About the Role
Seeking an experienced Business Solutions / Automation Consultant for a short-term freelance engagement with Spark. This hands-on role involves leading live system improvement or automation projects, building capability within the team, and refining an existing operating model through practical application.
Responsibilities
- Lead a live system improvement or automation project.
- Work closely with the Business Solutions team.
- Apply existing project phases and documentation templates in a live project environment.
- Frame and validate the business problem before selecting a solution.
- Lead discovery, process mapping, and requirements definition using a defined structure.
- Identify the smallest solution capable of delivering measurable business value.
- Refine a lean BRD, delivery plan, timeline, RAID log, and value measures in practice.
- Manage stakeholders, decisions, dependencies, testing, and adoption in real time.
- Use Airtable for project tracking, planning, and benefit visibility.
- Identify opportunities for automation or AI to improve speed, quality, or scalability.
- Deliver a solution from discovery through to delivery and value review.
- Act as a working partner to the team, refining templates, phases, and ways of working based on live lessons learned.
- Leave behind improved, simplified, and battle-tested methods.
- Strengthen the team’s business analysis skills.
- Have the team shadow you to understand how theory connects into practice.
Requirements
- Strong business analysis and project delivery experience.
- Track record of delivering operational improvement, workflow automation, or internal transformation projects.
- Experience working in a lean, agile environment.
- Practical knowledge of Airtable or similar low-code workflow platforms.
- Confidence using AI tools to support discovery, analysis, documentation, solution design, and testing.
- Strong process-mapping, requirements, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to balance rapid delivery with appropriate data, security, and compliance controls.
- Coaching mindset and ability to explain the 'why' behind actions.
- Strong focus on adoption and measurable business outcomes.
- Experience improving or evolving ways of working through real project execution.
- Experience in a creative production agency, marketing operations, or project-based business is valuable.
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Project Delivery
- Automation
- Lean
- Agile
- Airtable
- Low-code platforms
- AI tools
- Process Mapping
- Requirements Definition
- Stakeholder Management
- Coaching
- Adoption
- Business Outcomes
Location
- London
Work Type
- Part-time
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
- Experienced
About the Company
- Spark
