Benefit Manager

I am looking to hire a Benefit Manager for one of my public sector client:

PLEASE SEE THE BELOW JOB SPECIFICATION:

Programme or Project Management Qualification such as MSP, APM or PRINCE 2

Accounting qualification, CCAB or equivalent

RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE

- Actively working with project teams and stakeholders to source information and data, with a view to analysing and developing it into strategic narrative, metrics, costs, estimates and quantified benefits.
- Developing a benefits management strategy which clearly defines the approach to realizing benefits and the framework within which benefits realization will be achieved and aligned to the department's strategic outcomes
- Developing benefit profiles to define each benefit (and dis-benefit) and provide a detailed understanding of what will be involved and how each benefit will be realized.
- Developing benefit maps showing the relationship between project outputs, capabilities, outcomes, benefits and corporate objectives in order to display the cause and effect relationships between the elements and the impact of failing to deliver specific elements on benefit realization.
- Producing benefit realization plans (detailing when each benefit or dis-benefit will be realized) so that realization of benefits can be tracked across the programme and to review controls set in advance.
- Tracking and measuring benefits in line with and by executing benefits realization plans across the lifetime of the business cases and align these with annual planning rounds. Developing appropriate metrics, KPIs, data sources and monitoring dashboards whilst utilizing appropriate tools and techniques.
- Individually writing robust and credible business cases using the Green Book five case model.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY

- The post holder will work across the range of projects which form the Change Programme, producing benefit realization plans and monitoring and measuring the realization of benefits across multiple work streams.
- The successful candidate must have the ability to draft strategic narrative, develop metrics, analyse data, estimate/cost change requirements and identify/quantify benefits whilst communicating the complex analytical information in a clear and concise way according to the needs of the audience-up to Board level.
- The post holder will also write business cases for new projects.
- The post holder must be a self starter, highly focused on delivery, able to work alone as well as with stakeholders;and must have exceptionally good excel skills to create meaningful spreadsheets and graphs for presentation purposes..