Senior Benefits Manager

The Product and Platforms Sub-directorate plays a critical role in delivering digital products, services and platforms that support NHS England's priorities and enable high-quality care across the health and care system. A central portfolio operations team has been established to drive the delivery of a major transformation programme called Transforming People, Patient and Staff-facing Services (TPPSS) ensuring the co-ordinated delivery of value across our delivery themes.

The team works closely with colleagues from across all areas to coordinate value streams, manage dependencies, and ensure strategy translates into delivered value across the portfolio. The team operates in a fast-paced and evolving environment, requiring strong organisational skills, the ability to manage competing priorities and a proactive approach to problem solving.

We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Senior Benefits Manager to join Product and Platforms central portfolio team to proactively identify, quantify and track the realisation of benefits that justify investment in our major transformation programmes. They will provide visible and effective leadership for benefits management, working collaboratively with our Product Managers and delivery teams to deliver the benefits and outcomes in our business cases, and evidencing through effective research with frontline organisations, patients and the public.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who wants to transform NHS services and demonstrate the value being delivered by these changes. If you have previous benefits management or health economist experience, particularly those with experience of transformational delivery. Excellent communication skills to build strong networks both internally and externally then this could be the role for you!

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for external candidates.

Please refer to the attached job description, person specification and assignment brief for further details about the role.

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

• Recognised delivery framework qualification at practitioner level e.g. PRINCE2, Agile, ITIL or equivalent experience.

• Highly developed knowledge, ideally within a digital environment, of project and programme or benefit management frameworks and practices, such as; risk management, quality & assurance management, planning, benefits realisation, change control and governance models.

• An expert at identifying and quantifying benefits. Experience in leading the creation of benefits dependency maps, baselining current performance and preparing accurate benefits forecasts often within complex change programmes.
• Able to integrate benefit management principals and techniques into other methodologies including change management or agile approaches to project and programme management.

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