Strategic Benefits Manager

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe

Job Purpose/Overview

This role leads benefits management at a strategic level to ensure maximum realisation of portfolio benefits targets. A key focus is working across the transformation portfolio to influence senior leaders in the adoption of NERL’s benefits strategy to achieve benefits-led decision making

Other Duties Include

• Development of benefits strategies to ensure achievement of business transformation, performance KPIs and maximising value from investments
• Set and manage portfolio benefits targets, influencing to ensure action is taken to maximise benefit realisation whilst balancing business performance KPIs
• Monitor and report on the achievement of portfolio benefits to ensure there is a clear understanding of performance forecasts, risks and issues
• Manage the development of models and tools to measure, analyse, identify and advise on benefits insights to support decision making at Portfolio level
• Initiate benefit reviews to provide assurance that all portfolio change initiatives are aligned to the strategy, assessed for impact, and that benefit realisation plans are in place
• Define/manage policies, procedures, records and data for benefit management
• Lead the review and assessment of benefits management at portfolio level and implement plans to continue improvement to achieve maturity objectives
• Maintaining knowledge and skills to enable capability development for benefits management including tools, training, coaching and mentoring
• Lead a culture of high-performance teamwork; provide support to, and deputise for, the Head of Requirements & Benefits

Essential Experience

• Degree in a relevant Business/Management area or equivalent knowledge acquired through experience, and training/development
• Stakeholder management skills; able to tailor and communicate information appropriately for engaging and advising at Executive, Director and Senior levels
• Demonstrable experience in driving benefits realisation, ideally with a recognised certification in Portfolio or benefits management
• Highly experienced in the development of benefits management strategies, techniques, processes and tools
• A strategic thinker, attentive to accuracy and quality of work output
• Strong analytical skills; confident analysing information/data, extracting insights and drawing clear conclusions
• Experienced in development/implementation of processes, reports and products related to benefits realisation
• Self-managing, organised leader who is also comfortable working reactively and flexibly during fast-paced business cycles
• Adopts a growth mindset and can coach, mentor and advise junior to senior stakeholders.
• Ideally competent using Power BI

Additional Vacancy Information

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally - for more information on what NATS can offer you please visit - Why NATS?

We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. We also welcome discussions on flexible working arrangements. Find out more here

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry