Job Description

You will also be required to develop strong working relationships with business change and continuous improvement professionals. For example, through development of the Benefits Management Special Interest Group and connection with other best practice groups, to help the ONS maintain a focus on benefit realization resulting from change activity.
You will have a strong background in benefits management, with the ability to adapt traditional methods and processes to both support and maintain levels of required scrutiny and assurance. They will also have the skills knowledge and experience necessary to provide assurance to senior leaders through the provision of quality information and professional advice and are able to lead a ‘best in class’ service.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible and effective leadership, lead benefits management and work with programmes to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes. Develop clear vision and standards and champion the use of best practice benefits management standards, tools and processes. Build strong networks both internally and externally
• Define and shape the benefits management strategy taking into account the wider organization methodology.
• Promote and advise on Benefits Realization Plans including change control. Identify risks to benefits realization. Develop and propose mitigations.
• Establish the mechanism for coordinated and consistent tracking and reporting of benefits through the project and programme lifecycles and into realization.
• Co-ordinate workshops, maps benefits and ensures alignment. Help to value benefits for business case through benefit modelling. Works with a range of stakeholders to validate and test dependencies.
• Advise project managers in preparing and updating the benefits elements of the Business Case working with specialists as required.
• Work with Stakeholders and wider benefits management community to ensure benefits are identified, understood, owned and maximized. Briefs key stakeholders ahead of benefits reviews. Engages with organizations portfolio office to enhance and improve benefits management best practice.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Significant benefits management experience to support projects and programmes. Identifying, valuing, planning, monitoring and realizing benefits; in line with best practice.
• Effective management of relationships with and influencing of senior stakeholders.
• Using quantitative analysis as the basis for providing quality information, professional advice and briefing on complex issues.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with a proven record of establishing, building and maintaining strong, collaborative and productive relationships across functional and organizational boundaries.
• A focus on delivery, working under pressure and responding quickly and decisively to changing circumstances and tight timescales.
• Organization of a complex workload, prioritizing and manage rapidly changing demands and priorities but essentially to model positive behaviors that reflect the corporate values and culture.
• Driving benefits management capability and action through the principles of continuous improvement and professional development.
• Experience in business case and options/portfolio analysis management to support corporate investment decisions for large complex projects/programmes
• Knowledge and experience of multiple delivery methodologies and experience of complex business case development and benefits management
• An understanding and practical implementation of HM Treasury ‘Green Book’ and HM Treasury Guide to Developing the Project Business Case (Better Business Cases for Better Outcomes) including the ‘5 Case Model’