Managing Director - Dream Car Giveaways

Dream Car Giveaways is one of the UK’s leading online prize draw providers, with an established and trusted digital proposition operating at scale. Since 2018, the business has delivered 135k+ winners, run 3,000+ prize draws in the last twelve months, and awarded A$300 m+ in prizes.

We're part of Jumbo Interactive (ASX: JIN), a global digital lottery management business that partners with over 15,000 good causes worldwide and helped raise more than $260 million last financial year. Jumbo has grown over 30 years from a single computer to an ASX 300-listed technology company operating across Australia, the UK, the USA and Canada.

We're now looking for a Managing Director to lead DCG through its next phase of growth — with full P&L ownership, a high-performing digital consumer brand, and the backing of a global listed group.

What will you be doing?

This Managing Director role gives you the opportunity to lead Dream Car Giveaways through its next phase of growth. You will bring together commercial performance, operational delivery and brand evolution in a high-growth, consumer-facing business. Reporting directly to Mike Veverka, our Group CEO and Founder, with a dotted line to Brad Board, the Group COO, you will have overall accountability for business performance across marketing, operations, commercial planning and organisational leadership.

You will lead a well-established business with strong foundations, a proven customer proposition and ambitious growth plans. You will play a central role in protecting current performance while shaping the next stage of scale. This includes strengthening reporting, guiding the business through a founder transition period and helping position Dream Car Giveaways for sustainable long-term growth.

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

• Lead the overall performance of the Dream Car Giveaways business, with accountability for commercial delivery, operational execution and business planning.

• Own the business cadence across weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reviews, ensuring clear visibility of trading, delivery and financial outcomes.

• Partner with the founders during the transition period to maintain momentum, protect business performance and capture key operational knowledge.

• Direct the leadership team across core functions, including marketing and operations, to keep execution aligned with business priorities.

• Drive customer acquisition, retention and lifetime value across all channels, ensuring commercial performance is system-driven and data-led, not dependent on individual relationships.

• Develop board-ready reporting and commercial analysis that supports informed decision-making, strengthening forecasting accuracy, financial visibility and performance insights across revenue, EBITDA and cash generation.

• Collaborate with UK corporate services and group stakeholders to align local execution with wider business requirements and governance.

• Prepare the business for the adoption of Jumbo's technology platform, working through the operational and organisational implications of that change.

• Shape the growth plan beyond the current earn-out period, identifying practical opportunities to strengthen the core business and support expansion.

• Monitor market and sector developments that could affect trading conditions, customer demand or the operating environment, and reflect these in business planning.

What Success Looks Like:

First 30–60 Days

• Established strong relationships with founders, leadership and key stakeholders; created clarity on decision-making and priorities

• Gained a clear understanding of the business model, performance drivers, customer proposition and immediate operational risks

• Confirmed the current trading rhythm and identified critical transition priorities

First 3–6 Months

• Reduced founder and key-person reliance by institutionalising operational knowledge, systems and decision frameworks

• Established predictable operating rhythm, management disciplines and reporting cadence with improved visibility

• Assessed and strengthened the leadership team's capability for the post-founder environment

• Formalised commercial frameworks including customer ownership, pricing, sales and supplier management

First 12 Months

• Maintained stable business performance through the founder transition while delivering against growth and profitability targets

• Created a clearer operating model with stronger accountability, reporting quality and decision rights enforcement

• Built an independent management structure not reliant on personal intervention; improved succession planning

• Defined a credible growth plan beyond the earn-out period; strengthened market positioning and customer proposition

• Positioned the business for successful technology platform adoption

What You'll Be Able to Bring to the Role:

• Experience leading a sizeable B2C business or business unit with clear accountability for commercial performance, operations and team leadership

• Strong understanding of how customer-led businesses grow, including the relationship between product proposition, marketing effectiveness, brand positioning and retention

• Ability to lead in fast-paced, entrepreneurial or founder-led environments where leaders need to balance strategic thinking with close attention to execution

• Experience establishing predictable operating rhythms, replacing informal workarounds with clear processes and reducing operational volatility

• Commercial and financial capability to manage a meaningful P&L, interpret performance trends and make sound decisions based on business data

• Track record of assessing and strengthening leadership teams, building succession depth and creating management structures that don't rely on personal intervention

• Experience working in regulated or emerging regulatory environments, or consumer sectors such as e-commerce, digital consumer, gaming, FMCG or prize draws

• Track record of leading through periods of transition or professionalisation — including navigating cultural change, cross-functional decision-making and stakeholder complexity — while protecting business continuity and performance

• Practical leadership style suited to a lean organisation — strengthening capability and discipline without adding unnecessary complexity

• Experience working effectively across local and group stakeholders, combining independence in running the business with alignment to broader organisational goals

Salary and Benefits

Base salary: £170,000 – £200,000 GBP per year

In addition to base salary:

• Performance-based incentive (up to 50% of base salary)

• Car allowance

• Pension contribution

• 26 days of annual leave plus public holidays

• Optional private medical insurance

• Regular team-building events

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

Final package offer will depend on experience, capability and alignment to the role

Our Ways of Working

At Dream Car Giveaways, you will join a team based in an office surrounded by exceptional cars. Our hybrid working model includes four days in the office for collaboration and one day working from home for focused work. You will have the opportunity to influence key decisions as the business continues to grow.

Pre-Employment Checks

If you are offered a position, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks through our partner, Checkmate. These checks may include references, Right to Work in the UK and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We are, unfortunately, unable to offer sponsorship opportunities.

We are a 2026 Circle Back Initiative Gold Employer – we commit to responding to every applicant.