Senior Planning Lead

Senior Planning Lead

Location: Leeds or Dublin (hybrid)

Contract type: permanent

The Role

As a Senior Planning Lead you will be accountable for shaping embedding and continuously evolving planning and delivery frameworks across multiple streams. You will play a critical leadership role in aligning strategy to execution improving predictability and enabling high-performing teams at scale.

You will work closely with senior team members across Product Engineering Architecture and Delivery to drive consistent planning practices resolve systemic delivery challenges and uplift organisational planning maturity. This role requires strong judgement influence and the ability to lead through complexity.

What Youll Be Doing

• Planning: Own and evolve structured planning approaches that align strategy to execution and improve collaboration prioritisation and predictability across streams.
• Coordination: Lead planning and coordination for complex cross-functional initiatives managing dependencies risks and delivery decisions.
• Problem-Solving & Issue Resolution: Proactively identify systemic delivery challenges resolve high-impact issues and restore momentum across teams.
• Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement across planning and execution embedding standard processes that improve flow efficiency and outcomes at scale.
• Collaborator Communication: Partner with senior technical and non-technical collaborators to enable alignment transparency and informed decision-making.
• Facilitate Agile Practices: Champion and evolve Agile and hybrid delivery practices supporting teams and leaders to operate effectively in changing environments.
• Data & Insights: Define and use meaningful delivery metrics and insights to inform prioritisation governance and continuous improvement.

What Were Looking For

• Extensive experience in planning delivery leadership or operational excellence within sophisticated technology-driven environments
• Deep understanding of Agile Lean and continuous improvement principles with the ability to apply them pragmatically
• Proven ability to lead planning across multiple teams streams or portfolios
• Strong stakeholder management skills including experience engaging senior leaders and executives
• Excellent systems thinking problem-solving and decision-making capability
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving clarity where none exists
• A track record of improving delivery outcomes through better planning alignment and execution

Whats in it for you

We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Hybrid working
• /1000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing fund (/250 a year)
• Recognition programs
• Gym membership discounts vouchers and much more!

Equal opportunities

At Flutter 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 dont have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.