Senior Benefits Analyst

High Speed Two (HS2); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 41,092 - 48,344; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits fund of 15%

Pensionable benefits

Personal and professional development opportunities

Job summary

High Speed Two (HS2) is looking for a Senior Benefits Analyst to lead benefits management and reporting for rail programmes. You will work with analysts and stakeholders to provide robust evidence, ensuring that benefits commitments are tracked and well communicated.

The role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to manage complex programmes while promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience, along with excellent stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to apply benefits management and business case approaches.
• Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative evidence clearly.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Lead benefits and business case workstreams for HS2.
• Communicate and present complex analysis to stakeholders.
• Manage and provide assurance on benefits evidence and data.

Skills

Benefits management

Stakeholder management

Analytical techniques

Effective communication

Programme management

Education

Undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in relevant discipline

Job description

Salary Base salary: c£41,092pa to £48,344pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

Senior Benefits Analyst

As a Senior Benefits Analyst at HS2 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.

About the role

• The post holder leads 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.
• The role combines qualitative and quantitative evidence from HS2 delivery teams, analysts and the HS2 supply chain, assessing benefits, impacts and trade‑offs, and providing clear, well-judged advice, including where the evidence may be incomplete or evolving.
• The role supports 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.
• The post holder works 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.
• The role communicates benefits evidence and findings to key stakeholders, including non-analysts, adapting communication styles to the audience, and providing constructive challenge where improvement or action is required.
• The role may manage a junior analyst, including objective setting, performance appraisals, coaching, and development.

Actively promote and embed EDI

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About you

Skills:

• Ability to 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.
• Ability to analyse and interpret qualitative and quantitative evidence from multiple sources, identify risks and implications for benefit realisation, and communicate these clearly to stakeholders.
• Ability to manage a defined programme of work from high‑level requirements, prioritising tasks, coordinating inputs and assuring quality to meet agreed timescales.
• Ability to 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.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to present complex analysis clearly and accessibly through written material, briefings and presentations tailored to different audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to maintain strong relations with key stakeholders for the purpose of providing timely benefits evidence and expanding the evidence base.

Knowledge:

• An undergraduate or postgraduate qualification or the 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 (for example, 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.

Types of Experience:

• Experience of 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.
• Experience of working with and interpreting qualitative and quantitative evidence from multiple sources to inform benefits assessment, business case development, benefits reporting and decision making.
• Experience of building and managing effective working relationships with stakeholders and using evidence and narratives to influence decisions.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and assuring the quality of analytical and benefits evidence inputs to governance and assurance processes.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect.