Benefits Manager
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Negotiable
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Benefits Manager role involves leading the development and delivery of a benefits management framework for a major government programme in a complex, multi-organisation environment. The position focuses on ensuring measurable value through benefit definition, ownership, tracking, and long-term realisation. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to refine programme benefits and implement effective tracking processes. Strong experience in benefits management within government or similar environments is essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and refinement of the programme’s benefits case from OBC through to FBC and into delivery
- Work across the department and ALBs to identify, validate and refine programme benefits
- Support ALB-level analysis to understand differences in benefit realisation across organisations
- Facilitate workshops to define, challenge and quantify monetisable and non-monetisable benefits
- Identify and establish clear benefit ownership outside of the core programme team
- Develop and maintain the Benefits Realisation Plan, benefits register and reporting dashboards
- Design and implement processes for tracking, measuring and reporting benefits
- Produce clear reporting and insights to support senior decision-making and governance
- Align benefits management with change management and evaluation activities
- Ensure benefits are embedded and sustained into Business as Usual (BAU)
- Continuously improve benefits management processes and frameworks across the programme
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in benefits management within large, complex transformation programmes
- Experience working within Defra, government, or similar multi-organisation environments (e.g. ALBs)
- Proven experience developing and maturing benefits cases across OBC to FBC stages
- Ability to define, quantify and track both financial and non-financial benefits
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across senior and operational audiences
- Experience facilitating workshops and driving alignment across multiple teams
- Strong analytical and reporting skills, with experience building dashboards and benefit tracking frameworks
- Experience linking benefits management with change and evaluation activity
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Location: Remote - UK based
Contract length: Initial 6 months
IR35: Outside IR35
Rate: DoE
SR2 is supporting a major government programme and is looking for an experienced Benefits Manager to lead the development and delivery of a robust benefits management framework across a complex, multi-organisation environment. This role will play a key part in ensuring the programme delivers measurable value, with a strong focus on benefit definition, ownership, tracking and long-term realisation across the department and its Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs).
Role
- Lead the development and refinement of the programme’s benefits case from OBC through to FBC and into delivery
- Work across the department and ALBs to identify, validate and refine programme benefits
- Support ALB-level analysis to understand differences in benefit realisation across organisations
- Facilitate workshops to define, challenge and quantify monetisable and non-monetisable benefits
- Identify and establish clear benefit ownership outside of the core programme team
- Develop and maintain the Benefits Realisation Plan, benefits register and reporting dashboards
- Design and implement processes for tracking, measuring and reporting benefits
- Produce clear reporting and insights to support senior decision-making and governance
- Align benefits management with change management and evaluation activities
- Ensure benefits are embedded and sustained into Business as Usual (BAU)
- Continuously improve benefits management processes and frameworks across the programme
Requirements
- Strong experience in benefits management within large, complex transformation programmes
- Experience working within Defra, government, or similar multi-organisation environments (e.g. ALBs)
- Proven experience developing and maturing benefits cases across OBC to FBC stages
- Ability to define, quantify and track both financial and non-financial benefits
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across senior and operational audiences
- Experience facilitating workshops and driving alignment across multiple teams
- Strong analytical and reporting skills, with experience building dashboards and benefit tracking frameworks
- Experience linking benefits management with change and evaluation activity
Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will be in touch with suitable candidates regarding next steps.