Delivery Lead

Sparta Global are hiring 4 Delivery Leads to take ownership of a delivery team or workstream, ensuring resources, stakeholders and delivery activity are effectively coordinated to achieve agreed outcomes.

Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates.

This will be a 12 Month FTC, before a potential conversion to a permanent role, and will require 2 days per week on-site in Birmingham.

The role will provide hands-on delivery leadership across technology, data or transformation initiatives, maintaining strong governance, managing delivery risks and ensuring quality standards are met throughout the lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of a team, project workstream or defined area of a wider transformation programme.
• Coordinate delivery plans, resources, priorities and dependencies to ensure agreed milestones and outcomes are achieved.
• Provide clear leadership and direction to cross-functional delivery teams.
• Build strong relationships with clients, senior stakeholders and internal teams.
• Monitor delivery progress, identifying risks, issues and dependencies and driving appropriate actions through to resolution.
• Establish and maintain effective governance, reporting and delivery controls.
• Produce clear and accurate updates on delivery status, milestones, risks and priorities.
• Ensure appropriate quality assurance processes are followed and that outputs meet agreed standards.
• Support effective resource planning, balancing delivery priorities and team capacity.
• Challenge blockers and underperformance where required to maintain delivery momentum.
• Promote continuous improvement across delivery processes, ways of working and team performance.
• Ensure delivery remains aligned to wider business, technology or transformation objectives.

Experience & Skills

• Experience delivering technology, data or business transformation initiatives.
• Strong client-facing leadership and stakeholder management experience.
• Proven delivery management capability across complex or fast-moving environments.
• Experience leading and coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Strong governance, reporting and delivery control experience.
• Good risk, issue and dependency management skills.
• Experience maintaining and improving quality standards across delivery.
• Strong communication, organisation and problem-solving skills. xwzovoh
• The ability to provide clear leadership while managing competing priorities and delivery pressures.