Benefits Lead

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists 10-days paid leave

Be Kind Day volunteering

Wellbeing and benefits programme

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Benefits Lead to oversee the benefits realisation across major programmes, defining and tracking measurable outcomes. You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders and programme teams to shape investment priorities and deliver value within a leading defence and engineering organisation.

The role offers hybrid working with 2 office days, 35 hours per week, and the chance to develop expertise in value management and business transformation while influencing strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Benefits realisation

Business case development

Benefits frameworks

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Forecasting

Education

APM qualification

APM/Lean qualifications

Job description

Job Title: Benefits Lead

Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76249

Shape the value behind transformation and deliver lasting impact

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as Benefits Lead at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As 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.

• 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.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Benefits Lead

• 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 for the Benefits Lead

Desirable

• APM Value and Benefits Management qualification, or equivalent
• Management Successful Programmes, APM or Lean qualifications
• Professional development relating to benefits management, governance or portfolio management.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 08/10/2026

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