Portfolio Lead

The Portfolio Lead is accountable for delivery performance across a sub-domain of 4-6 pods (Engineering, Quality, Product), leading the flow of value from idea to production. They combine hands-on delivery leadership with AI-augmented ways of working and data-driven decision-making, adapting approaches to each pod's context rather than prescribing a single framework. They partner with Engineering and Product leadership to reduce waste, improve throughput and help pods achieve Autonomy, Accountability and Agreement to value outcomes.

• Own pod delivery performance across a sub-domain of 4-6 pods; lead and communicate delivery health, risks and performance to leadership, and ensure pods operate as self-organising units delivering value outcomes.
• Support pod leads with coaching, facilitation and conflict resolution; facilitate cross-pod communication, knowledge sharing, and agreement on priorities and dependencies.
• Apply root cause analysis, systems thinking and structured techniques to resolve blockers; act as escalation point for cross-pod blockers and systemic impediments; identify process or organisational patterns causing deeper issues.
• Champion AI agent adoption across pods (coding agents, test generation, story creation, board health, deployment automation), identify ways AI can reduce toil and improve decision-making, and track and demonstrate the impact of AI on delivery performance.
• Monitor and improve delivery flow (lead time, cycle time, WIP, throughput) using Kanban and lean principles; ensure WIP limits are respected; surface ageing items through Board Walks; identify bottlenecks and sources of delay; support work breakdown into value-driven increments.
• Support and evolve the agile operating model for a pod-based environment; adapt delivery approaches to each pod's needs; promote outcome-driven delivery and guide teams to autonomy and accountability.
• Define and maintain delivery metrics (cycle time, flow efficiency, lead time, PDLC compression, dependency reduction, rework rate, team satisfaction, AI effectiveness) and build dashboards (cumulative flow, throughput, WIP ageing) for leadership visibility
• Analyse performance data to identify trends and inform coaching.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership at sub-domain level
• Represent delivery health in leadership forums
• Build trusted relationships for fast decision-making
• Communicate performance to technical and non-technical audiences
• Understand commercial context and connect delivery decisions to revenue, cost and customer impact.
• Forecast capacity across pods based on team composition and demand
• Identify resourcing gaps

• 7+ years in delivery/agile roles, with at least 3 years operating across multiple teams simultaneously in a technology environment.
• Expert in flow-based delivery approaches (Kanban, lean, continuous delivery) — not limited to Scrum.
• Experience enabling multiple teams/pods simultaneously at scale.
• Strong understanding of AI tooling and its application to software delivery (coding assistants, automation, intelligent analytics).
• Experienced in capacity planning, demand forecasting and resource optimisation across multiple teams.
• Ability to use data to solve complex problems and to interpret and communicate complex data sets clearly.
• Previous experience of organisational transformation and change management.
• Good knowledge of Objectives and Key Results (OKR) strategy.
• Demonstrate the Maker Dimensions: AI fluency, agency and accountability, systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, improving performance, cross-functional versatility, product sense, and building capability.
• Versatile, curious, and able to operate with autonomy in a high-trust environment.

• Experience in a regulated industry (gaming, fintech, or similar).

• Annual salary from €99,700

• A regular bonus and great pension.
• €136 Per month food vouchers.
• 25 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
• Extra paid leave, including wellbeing, development and life-event days.
• Life assurance and Income Protection.
• Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
• A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme.
• Special offers / reductions: pharmacy, Magenta, Erste Bank.

Entain is a leading, global sports betting and gaming company and a FTSE company with iconic brands including Ladbrokes, Coral, BetMGM, Eurobet and bwin.