Benefits Manager

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.