Group Manager - Value Delivery and Change

The Dutch Postcode Lottery; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 755,612 - 971,502; Full time

Job summary

The Dutch Postcode Lottery is searching for a Group Manager – Value Delivery and Change to shape their Group Data & Analytics initiatives. Located in Stockholm, Edinburgh, or Amsterdam, you will focus on driving measurable business impact through strategic data initiatives.

In this pivotal role, you will lead a strategic team, collaborate closely with cross-functional groups, and ensure data products deliver lasting value. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential as you navigate complexity and influence decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and stakeholder management.
• Background in Product Management or similar roles.
• Deep understanding of analytics and AI.
• Excellent communication to articulate complex concepts.
• Experience in talent management and workforce development.

Responsibilities

• Shape value and adoption approach for Group Data & Analytics.
• Develop and improve the data operating model.
• Drive adoption of data products across markets.
• Create transparency around value and delivery progress.
• Lead a strategic team and foster collaboration.

Skills

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Product Management experience

Data foundations understanding

Excellent communication skills

Programme planning

Collaboration skills

Job description

Do you thrive on leading through change and bringing people together? Join us to shape the future as Group Manager – Value Delivery and Change. This role can be based in Stockholm, Edinburgh or Amsterdam.

Driving innovation across markets This is a defining moment to join us. We are creating scalable, best-in-class digital products, platforms, and experiences for millions of players across multiple countries. Our focus is simple: build once, scale everywhere.

To drive this forward, we have established Group Data & Analytics, a new international function bringing together talented people across BI, Data Management, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, and Analytics. Together, we are building the best models, tools, products, and practices that will help us innovate faster, collaborate smarter, and create more value and impact across our lotteries.

We are now looking for an entrepreneurial, people-focused senior leader who wants to play a critical role in turning this ambition into impact. You will bring clarity to complexity, shape how we set priorities and deliver data and analytical products, and help enable growth and innovation that ultimately contributes to strengthening hundreds of charities.

How you will make a difference

As Group Manager – Value Delivery & Change you will play a key role in shaping how Group Data & Analytics creates value across Postcode Lottery Group. You’ll work at the intersection of data, product, delivery, and change — making sure we focus on the right opportunities, build scalable capabilities, and create solutions that can be adopted across markets. Your role will be to bring clarity where there is complexity, connect the right people around the right priorities, and help us move from ideas to measurable value.

Reporting to the Group Data & Analytics Director, who is based in Amsterdam, you’ll have a direct line into the strategic direction of our data and analytics journey. Your insights on value, delivery progress, adoption, and organizational change will help shape decisions at group level. You’ll lead a strategic team, including roles such as Data Demand Owner, Business Strategy Lead, and Analytics Translator, while working closely with data and analytics teams. Together, you’ll create momentum and alignment, ensuring that our data and analytics products deliver lasting value for our business.

This is what you’ll do:

• Shape and embed a clear value and adoption approach for Group Data & Analytics, ensuring we focus on the right priorities and turn data initiatives into measurable business impact.
• Develop and continuously improve the data operating model, aligning ways of working, governance, and delivery with the group strategy and data & analytics roadmap.
• Drive adoption of scalable data and analytics products across markets.
• Create transparency around value, progress, risks, and dependencies, enabling better decisions, stronger alignment, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and develop a strategic team, fostering collaboration, curiosity, and a strong focus on impact during a period of growth and change.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and stakeholder management, with the ability to develop and execute a data strategy, including assessing value of initiatives and objectives.
• You have a background in Product Management or similar product-led roles.
• Skills in business processes and awareness of product development processes.
• Deep understanding and experience of data foundations, analytics, and AI.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex data concepts and influence organisational change.
• Expertise in talent management, change management, and workforce development, particularly in data-related roles.
• Proven experience in programme planning, prioritisation, and issue escalation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and build relationships with cross-functional teams and influence decision‑making at all organisational levels.

The Postcode Lottery Group is building a Data and Analytics department to provide our lotteries with the right models, tools, tech, and best-practices to help realize our growth ambition. In this hub you will be working together with business representatives to identify value adding business cases for advanced statistical analytics. You will be working on exciting and challenging BI, data & AI projects that create real impact for the lotteries and our beneficiary organizations.