Senior Business Analyst

Sparta Global are hiring a Senior Business Analyst to support a major management information and data transformation function within a complex public sector environment.

The role will focus on leading discovery activity for new programmes of work, helping teams understand their MI, reporting and data requirements, and turning those requirements into clear delivery plans. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, analytical teams, technical colleagues and suppliers to ensure requirements are properly scoped, aligned to business outcomes and progressed through to delivery acceptance.

The role also requires candidates with prior experience of supplier management, contract performance reporting and supplier onboarding/offboarding.

This is a 6-Month Fixed Term Contract, requiring 2-3 days per month on-site in either Manchester or Liverpool - whichever is easiest for you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery activity for small to medium-sized projects, while supporting larger and more complex programmes as part of a wider team.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business problems, user needs, MI requirements, reporting requirements and delivery options.
• Elicit, analyse and validate business requirements, ensuring they are clearly documented and aligned to strategic objectives.
• Define the problem to be solved and ensure recommendations support business outcomes and user needs.
• Create delivery plans for MI and data-related projects, including scope, resource requirements, costs, risks and key delivery activities.
• Oversee requirement and delivery scoping activities, ensuring outputs are clear, consistent and of a high standard.
• Track and report progress across discovery and delivery activity.
• Produce periodic performance measures, updates and reports for stakeholders.
• Support the management of supplier contracts, including contract performance reporting, supplier metrics, supplier review, selection, onboarding and offboarding.

Essential Experience:

• Experience leading discovery phases for projects, programmes or transformation initiatives.
• Strong business analysis skills, including requirements elicitation, analysis, validation and documentation.
• Experience working with MI, reporting, data, analytics or performance information requirements.
• Ability to turn unclear business problems into structured requirements, delivery options and actionable plans.
• Experience creating delivery plans, including scope, risks, costs, resourcing and delivery activities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to challenge, negotiate and build consensus across different stakeholder groups.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for different audiences.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous or changing environments.
• Experience producing progress updates, performance reporting or management information for stakeholders.
• Experience working on technology-based delivery projects.
• Experience supporting supplier management, contract performance reporting or supplier onboarding/offboarding.