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.

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.
• The ability to provide clear leadership while managing competing priorities and delivery pressures.