Niall Quinn

Responsible for a wide range of metrics including, but not limited to;

• Market performance tracking and analysis
• Detailed odds compilation
• Mentoring
• Innovative market ideation, pricing, testing and creation
• Identifying automated solutions to complex processes
• Pricing strategies and improvements
• Comprehensive stakeholder influencing

I was largely responsible for driving growth in player markets in particular, an increasingly key area in customer growth and retention and an area we had struggled with in more recent times. I was also a key contributor to the training and development of junior members of the team. I worked closely with the head of and director of football in strategising and aligning on initiatives which were key to the commercial success of the football product. I also had a wide range of other responsibilities that were operational and analytical in nature and all contributed to the significant success of the football trading product in recent times.

As a Specialist trader, my responsibilities increased significantly and included the following

• Market performance optimisation
• Detailed competitor analysis
• Upskilling newer members of the team
• Identifying and pursuing potential automated solutions to some basic processes
• Cross-function colloboration with a view to improving market offering
• Pricing sheets creation, optimisation and refinement
• Basic odds compilation
• Example-setting on operational tasks

While the above are the key responsibilities I had, I would have been involved in a significant number of other initiatives and projects during this time which vastly improved, in particular, the extra and derivative market offering we had across a wide variety of sports and not just football. This was a an especially transformative period for me in my career as I vastly improved my trading and compilation skills and quickly became a senior member of the team who was a go-to person for all technical and pricing queries both within my own team and beyond.

While I had a couple of other similar roles between this (my first role) and becoming a specialist trader, I feel this is an important one to include as it was something a bit new for me at the time. My responsibilites in this role included

• Market creation, management and settlement
• Innovative market ideation
• Market analysis (with a view to optimising liquidity)

Once more, the above would have been the key responsibilties in my remit, however I would have had a number of additional minor responsibilities on top of these. I feel this was a very influential period for me as I got to see first hand exactly how the betting exchange works, how it's priced, who's pricing it and a significantly more comprehensive understanding of what these prices meant in terms of probabilities and likelihoods of events happening. It also gave me my first taste of just how important high operational standards are when managing some of the biggest exchange markets in the world and how attention to detail was a priority in ensuring both stakeholder and customer satisfaction.