Job summary
The HM Land Registry (HMLR) strategy and business plan set out some of the most ambitious goals in the organisation’s history. To ensure these objectives are successfully delivered in a controlled manner, HMLR are managing a number of high-stakes multi-year programmes and portfolios covering a huge variety of work and reaching every part of the organisation.
As a Benefits Manager, you will play a key role in leading collaboration to map, profile, and realise benefits across projects, programmes, and other significant changes. Working with the support and guidance of Senior Benefits Managers on larger or more challenging initiatives, you will take ownership of less complex benefits activity, ensuring that benefit information is accurate, up-to-date, and clearly documented. You will support completion of artefacts which are used as critical evidence to support investment and prioritisation decisions, while helping Benefit Owners demonstrate the measurable impact of change.
Job description
This role will suit someone who enjoys coordination, and building relationships across diverse teams, with a focus on supporting governance and assurance activities and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in benefits management.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading collaboration to map, profile, and realise benefits across projects and other significant changes.
- Taking ownership of low complexity projects and business as usual change initiatives, working with and supporting Senior Benefits Managers on larger or more challenging initiatives.
- Maintaining high-quality, accurate, and up-to-date benefits information, including the benefits register, benefits management strategies, benefit maps and profiles, and realisation plans, ensuring progress is reported accurately and consistently.
- Championing the benefits management process, building capability and awareness to embed best practice.
Working to the government standard for Project Delivery and applying methodology, you will use best practice and seek improvements from lessons learned, relying on support from your peers and through access to accredited training and extensive professional development material.
Person specification
To be successful in this role you have knowledge/experience of benefits management, business case development, and project management practices.
You will have experience in:
- Experience of supporting and delivering change initiatives, including identifying actions, tracking progress, and contributing to successful outcomes without direct line management influence.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working and communicating effectively across different levels and teams.
- Experience supporting managers with the preparation and timely running of meetings and workshops, including agenda support, action tracking, and noting key decisions.
- Experience in organisation and coordination skills, including creating, maintaining, and controlling documentation and versioned records.
- Experience of managing conflicting demands and taking initiative to prioritise workload.
- Experience analysing information or data to identify trends, spot anomalies, problem solve and proactively recommend next steps with minimal supervision.
- Experience of facilitating meetings/ workshops
For more information about the role, please see the attached job description.
Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable. This will not be tested in the application or interview process.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Knowledge/experience of benefits management, business case development, and project management practices
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £39,849, HM Land Registry contributes £11,544 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
- We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
- We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
- We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
- We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.How to Apply
Please complete your CV to include your work history. We will be scoring your CV against the technical criteria and the essential experience:
- Experience supporting managers with the preparation and timely running of meetings and workshops, including agenda support, action tracking, and noting key decisions.
- Experience in organisation and coordination skills, including creating, maintaining, and controlling documentation and versioned records.
Complete the Technical section (in no more than 250 words), please demonstrate how you meet the following essential technical criteria:
- Knowledge/experience of benefits management, business case development, and project management practices
Then complete the Personal Statement section (in no more than 1000 words), please demonstrate how you meet the following essential Experience criteria:
- Experience of supporting and delivering change initiatives, including identifying actions, tracking progress, and contributing to successful outcomes without direct line management influence.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working and communicating effectively across different levels and teams.
- Experience analysing information or data to identify trends, spot anomalies, problem solve and proactively recommend next steps with minimal supervision.
- Experience of facilitating meetings/ workshops
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ –once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.
Sift
The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.
In case of a high volume of applications, we will complete a pre-sift on your technical section.
Then we may complete a second pre-sift on your CV.
Interview
If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview. The blended interview will test the Behaviours listed in the ‘Person Specification’ as well as the strengths associated with the role, details will be provided on invitation to interview.
We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.
We expect interviews to take place during the week commencing the 18th May 2026.
Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa.
You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.
You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Cherrie John
- Email : cherrie.john@landregistry.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/Attachments
BAU Candidate Pack April 2026 Opens in new window (pdf, 1699kB)Benefits Manager Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 195kB)Salary range
- £39,849 per year