Value Manager; Consultant

Job Title: Benefits and Value Manager (Consultant)

Location: Remote, with occasional national travel to Birmingham and London

Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 9 months (potential to extend)

Start date: ASAP

Salary: Up to £70,000, depending on experience

Help deliver lasting value from nationally important investment

At Pace, our consultants care about the impact their work has on our customers and the communities they serve. We bring together talented people who think differently, take ownership and work collaboratively to solve complex challenges.

We are looking for an experienced Benefits and Value Manager to join our National Infrastructure team and support the delivery of our National Highways service.

This is an opportunity to play a central role in helping our customer identify, plan, deliver and review the benefits arising from major investment projects. You will provide the insight, structure and constructive challenge needed to make benefits measurable, achievable and embedded in effective governance and decision-making.

The role can be performed remotely, with occasional national travel to Birmingham and London for customer meetings, workshops and team activities.

As a Benefits and Value Manager, you will lead the application of benefits and value-management best practice across customer projects.

You will work closely with project sponsors, project managers, subject-matter specialists and wider customer stakeholders to identify and quantify expected benefits, develop robust Benefits Realisation Plans, monitor delivery and support meaningful post-implementation review.

You will champion a consistent, high-quality approach throughout the full benefits lifecycle:
Identify | Plan | Deliver | Review

This is a highly collaborative and customer-facing role. You will facilitate workshops, analyse complex information, test assumptions and dependencies, and provide clear advice that supports business cases, governance and investment decisions.

• Providing visible and effective benefits and value-management support to customer sponsors and project managers.
• Helping project teams develop and deliver the benefits and outcomes set out in their business cases.
• Championing recognised benefits-management standards, tools and processes.
• Ensuring compliance with the customer’s internal processes, standards, roles and responsibilities.
• Promoting a consistent approach and high-quality outputs across every stage of the benefits lifecycle.

• Researching the strategic drivers that influence projects and using them to provide context for benefits identification.
• Planning and facilitating workshops that enable stakeholders to identify, explore and agree expected benefits.
• Developing benefits maps and recording outputs consistently using appropriate tools and templates.
• Coordinating the review, agreement and approval of benefits outputs.
• Applying professional judgement and constructive challenge to ensure assumptions are robust.
• Working with a range of stakeholders to identify, test and validate dependencies.

• Establishing and maintaining project Benefits Realisation Plans.
• Defining clear measures, ownership, timescales, dependencies and reporting arrangements.
• Identifying risks to benefits realisation and recommending proportionate responses.
• Providing assurance that planned benefits are robust, measurable and deliverable.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of the benefits elements of project business cases.

• Tracking and reporting benefits throughout the project lifecycle.
• Analysing progress against agreed plans, measures and outcomes.
• Providing relevant, accurate and timely information about benefits delivery.
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