Benefits Manager

Join us as a G7 Benefits Manager for our client the Home Office. Please note: This role requires active SC Clearance. Please only apply if you hold this.

At Peregrine, we’re always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.

How Specialist Talent Works: At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. As a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits, you will be deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries.

The Role: As Senior Benefits Manager, you will be assigned to complex projects, or those carrying a significant degree of reputational risk to implement the benefits management strategy, develop and embed a robust and consistent benefits tracking and realisation process. You will identify and support key stakeholders and Benefits Owners to maintain an organisational view of benefits realisation and champion best practice. You will ensure Benefits are mapped and aligned, validated and approved. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on delivering one of the Governments highest priorities.

Responsibilities: Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Provide visible and effective leadership, lead benefits management and work with the project manager 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.
• Support the project/programme manager in preparing and updating the benefits elements of the business case working with specialists as required.
• Oversee the project Benefits Realisation Plan including change control.
• Identify risks to benefits realisation. Develop and propose mitigations.
• Establish the mechanism for the tracking and reporting of benefits through the project lifecycle and into realisation.
• Co-ordinate workshops, maps benefit and ensures alignment. Circulates for agreement and approval.
• Works with a range of stakeholders to validate and test dependencies.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure benefits are identified, understood, owned and maximised.
• Briefs key stakeholders ahead of benefits reviews.
• Engages with organisations portfolio office / HOAI – Home Office Analysis and Insight to assess consistency and test double counting.

Skills & Experience: You’ll have a demonstrable passion for delivery with the following skills or proven experience in:

• Have significant experience of working on benefits management in large scale, complex projects and/or programmes.
• Have strong experience of working with external and internal stakeholders to develop, administer and design new or modify existing benefits in projects and/or programmes.
• Developed and implemented a Benefits Management Strategy across a project or programme.
• Excellent presentation skills, both in terms of preparing high-impact material (statistical, PowerPoint etc), in a way that is easy to understand and accessible.
• Experience in managing people, projects, processes and key stakeholders to deliver high quality and timely.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to form well thought out conclusions and recommendations.
• Methodical approach to maintaining essential programme and project information to provide auditable information in a controlled change environment.

About us: At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want. We have a range of benefits you will receive alongside your salary.

Our culture: At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and we’re always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society – whether it’s finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility.

Our commitment to diversity: At Peregrine, we’re proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit for our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse.