must be able to perform all duties as requested to a high level within 3 months of role starting.

▪ You must develop an in-depth knowledge of the sport, including our own betting rules, the rules and norms of the sport itself, and a day-to-day ingestion/use of news related to the sport.

If d) Props…

▪ You are expected to contribute to the maximization of appropriate content on any event with significant public interest.

▪ You should demonstrate sufficient skill in odds compilation to create odds for Props, and to detect errors within our own offering and in the market.

If e) Profiling…

▪ You must always adhere to the latest version of the Global Profiling Guidelines.

▪ You are expected to understand profiling concepts in your study of customer behavior and their wagering activity.

▪ Your decision making should guarantee that no client goes undetected for the wider group - that all uncategorized/incorrectly categorized players are either re-profiled or escalated to senior colleagues quickly.

▪ Previous experience in a similar role, trading NA sports lines

▪ Proven knowledge on trading markets and industry trends

▪ Intermediate knowledge of the assigned sport preferred

▪ Broad knowledge of major NA Sports (NFL, NBA, MLB)

▪ Be able to work unsupervised and under pressure

▪ Responsible and respectful

▪ Have a good eye to detail, analytical mindset preferred

▪ Flexible working times required, including weekends and non-regular working hours (Monday-Sunday; 2 days off; earliest 7am-5pm latest)

▪ Role will be offered as Hybrid after probation.