Business Case and Benefits Manager

Job title: Business Case and Benefits Manager

Company: University of Manchester


Job description: The University of Manchester are seeking to appoint a dynamic and experienced Business Case & Benefits Manager to join their Future Foundations Programme Team.The Business Case & Benefits Realisation Manager will be responsible for maintaining the Future Foundations Programme’s Business Case as a living, evolving document, ensuring it accurately reflects developments across the programme lifecycle. This is role is about owning the business case and holding the programme accountable for delivering tangible, strategic outcomes.This critical role is responsible for ensuring the University achieves the intended benefits from its ERP investment. You will drive the planning, tracking, and realisation of value, working closely with programme leadership, stakeholders, and suppliers. Collaborating across key functions including Finance, Strategy, Change, and Operations. You will help keep the programme aligned with its strategic goals, adapt to evolving needs, and deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes in a complex environment.Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Strong understanding of benefits management methodologies, covering the full lifecycle from identification through to realisation. Able to apply best practice approaches to maximise value and ensure benefits are clearly aligned to strategic goals.
• Experienced in developing complex business cases for large transformation or ERP programmes, focusing on financial modelling, risk analysis, and benefits tracking.
• Experience of working in a large-scale, multi-stakeholder environment, ideally within higher education, public sector, or complex private organisations.
• Excellent organisational skills, able to prioritise a variety of work activities in a busy environment and meet strict deadlines.
• The ability to work confidently and assertively with a range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and programme and project managers. Using coaching, negotiating, communication and influencing skills to achieve successful outcomes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to executive stakeholders and write compelling documents for decision-making.
• Expertise in problem-solving and making recommendations for decision-makers, engaging with relevant stakeholders, and using judgement when information is incomplete.

As an ideal candidate you will have:

• Experience of working in a PMO Office, supporting best practice PMO functions and services.
• Experience in project management methodologies and tailoring these to be appropriate to the organisation and portfolio.
• Experience of applying policies and procedures relating to Equality and Diversity, Information Governance and Data Protection.

As one of the leading Universities our employees enjoy exclusive access to excellent benefits and schemes including:

• Generous annual leave allowance, including Christmas/New Year closure
• Pension scheme membership to provide benefits for you and your family
• Well-being programme with counselling, fitness and leading sports facilities
• Learning and development opportunities
• Season ticket loans for public transport
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Staff recognition schemes
• Staff discounts on a range of products and services including travel and high street savings

The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities and highly respected across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and research innovation and discovery.With 25 Nobel Prize winners among our current and former staff and students, we have a history of world firsts, with our impact ranging from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene.Our purpose is to advance education, knowledge and wisdom for the good of society, putting our three core goals of research and discovery, teaching and learning, and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do.As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments will be made on merit.We reserve to right to close the advert early in the instance that we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.Any CV’s submitted by recruitment agencies will be treated as a gift.Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:Name: Jen Pass, Talent Acquisition Business PartnerEmail:General enquiries:Email:Technical support:This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date. We reserve to right to close the advert early in the instance that we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.

Expected salary:

Location: Manchester

Job date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:07:45 GMT

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