Benefit Manager

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Our Benefits Managers play a crucial role in driving forward the ground-breaking change needed to achieve the future shape of HMRC and Tax administration on behalf of every citizen in the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to join our diverse community as we continue to earn our place as one of the best project delivery departments across Government.

The role of Benefits Manager is to proactively identify, quantify, and track the realisation of benefits used to justify investment in the programme / project. The Benefits Manager ensures that a fit for purpose approach to benefits measurement and realisation is used to provide assurance that the benefits identified can be achieved.

You will be required to:

• Lead benefits management and work with key stakeholders 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 within the program and across the multi-functional teams.
• Develop Benefits Realisation Plans for all change activity and oversee change control.
• Identify risks to benefits realisation. Develop and propose mitigations.
• Work with stakeholders and wider benefits management community to ensure all benefits are identified, mapped, understood, owned and maximised.
• Co-ordinate workshops to test dependencies and disbenefits aligning with stakeholders to secure agreement and approval.
• Brief key stakeholders / boards ahead of benefits reviews. Engage with the organisations Portfolio Office to enhance and improve benefits management best practice.
• Work with Stakeholders to ensure benefits are identified, quantified, owned and maximised, in line with the HMRC framework.
• Have experience of interrogating data, challenging assumptions and making evidence-based decisions.
• Have strong interpersonal skills and proven stakeholder management with the ability to support, challenge and guide stakeholders to achieve quality outcomes.

Essential Criteria

· Experience of identifying, tracking and realising project benefits on a range of project types.

· Able to solve complex issues on departmental ways of working for Benefits Management.

· Experience of working in high-level complexity projects or programmes.

Desirable Criteria

· APMG Managing Benefits Foundation or actively working towards.

Transitional Sites Information

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, its important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window)

These sites are:

• Waterview Park, Washington - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Centenary Court, Bradford - moving to 7 and 8 Wellington Place, Leeds
• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRCs Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.