Length of employment: Job Summary: The Business Improvement Team's primary focus is driving business improvement and optimising our services within wider DIO organisation. From ideation to cultural embedment, we work with the organisation ensuring that high quality Defence infrastructure and customer service is delivered quickly, efficiently, and effectively with limited impact to front line staff. The Benefits Managerplays a crucial role in embedding business optimisationacross the organisation, ensuring that efficiency improvements and benefits realisation are captured, measured, and aligned with the wider Optimisation Programme. In the current financial climate, it is imperative that benefits management supports the organisation in delivering best value for customers, operates within control totals, and meets Treasury efficiency savingswhile adhering to the Government's Benefits Framework. This role is positioned within the Efficiencies Core Teamwhile also supporting the wider Strategic Business Office within Business Improvement, ensuring that benefits are consistently captured across the organisation in a consistent and efficient manner. You will work closely with stakeholders & Business Improvement Partners within Business Improvementto drive best practices in benefits identification, tracking, reporting, and realisation. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. Job Description: Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to; Leadership & Governance Supporting the Efficiencies Business Improvement Partnerin embedding a robust benefits management frameworkacross the organisation. Ensuring that benefits realisation is a core component of business optimisation efforts as well as the wider Strategic Business Offices undertaking. Driving strong governancearound benefits tracking, ensuring processes are transparent, repeatable, and integrated into existing decision-making structures. Working collaboratively with stakeholders to ensure benefits are appropriately owned, measured, and reported. Ensuring compliance with mandatory requirements, including governance procedures and alignment with control totals and Treasury efficiency savings. Benefits Management & Realisation Developing, maintaining, and refining the DIO Benefits Management Framework, ensuring coherence with organisational priorities and the Treasury efficiency savings framework. Leading on the development of a Benefits Management Strategy, aligning benefits with the directorates strategic objectives and planning. Working closely with business improvement partnersand operational teams to identify, define, and measure key benefits, developing comprehensive benefits profiles. Delivering training and awareness sessionsto promote a benefits-focused mindset and ensure consistency in benefits management principles. Participating in investment appraisals where appropriate, ensuring that benefits forecasts in business cases align with organisational objectives. Leading and facilitating benefits mapping workshops where appropriate. Conducting scrutiny and assurance reviewson benefits management practices, ensuring compliance and effectiveness. Maintaining a consolidated benefits forecast, ensuring accuracy and minimising double counting. Providing direct support to the Strategic Business Office, ensuring benefits realisation contributes to the directorate's broader business initiatives. Benefits Tracking & Reporting Establishing a measurement, tracking, and reporting framework, ensuring benefits are consistently monitored against agreed targets and reported effectively to the Strategic Business Office. Identifying and manage consequences, including dis-benefits and opportunitiesfor maximising benefits realisation. Consolidating metrics and progress reports, providing senior leaders with clear insights into benefits realisation performance. Escalating significant benefits-related issues to the 1Steering Group*, ensuring swift resolution and alignment with strategic priorities. Leading on post-implementation reviews, ensuring that lessons learnedfrom benefits management are captured and shared for continuous improvement. Leading the Strategic Business Officein integrating benefits realisation insights into corporate performance reportingand long-term business planning. In addition, the following benefits are offered: 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years service Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with an opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer Highly competitive Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97% Enhanced parental leave Most sites have access to free car parking, sports & social clubs, gym, on site shops and subsidised canteens Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements. The post does not offer relocation expenses. External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period. Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed. Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts. Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/. The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments. MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey - We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights. Essential Criteria Proven experience in benefits management, business optimisation and programme delivery. Ability to lead benefits realisation processeswithin a complex organisational structure. Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills, with a focus on collaborative working. Desirable Criteria APMG Managing Benefits Practitioner or similar qualification. Experience in stakeholder engagement, particularly at senior levels, to drive alignment and ownership of benefits. Demonstrable expertise in data analysis, financial forecasting and benefits tracking. At the application stage you will be assessed against: Success Profile Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience Candidates will also be required to provide a statement of suitability (Word count: 500) When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected. At interview you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles: Behaviours: Communicating and Influencing Leadership Working Together Changing and Improving Delivering at Pace Further information: We aim to undertake the sift of applications WC 30th June following closure with Interviews WC 7th July. Interviews are likely to be conducted face to face at St Georges House, Whittington, WS14 9PY or Andover, SP11 8HJ (but may be subject to change). The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact:. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.