Digital Benefits Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £55,690.00 i £62,682.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Reading, RG1 5AN |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9193-25-0973 |
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1. Leadership & Benefits Management: Provide strategic leadership for the benefits management function, ensuring that benefits are identified, tracked, and realised across the Trusts programmes and projects. Develop and maintain a benefits management framework that aligns with the Trusts strategic goals and ensures the delivery of quantifiable and qualitative outcomes. Lead a team of benefits analysts, including the direct line management of staff, ensuring performance management, development, and succession planning. Provide expert advice and guidance on benefits management processes and methodologies, ensuring the Trust follows best practices and achieves a high return on investment. Act as the senior point of contact for benefits management within the Trust, advising senior executives and stakeholders on the progress and realisation of benefits. Ensure that benefits realisation aligns with organisational goals, particularly in financial savings, patient outcomes, and operational efficiency. 2. Financial Responsibility & Budget Management: Lead on financial benefits tracking, ensuring all projects and programmes have robust financial baselines and trajectories for cost savings and return on investment (ROI). Monitor the financial performance of benefits realisation, identifying variances from expected financial outcomes and providing recommendations to rectify discrepancies. Work closely with the Finance Directorate to ensure that all financial benefits are aligned with the Trusts financial objectives and that reporting is consistent with financial governance. Ensure budget forecasting is conducted accurately for the benefits team, including managing resources to ensure the benefits team operates within allocated financial limits. Responsible for the benefits realisation budget, ensuring costs associated with benefits management are justified, monitored, and controlled effectively. 4. Communication & Relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with senior executives, clinical leads, project managers, and other key stakeholders across the Trust. Act as the primary point of contact for all matters related to benefits realisation, providing regular updates to senior management, boards, and governance bodies. Communicate complex benefits data to both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring transparency and understanding of key benefits indicators. Lead the development of communication strategies that ensure benefits tracking and realisation are understood across the organisation. Represent the Trust in external forums and networks, sharing best practices in benefits management and influencing national policy where relevant. 5. Planning & Organisation: Develop and implement benefits management plans for all major programmes and projects, ensuring that benefits are clearly defined, measurable, and achievable. Ensure that benefits realisation is embedded within the project lifecycle, from business case development through to project closure. Lead the creation of long-term benefits tracking mechanisms, ensuring sustainability of benefits beyond project delivery. Plan and organise regular benefits reviews, ensuring that all benefits data is up to date and accurately reflects the current status of projects. Manage dependencies between projects and ensure that the realisation of benefits across multiple projects is coordinated and aligned with Trust priorities. 6. Analytical & Judgement Skills: Analyse complex data sets to track benefits realisation, identifying trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement. Use advanced judgement to assess whether benefits are likely to be realised and make strategic decisions to ensure any risks to benefits realisation are mitigated. Conduct scenario analysis and sensitivity assessments to forecast benefits realisation and ensure realistic expectations are set. Use a data-driven approach to evaluate the success of benefits realisation, reporting on outcomes to senior leadership teams. 7. Policy, Service, Research & Development: Lead on the development of benefits management policies, ensuring they are aligned with Trust priorities and the latest best practices in benefits realisation. Regularly review and update benefits policies and procedures, ensuring they are reflective of the Trusts changing needs and objectives. Undertake research into benefits management best practices from both within the NHS and external organisations, ensuring continuous improvement of benefits processes within the Trust. Lead on complex audits and research activities to ensure benefits are being delivered efficiently, using evidence-based methods to improve outcomes. 8. Information Resources & Reporting: Develop and maintain benefits tracking systems, ensuring that accurate and up-to-date information is available for all key stakeholders. Ensure that benefits data is integrated into Trust-wide reporting systems, providing a clear line of sight for senior management on benefits progress. Oversee the production of benefits realisation reports for project boards, governance committees, and senior executives, ensuring accuracy and clarity. Use IT and data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI) to produce dashboards and reports that track benefits realisation in real-time. 9. Change Control & Benefits Tracking: Lead the benefits change control process, ensuring that any changes to scope, budget, or timescales are fully assessed and approved by appropriate stakeholders. Ensure that all projects have clear benefits tracking baselines, with measurable indicators for both financial and non-financial benefits. Ensure that benefits tracking mechanisms remain in place post-project delivery to ensure long-term sustainability of benefits realisation. 10. Technical Skills: Oversee the use of benefits management tools, ensuring that the team has the technical capabilities to effectively track and report on benefits. Lead on the integration of benefits tracking systems with other project management tools, ensuring seamless data sharing and analysis. Ensure the team has the appropriate technical skills to manage large-scale benefits tracking systems and produce detailed reports.