Senior Project Manager Porto

Senior Project Manager
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

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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.
  
  

Experience

What You’ll Bring:

• 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 will 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; understands and regularly communicates how
  -
  - day actions positively impact the bigger picture; provides clarity on business goals; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; provides timely and helpful information to others across the organisation putting others needs before their own and promotes effective communication; flexes communication style to meet the needs of various audiences.
• Hungry for Results: Drives self and others to achieve great results with agility, pace and energy; is always looking for ways to raise the performance bar and has a track record of exceeding goals when leading teams across multiple locations and functions; is a role model for being accountable and consistently delivering on what they've promised; shares their learnings and encourages their team to do the same; always acts with integrity and is trusted by stakeholders to deliver on all that is promised.
• Wins Together: Is a team
  - by working collaboratively is able to establish and engage networks to get work done; seeks out and facilitates the sharing of own and others' ideas, perspectives and inputs; models’ collaboration across the organisation; challenges how we get things done to seek ways of continuous improvement; takes steps to enhance collaboration among others.
• Commercially Savvy: Keeps up to date with current and future trends and business developments; uses this knowledge to shape and guide decisions and actions to positively impact our business drivers; provides insight on the business and industry, exploring opportunities to improve and is not afraid of change if required.
• Quality Decision Maker: Makes quality decisions at pace, even in ambiguous or challenging circumstances, recognising when an 80% solution will do; considers various inputs, decision criteria, and
  - offs to arrive at effective decisions and recommendations; supports others in making high quality decisions.
• Talent Focused: Aligns and drives career developmental goals with Flutter International objectives; places a high priority on the development of others and continuous learning; develops self and others through coaching, constructive feedback, exposure and stretching assignments; identifies successors and ensures they are ready for key roles; is a good judge of talent and organisational fit; constantly works to attract top diverse talent as well as being an advocate for the company.
  
  

This is what you should have.

What do we have, you ask? Well. . . you can check our amazing perks & benefits right here !

So. . . Are you in?

Equal opportunities

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.

We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.

Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to accommodations@blip. pt.

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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