Associate Consultant (Business Case Specialist)

About The Role

Job Title: Business Case Specialist
Location: UK
Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation, and reputation with a genuine global office network. Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management, make our business what it is today.
The Role – What is it we would like you to do?
We are looking for a Business Case Specialist to join our well-established and growing Healthcare Advisory team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to major hospital redevelopment programmes, leading the preparation of NHS business cases across all stages. Our team takes pride in being embedded within client programmes - working side-by-side with clinical, design, estates, and strategic teams to ensure that business cases are well-grounded, robust, and deliverable.
Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

Leading the drafting and coordination of NHS business cases across all stages (SOC, OBC, FBC), ensuring alignment with HM Treasury Green Book guidance. Where required this will also include short form business cases requiring external approval or business cases requiring internal approvals.
Supporting the NHS in securing investment for major infrastructure and transformation programmes by working in partnership with the NHS and advisory teams to ensure business case deliverables are produced on time and to the quality required.
Providing strategic advice with experience of providing consultancy services to NHS clients, with a focus on business cases.
Building and maintaining client relationships and actively identifying and pursuing new business opportunities.
Shaping and articulating the strategic case for investment, grounded in clinical, population, and service need.
Driving the development of economic appraisals and option analysis, working closely with finance and technical teams.
Embedding within client programmes to ensure that business case content reflects clinical, operational, financial and estate strategies. This will include coordinating inputs to ensure consistency in business case assumptions.
Supporting clients through internal and external assurance processes, including NHS England, ICB, and DHSC approvals.
Maintaining a strong working knowledge of NHS policy, infrastructure programmes (e.g. NHP), and capital funding frameworks.
Where relevant and required, mentoring junior colleagues on business case methodology and the principles of health capital investment planning.Requirements:

Demonstrable experience leading or contributing to NHS business cases (SOC, OBC, FBC) aligned to HM Treasury Green Book guidance.
Better Business Case trained at either practitioner level (ideally)
Strong knowledge of NHS capital investment processes, including routes through NHSE, DHSC, and ICBs.
Ability to integrate clinical, operational, digital, estates, and financial inputs into coherent and compelling business case narratives.
Skilled in economic appraisal methods (e.g., cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, MCA) and applying them within healthcare infrastructure planning.
Confident working within complex stakeholder environments and multidisciplinary teams on large-scale health programmes.
Excellent writing and document production skills, with the ability to translate technical inputs into accessible and persuasive content.
Awareness of NHS policy context, including the Long Term Plan, ICS priorities, and New Hospital Programme expectations. 
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support, and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don’t offer just a job; we offer a career with a clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity, and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds, and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas; they are essential to our success, which is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions, which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.
Get in Touch:
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please get in touch for a confidential chat.

About The Company
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously.   Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.  
We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow. 
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives