Portfolio Benefits & Investments Lead

Job Description Job Title: Portfolio Benefits & Investments Lead Working Pattern: 37 Hours Days Working location: Derby Raynesway An exciting opportunity for a Portfolio Benefits & Investments Lead role has arisen within Rolls Royce Nuclear (Submarines). This is a unique opportunity to operate across all aspects of the Submarines business and work with the Submarines Executive and Senior Leadership in the Portfolio Council and Operating Committee. As part of the Portfolio Office Transformation team, the Portfolio Benefits & Investments Lead is accountable to the Portfolio Benefits & Investments manager. The Benefits & Investments Lead will be responsible for overseeing and validating business case generation to support portfolio council decision making. This a key role for ensuring best outcomes for the portfolio are understood relative to change initiatives as part of ongoing transformation, and to ensure benefits are identified, monitored, and realised over the current contract duration. The role will lead on the creation and maintenance of the Portfolio Benefits Realisation Plan, Unity Benefits Framework and promote best practice, working closely with the contract & performance, cost management, finance, business management, project management and risk management disciplines both within and outside of the Portfolio Office. Why Rolls-Royce? Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey. We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference. What we offer We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week. The role will involve occasional travel to visit the customer and other sites. What you will be doing Lead on the development of robust investment business cases for Portfolio decision making by working with programme and functional teams to develop robust cost estimates and benefits. Work with Data Analytics team to develop scenarios related to proposed investments to model capability and delivery output impact. Act as the point of contact for the development of new investment cases in the 'warehouse' and liaise with MoD colleagues to validate and transition to 'Jetty' scope. Lead on the development and maintenance of portfolio benefits bank & benefits realisation plan, maintaining line-of-sight of planned benefits identified from launched change initiatives. Lead on production and maintenance of the Portfolio Benefits Framework. Work with the cost and performance teams to monitor inputs from each DBU, Programme and Functional area to the portfolio benefits bank thereby maintaining a current and forecast account of portfolio benefits. Work with Contract and Performance Management team to input into portfolio reports, responsible for providing narrative on benefits part of the Portfolio performance report. Work with Portfolio Baseline Controller to 'recover' benefits from programme teams through target setting and/or recovery of savings. Deputise for Benefits & Investments Manager as required. Who we’re looking for: At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. Ideally Degree Qualified in relevant discipline or be able to demonstrate the equivalent through sound experience and delivery. Excellent use of MS Excel and be able to demonstrate recent day to day use to a high level of competence. Experienced in forecasting long term cost of business and or products/services. Experienced in working on their own with limited supervision and taking responsibility for the delivery of own work and inputs of others. Have a high degree of business acumen. Professional and be able to communicate with authority and effectively at all levels within the Company and externally. Perseverance in adversity, coping with ambiguity and a willingness to drive through continuous improvement for self and others. We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country. NGS 9-10 Closing date: 26th March 2025 Job Category Project Management Posting Date 19 Mar 2025; 00:03 Posting End Date 25 Mar 2025 Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet vital power needs.