Senior Benefits Analyst in Birmingham

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: £41,092pa to £48,344pa, depending on skills and experience. Additionally, a flexible benefits fund of 15% paid on top of base salary and fully pensionable. Competitive benefits are outlined on the website.

About The Role

As a Senior Benefits Analyst, you will support the delivery of HS2 and related rail programmes by leading defined benefits and business case workstreams. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and clearly articulating robust evidence on passenger, economic, and wider public benefits, ensuring that agreed benefits commitments are understood, tracked, and embedded across the programme. The role also contributes to benefits management and reporting, using proportionate analysis and judgement to support advice to the Department for Transport, including how benefits are developing and how they are realised over time.

• Lead agreed benefits and business case workstreams, ensuring that evidence, analysis, and narrative are delivered to the required quality, within agreed timescales, to support HS2 Ltd and Department for Transport decision‑making.
• Combine qualitative and quantitative evidence from HS2 delivery teams, analysts and the HS2 supply chain, assessing benefits, impacts and trade‑offs, and provide clear, well‑judged advice, including where the evidence may be incomplete or evolving.
• Support benefits reporting, engaging with stakeholders to ensure robust inputs, and producing assured and timely outputs to provide senior leaders at HS2 Ltd with the benefits evidence base to support the scheme.
• Work collaboratively across HS2 Ltd and with the Department for Transport to agree evidence requirements, provide proportionate assurance, and ensure that decision‑making is based on reliable and transparent information.
• Communicate benefits evidence and findings to key stakeholders, including non‑analysts, adapting communication styles to the audience, and provide constructive challenge where improvement or action is required.
• May manage a junior analyst, including objective setting, performance appraisals, coaching and development.

Skills

• Apply benefits management and business case approaches to bring together evidence from multiple sources and provide clear advice that informs strategic narratives and investment decisions.
• Analyse and interpret qualitative and quantitative evidence from multiple sources, identify risks and implications for benefit realisation, and communicate these clearly to stakeholders.
• Manage a defined programme of work from high‑level requirements, prioritise tasks, coordinate inputs and assure quality to meet agreed timescales.
• Work constructively with analysts, delivery teams and the HS2 supply chain to shape requirements, coordinate inputs and assure the quality of benefits evidence and data used for reporting and assurance.
• Communicate effectively, presenting complex analysis clearly and accessibly through written material, briefings and presentations tailored to different audiences.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships to provide timely benefits evidence and expand the evidence base.

Knowledge

• Undergraduate or postgraduate qualification or equivalent professional experience in a relevant discipline such as benefits management, business case development, economics, finance, public policy, programme management or management consultancy.
• Knowledge of public‑sector business case development and appraisal, including how evidence, analysis and narrative are brought together to support investment decisions (e.g., familiarity with HM Treasury and Department for Transport guidance).
• Knowledge of benefits identification, assessment, and management, including the development and use of benefits baselines, performance measures, and benefits reporting and assurance across projects and programmes.
• Knowledge of analytical techniques used to inform business cases and benefits assessment, with confidence in working with data and analysis produced by others.

Experience

• Developing and delivering benefits evidence and business case inputs within a project or programme environment, preferably within a government department, public sector body, infrastructure organisation, or commercial/consultancy environment.
• Working with and interpreting qualitative and quantitative evidence from multiple sources to inform benefits assessment, business case development, benefits reporting and decision making.
• Building and managing effective working relationships with stakeholders and using evidence and narratives to influence decisions.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team and assuring the quality of analytical and benefits evidence inputs to governance and assurance processes.

Employment Rights & Equal Opportunity

HS2 Ltd is an equal opportunity employer and actively promotes and embeds Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all its work, complying with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI. The role requires the applicant to be a UK resident with the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.