Portfolio & Roadmap Manager - 12 Months FTC

Allwyn UK; Watford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A multi-national lottery operator in Watford is seeking a Roadmap Development Manager to lead transformation initiatives. This role requires exceptional communication skills and strong business acumen to ensure effective collaboration with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has proven experience in roadmap development and the ability to navigate a regulated environment. You will support strategic planning, engage with senior business leaders, and efficiently communicate project updates while ensuring alignment with organisational goals.

Benefits

26 days paid leave

Annual bonus scheme

Life insurance

Pension scheme

Private health cover

£500 Wellness Allowance

Enhanced parental leave

Eye Care and Dental schemes

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to influence at senior levels.
• Strong business acumen with strategic planning understanding.
• Proven experience in roadmap development and portfolio management.
• Proficiency in roadmap and planning tools like Jira and Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the visual representation of the roadmap.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Communicate roadmap changes and prioritisation decisions clearly.
• Support creating robust business cases aligned with strategic objectives.

Skills

Exceptional communication skills

Business acumen

Roadmap development

Proficiency with planning tools

Ability to work in regulated environments

Tools

Jira

Power BI

Job description

The Roadmap Development Manager plays a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining a single, integrated transformation roadmap for the organisation. Acting as the primary liaison between business functions and the change and portfolio team, this role ensures that strategic needs are understood, prioritised, and accurately represented in planning processes. Operating within a highly regulated environment, the role requires balancing pace with integrity, breaking down siloes, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to deliver joined-up outcomes.

What you’ll be doing…

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior business stakeholders (e.g., Heads of Product, Head of Digital & Retail Operations).
• Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring alignment between business priorities and roadmap planning.

Requirement Gathering & Demand Management

• Partner with business leaders to articulate and document strategic needs and demand requests.
• Ensure all requests meet defined entry criteria and are captured in the demand pipeline.

Roadmap Development & Communication

• Develop and maintain the visual representation of the roadmap, ensuring clarity on priorities, dependencies, and timelines.
• Present roadmap updates to governance forums and senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making.

Voice of the Customer

• Represent business needs during prioritisation discussions, advocating for customer and commercial requirements while balancing regulatory and operational constraints.

Expectation Management

• Communicate roadmap changes, prioritisation decisions, and project status updates back to business stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.

Business Case Support

• Collaborate with business owners to support the creation of robust business cases, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and compliance requirements.

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’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.

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.

Allwyn is 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.

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 [e-mail] and we’ll be happy to help.

Essential

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of strategic planning processes.
• Proven experience in roadmap development, portfolio management, or demand planning.
• Proficiency with roadmap and planning tools (e.g. Jira, Power BI).
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment while maintaining governance and integrity.

Desirable

• Experience in gambling, lottery, or other regulated industries.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.

Benefits

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• £500 Wellness Allowance
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes