Senior Project Manager Porto

Overview

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and i
Gaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide. We are serious about Tech. We are
- solvers with big ambitions, keeping a
- first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges. Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The Role:

The Senior Project Manager will work with key business stakeholders, external technology partners, and
- functional teams across the Flutter UKI business to lead
- impact initiatives from concept to customer delivery. Trusted to ensure successful outcomes, this role drives delivery through effective planning, proactive risk management, and clear communication with all relevant stakeholders. As an experienced leader in project delivery, you will bring deep expertise across the full project lifecycle and be recognised as a trusted point of escalation and
- making. You will oversee the planning of product and technology initiatives, informed by prioritisation inputs, and own supplier relationships from a technology perspective. Reporting to the Programme Manager, this role will require occasional travel to other Flutter International locations.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Plan, oversee, and report on the delivery of highly complex initiatives, ensuring alignment with agreed objectives and timelines.
• Lead proactive risk, issue, and dependency management to protect delivery outcomes.
• Manage stakeholder expectations across all business levels — executive, senior management, operational, and delivery — through clear governance and regular reporting.
• Contribute to the overall prioritisation process, communicate agreed priorities, ensure alignment, and drive actions to achieve them.
• Identify and remove blockers to maintain delivery momentum and enable teams to progress effectively.
• Facilitate technology input into investment requests, supporting the Programme Manager in drafting business cases.
• Collaborate with delivery teams on resource allocation, planning, and driving efficiencies using Agile Scrum practices.
• Coordinate technical due diligence for new suppliers and clearly articulate commercial inputs.
• Generate reports from Agile tooling to measure delivery effectiveness and address challenges in Scrum adoption.
• Work as a team player in a
  - paced environment, collaborating with technical and commercial teams to achieve desired outcomes.

What You’ll Bring

Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience leading complex,
  - value projects with measurable business outcomes.
• Expert in the full software delivery lifecycle, with proven success in adopting and scaling Agile Scrum across multiple teams or divisions.
• Aligns delivery with strategic outcomes, ensuring solutions contribute directly to enterprise architecture and
  - term business objectives.
• Oversees multiple concurrent projects from concept to benefits realisation and
  - implementation review.
• Inspires and influences
  - functional teams, driving alignment with organisational goals and fostering high performance in challenging environments.
• Recognised for
  - driven leadership, delivering consistently within demanding timelines.
• Strong track record of managing complex customer engagements to completion, achieving high satisfaction and lasting relationships.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, adept at navigating senior executive relationships and building trust through openness, transparency, and respect.
• Champions organisational change, embedding continuous improvement into core values, principles, and practices.
• Maintains momentum in
  - paced environments through agility, decisiveness, and a focus on quality outcomes.
• Coaches, mentors, and develops delivery teams to strengthen organisational capability in Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Leads integration and implementation of complex
  - party products and platforms in
  - scale environments.
• Communicates complex issues clearly and effectively for varied audiences, from executive leadership to delivery teams and external partners.

Competencies:

• Customer Obsessed: Drives process improvements that help the business establish and maintain effective customer relationships; gains insight and stays attuned to current and emerging customer needs; uses customer insights to build and identify creative and improved solutions; holds self and others accountable for delivering services that meet customer expectations.
• Effective Communicator: Models effective communication; provides clarity on business goals; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; communicates with timely and helpful information across the organisation.
• Hungry for Results: Drives self and others to achieve great results with agility, pace and energy; has a track record of exceeding goals when leading teams across multiple locations and functions; acts with integrity and is trusted to deliver on commitments.
• Wins Together: Collaborates across networks to get work done; promotes continuous improvement and enhances collaboration among others.
• Commercially Savvy: Keeps up to date with trends and business developments; uses knowledge to shape decisions and actions to positively impact business drivers.
• Quality Decision Maker: Makes quality decisions at pace, even in ambiguity; considers inputs and
  - offs to arrive at effective recommendations.
• Talent Focused: Focuses on developing others and continuous learning; identifies successors and fosters diverse talent.

Equality and Inclusion: At Blip, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds and ways of thinking to apply. We are committed to including everyone regardless of race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. We welcome adjustments to apply; please contact accommodations@blip. pt for accessibility needs.

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.