Benefits Manager

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Job Description

Base salary: £40750 pa to c.£50950 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Benefits Manager you will lead projects which seeks to identify, develop, and baseline the benefits of the HS2 scheme, ensuring that commitments are embedded throughout the whole of the project lifecycle. The role will also Implement processes that improve HS2 Ltd Benefits Management capability; and providing advice to the Department for Transport and Other Government Departments to support decisions on the HS2 scheme.

About the role:

• You will lead the Benefits realisation activities related to the HS2 scheme, ensuring that HS2 Ltd and supporting organisations understand their role in delivering the strategic goals of the HS2 scheme and they have the information to monitor progress against agreed goals. This will include attending relevant meetings with leadership and delivery teams.
• Lead the relationship, on behalf of the Benefits, Analysis & NPR Sponsorship, with colleagues within HS2 Ltd to embed the approach for assessing and monitoring the realisation of the benefits, including identification of new benefits and measures, distilling this into clear project plans, and supporting the management of a team to deliver against agreed milestones.
• Proactively build, maintain, and lead working relationships with colleagues across HS2 Ltd, providing advice on the development of benefits related capability and processes; and agreeing requirements to ensure decision making is informed by high quality information.
• Communicate the progress of HS2 Ltd and supporting organisations against the delivery of agreed benefits, ensuring that communication styles are adapted to suit the audience, and providing appropriate challenge to stakeholders when action is required to improve performance.
• Proactively seek opportunities for evidence to support investment decisions, by drawing conclusions on outputs from HS2 Ltd delivery teams and supply chain and giving well-judged advice on a range of high-profile investment decisions even where the evidence may be incomplete or ambiguous.
• Opportunity to manage a benefits analyst, including conducting performance appraisals, people management, coaching and development of their direct report.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About you:

Skills:

• Ability to lead the relationships with stakeholders to develop work programmes from high level requirements and effectively manage the delivery of a quarterly reports in time and to a high standard.
• Ability to reflect the wider strategic priorities of the organisations, and the views, perspectives, and diverse needs of HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport in to work programmes and activities to achieve progress on shared objectives.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data from various sources, identifying and securing appropriate stakeholder inputs, to provide analytical advice to support policy decisions, ensuring that risks and implications are identified.
• Ability to present complex information in a clear, concise way so that it is easily understood by stakeholders and to produce effective presentation, written and briefing material that facilitates decision making and actions, adapting their communication style to suit the audience.
• Ability to lead small teams to deliver projects on time, to the required quality and in line with benefits management best practice, ensuring decision making, planning and risk considers the impact on benefits realisation throughout the project lifecycle.

Knowledge:

• Degree level qualification or the equivalent qualification and experience in business administration, management consulting or programme delivery.
• Understanding of matrix organisations and programme delivery.
• Knowledge of relevant interfaces for benefits realisation in projects and programmes.
• Knowledge of best practice in benefits realisation.

Type of experience:

• Experience of developing and implementing benefits management frameworks and/or capability in a complex environment, notably a government department, partner body or commercial/consultancy environment.
• Experience of building and managing positive working relationships with stakeholders, communicating complex evidence with clarity and authority to influence decisions and promote the value of benefits management.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team, and quality-assuring benefit assessments conducted by peers, or developing quality-assurance plans for their own workstreams.
• Experience of managing a team to deliver high quality benefits assessments and quarterly reporting.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.