Benefits Realisation Manager
The closing date is 01 April 2026
Are you looking for a new and unique challenge? At ESNEFT, we are seeking someone with a business, governance, finance, project management or related background to become our Benefits Realisation Manager. As a Benefits Realisation Manager, you will lead on assisting the Trust in enabling the delivery and tracking of financial and non-financial benefits associated with key strategic programmes and initiatives. You will work closely with all key stakeholders across the Trust and the wider Integrated Care System, to support the identification, management, tracking, and delivery of all associated benefits. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of a robust Benefits Framework and all aspects of benefits realisation planning and reporting including: working with stakeholders to identify potential benefits related to key programmes, assisting in securing support and buy‑in to those benefits, challenging teams to maximise identification and realisation of benefits, and enabling delivery and organisational adoption of relevant systems to ensure realisation. In return, we will support your growth by providing access to learning and development opportunities to enhance your skills and stay updated with industry trends. You will also have access to all the Trust's benefits, including our award‑winning health and wellbeing service.
Main duties of the job
In this position, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that the benefits outlined in our key strategic projects and initiatives are realised and maximised. The post holder will ensure the identification of benefit owners and, where appropriate, oversee delivery of the key benefits, supporting our clinical, operational and corporate teams as necessary to ensure these benefits are realised, embedded and sustained.
You will be required to work closely with other colleagues across services including Business Informatics, Innovation, Digital, Estates, Finance, Transformation and QI, to develop robust benefits measurement systems and processes to monitor overall progress of key benefits, identifying and supporting performance improvement or adjustment to plans where required and reporting progress to relevant forums across the organisation and wider Integrated Care System.
You will be required to utilise relevant programme / project management methods and tools to provide assurance on progress and/or to escalates concerns, ensuring this is collated and presented through relevant governance forums as necessary.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across East Suffolk and North Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (prorated) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
* Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience at postgraduate level
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Further relevant training
Experience
* Proven experience of working in a management/leadership role
* Experience of managing, leading and motivating a team
* Leading service changes to improve performance
* Leading projects
* Responsible for a budget and budget setting
* Identifying and interpreting national policy and implementing required changes
* Business case development and annual planning, longer term planning
* Working in an NHS organisation
* Experience of working in operations or governance settings
* Experience of auditing accounts
Knowledge
* Financial procedures including budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
* Business planning /annual planning/long term planning
* In‑depth understanding of change management
* Able to use IT systems including Microsoft Office
* Good understanding of the current NHS agenda and healthcare policy
* Knowledge of service improvement /transformation and project management
* Risk management and governance
* NHS IT systems
* Understanding of basic medical terminology
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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