Allwyn North America

Project Manager

• Preparation of business cases in conjunction with stakeholders and finance in order to gain financial approvals prior to the mobilization of project teams.
• Overseeing the whole project delivery, ensuring exceptional customer service and high quality technical solutions.
• Leading a matrix team made up of marketing, finance, digital, retail sales, business analysts, technical architects and software focused delivery leads – each with responsibilities for major workstreams.
• Coordinating 3rd parties and interdependencies – including technical providers, design agencies and other vendors.
• Aligning analysis, development, systems integration, test and infrastructure teams, and several 3rd party vendors, to deliver the project with maximum efficiency.
• Budget management, tracking and board level reporting responsibilities for the entire project.
• Work with a number of internal colleagues and external stakeholders in order to deliver objectives.
• Build productive relationships with 3rd party subcontractors and stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate appropriately up to an Executive level and effective at influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• Filter noise in order to get to the issue, and to ensure that other more senior stakeholders understand the important issues, risks and decisions that they need to make.

Public Relations

• Help increase win belief statewide
• Conduct outreach and serve as a primary contact for Lottery winners and Lottery retailers selling winning tickets to gather and share their winning stories
• Regularly visit the Chicago and Des Plaines prize claim centers to collect winner stories and encourage photo assets to share via owned channels
• Develop and implement PR plans to support brand building around the Lottery’s central promise of ‘fun games, create winners, and support special causes’ in Illinois
• Support the PR team to breathe life into the Illinois Lottery brand through the development of innovative consumer PR initiatives.
• Help to promote the Lottery’s role in generating funding for education and other good causes, as required.
• Help to significantly increase the brand presence of the Illinois Lottery through earned and owned media.
• Proactively pitch members of the news media to place winner stories and other stories about the Lottery’s contributions to good causes.
• Serve as liaison to Lottery Claim Center managers throughout the State to maximize winner PR opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the development of integrated communication campaigns to support business objectives and act as the key PR contact on projects.
• Produce weekly media reports and ensure media lists are maintained and kept up-to-date.
• Provide simple media analysis to support internal reporting requirements (monthly governance reports).
• Maintain and regularly refresh a library of creative assets (imagery, video, animations etc.) to support storytelling opportunities

Public Relations Specialist

Content Writer

• Draft, edit, and refine assigned proposal sections
• Review, edit, and refine content drafted by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Apply advanced persuasive writing techniques to strengthen winning themes
• Provide ongoing support for the development and maintenance of bid content
• Verify that the assigned written content is compliant with the RFP instructions before final compilation
• May help draft and refine B2B/B2G content as assigned

Project Manager

Public Relations Specialist

Bid Writer – Contract Position