Director of Strategy and Operations

Why Bally's?

Bally’s Corporation is one of the world’s leading entertainment companies, with millions of players across digital gaming platforms and traditional casino venues. Recognized for our innovation, energy, and dedication to creating thrilling gaming experiences, we were born to entertain.

A career with Bally’s means starting on a path to endless possibilities. Our growing business is searching for service-minded individuals looking for a place to build and grow, excel, and truly make a difference. So, if you want to be challenged in an exciting and fast-paced environment, this is the place for you!

The Role:

The Director of Strategy & Operations will be responsible for implementing a variety of dynamic reporting and analytics efforts in support of multiple business units (BUs): Development, Human Resources, Program, and Program Design.  While this person will have an analytical mindset, they will be adept at simplifying highly technical information for a non-technical audience. Specifically, the ideal candidate will be an equal part data designer/visualist and analyst with a strong reporting and analytics skillset and the ability to thrive in an environment that leverages agile principles to deliver work tasks on time. The Director will utilize multiple analytics techniques, and effective communication skills to provide integrated data-driven and actionable insights to support key stakeholders in making critical business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Conducts insightful, ad hoc analyses to investigate ongoing or one-time operational issues.
• Uses expertise in data structure to build new capabilities for the organization using data analytics.
• Creates reporting and analytics roadmap that establishes key milestones and deliverables, in support of current and future business needs and requirements.
• Ensures that timely, accurate and insightful reporting is developed and published for use.
• Manages and/or partners with consultants to create and deliver reporting dashboards and action-oriented insights to inform program success.
• Partners with Bally’s teams across all regions, in developing reports and dashboards with metrics that inform them how well they are doing to meet key performance targets and indicators.
• Consults with Development teams and conducts analyses, including formulating analytical approaches, performing data extraction and exploration, and translating results into actionable insights.
• Leverages statistical techniques to build multivariate analyses and/or predictive /explanatory models that address key strategic projects, topics, and questions.
• Proactively focuses on the discovery of insights to help the organization make smarter decisions.
• Works with cross-functional stakeholders across various Business Units, to define business requirements around data and reporting needs for analysis and ensure accurate results.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to develop consistent and reliable structured definitions for data and/or metrics for use in reporting and analysis.
• Ensures all program and development dashboards and reports are delivered in a fast and timely manner, are of high quality, and continue to be refreshed and enhanced for organization decision making and performance measurement and tracking.
• Creates presentations to help illustrate data in ways that are appropriate and easy for stakeholders to understand.
• Participates in, and in some instances leads, data governance meetings and provides content/insight to the discussion.
• Clearly communicates analysis and complex concepts to non-subject matter experts orally and in writing.
• Develops documentation for each analysis conducted and/or dashboard report developed.
• Prepares research, reports, summaries, presentations, and other materials that summarize findings for internal and external audiences.
• Creates and manages a learning community (both virtual and in-person) of members engaged in data and analysis of key data points.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience developing and using advanced analytics and reporting techniques
• Deep technical background in analytics, applied data science, and reporting, including, data visualization, statistics modeling, and descriptive analytics
• Experience collaborating with and/or managing consultants to deliver on reporting dashboards and/or predictive modeling tasks, as well as priority setting and managing day-to-day activities
• Strong computer skills, including advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, hands-on experience with Power BI, SQL and Python
• Ability to use business data to i