Benefits Lead
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Benefits Lead, playing a pivotal role in ensuring major programmes deliver measurable value and meaningful business outcomes by establishing and leading the benefits realisation framework.
// Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain programme benefits management and realisation frameworks.
- Track, measure, and report programme benefits, outcomes, and value delivery.
- Facilitate benefits workshops, reviews, and stakeholder engagement.
- Support governance, assurance, and investment decision-making.
- Identify risks to benefit delivery and recommend actions to maximise value.
- Requires Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Benefits Lead
Shape the value behind transformation and deliver lasting impact. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Benefits Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring major programmes deliver measurable value and meaningful business outcomes.
Working across complex transformation and change initiatives, you'll establish and lead the benefits realisation framework, ensuring programme benefits are clearly defined, tracked, measured, and ultimately achieved. Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, challenge thinking, and help shape investment priorities across a leading engineering and defence organisation. You'll collaborate with senior stakeholders, programme teams, and business leaders, helping drive positive change while developing your own expertise in programme delivery, value management, and business transformation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establishing and maintaining programme benefits management and realisation frameworks.
- Tracking, measuring, and reporting programme benefits, outcomes, and value delivery.
- Facilitating benefits workshops, reviews, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Supporting governance, assurance, and investment decision-making processes.
- Identifying risks to benefit delivery and recommending actions to maximise programme value.
About the Role:
This role is full-time, 35 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite. Locations include Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol.
Essential Experience:
- Experience managing benefits realisation within complex programmes or projects.
- Strong understanding of business case development, value management, and benefits frameworks.
- Experience developing and maintaining benefits management and realisation plans.
- Strong analytical skills, including data analysis, forecasting, modelling, and performance reporting.
- Proven ability to engage, influence, and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Desirable qualifications include APM Value and Benefits Management qualification, or equivalent; Management Successful Programmes, APM or Lean qualifications; or professional development relating to benefits management, governance, or portfolio management.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What we offer:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading options
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme.