Benefits Manager - UK Government
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 (eg 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.