Graduate Analyst Programme - Capabilities

Our Graduate Analyst Programme

Our Graduate Analyst role offers the opportunity to start and grow your career at Baringa. As a permanent member of our team from day one, you'll work on a variety of real client and internal projects, develop valuable skills, and make a meaningful contribution from the outset.

You'll work alongside experienced consultants, building both your technical and professional capabilities through structured learning, hands-on experience, and ongoing development opportunities. Along the way, you'll build relationships across the business, collaborate with colleagues from different teams and sectors, and contribute to work that makes a real impact.

If you're a recent graduate looking to kick-start your career, Baringa offers a supportive and collaborative environment where you can develop your skills, gain practical experience, and build a successful long-term future with us.

We're looking for Graduate Analysts to join our Capabilities practice, with opportunities available across several of our specialist business units. During the application process, you'll have the opportunity to select the business unit that best aligns with your interests and aspirations.

The business units currently hiring are:

Customer

Imagine a world where customers are delighted, employee engagement soars and costs drop. This is the power of world-class omni-channel experiences. Our expert team anticipates change, crafting innovative solutions that blend seamlessly across all touchpoints. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, we transform service delivery, minimising costs while maximising impact. Ready to enhance your market position and unlock unprecedented value? Let’s redefine excellence together.

Desired Skills: Strong communication, teamwork, and relationship-building skills. Structured problem-solving and analytical thinking. A customer-focused mindset and interest in improving customer experiences. AI and digital literacy with a curiosity for emerging technologies. Adaptability, curiosity, and a proactive approach to learning and development.

Desired Degrees: Business Management, Product Design UX & UI, and Marketing

Enterprise Value Creation

Every organisation faces moments when it needs to grow faster, operate more efficiently or respond to changing market conditions. Baringa's Enterprise Value Creation team helps clients navigate these challenges by combining strategic thinking, analytical rigour, AI-native mindset, and practical delivery expertise. We advise executive leadership teams to identify opportunities, solve complex business problems and deliver sustainable improvements in growth, profitability, and performance.

Desired Skills: Structured problem solving, Data analysis, Digital and AI literacy, Team collaboration and personal communication, Adaptability, Commercial and financial curiosity.

Desired Degrees: Open to all degree types.

Organisation, People & Change

Organisation, People, and Change (OPC) enables organisations to achieve lasting success by putting people at the centre of transformation. With a holistic approach, our team helps clients align their operating models, people strategies, structures, and cultures with their strategic ambitions. OPC ensures organisations are equipped to deliver impact that lasts through an engaged and high-performing workforce.

As part of OPC, you will have the opportunity to work across a range of sectors, helping clients with a range of solutions:

• Optimising operations and organisational design: Align business capabilities, processes, and technology with the strategic ambition to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Unlocking leadership, culture, and workforce potential: Shape future skills, foster an engaged and high-performing workforce, and embed target cultures through people-led experiences.
• Crafting and delivering transformation and change strategies: Define the vision, strategic direction, and OKRs to create positive conditions for change, enabling organisations to deliver lasting impact.

Desired Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, Organisation and project management capability, Curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset, AI literacy and an interest in innovation, A genuine passion for consulting and transforming organisations and workforces through meaningful change.

Desired Degrees (not essential): Business management / Management and Organisational Behaviour, Psychology / Organisational Psychology, Engineering - critical thinking / problem solving, Data Analytics / Business Analytics.

Supply Chain & Procurement

The SCP team helps organisations tackle complex challenges across their supply chains, procurement functions and commercial operations. Working with clients across the public and private sectors, we help organisations navigate an increasingly uncertain world, responding to challenges such as cost pressures, supply chain disruption, changing customer expectations and rapid technological change.

As part of SCP, you'll work on a diverse range of projects spanning supply chain strategy, procurement transformation, commercial advisory, logistics, and technology-enabled change, as part of either our Supply Chain or Procurement & Commercial practice. Our teams combine analytical thinking, practical problem-solving and deep industry expertise to help clients create efficient, resilient and sustainable organisations that deliver lasting value.

Desired Skills: Structured problem solving, Team collaboration and effective communication, Adaptability and personal resilience, Proactive curiosity, Digital literacy.

Desired Degrees: No degree preference, analytical capabilities are key. If you have commercial acumen this is a bonus. Candidates may benefit from STEM experience, but this is not a requirement.

Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering

Expertly applied, data and AI empower you to operate smarter, innovate faster and compete harder. Blending exceptional technical skills with deep industry knowledge, our consultants make the possibilities real. We are experts in crafting practical data and AI solutions and integrating these into existing production workflows. Where data and AI requires new scalable technology, we work with you to establish the case for investment. And when new data insights are revealed, we ensure you have the right talent to unlock full value. Whether you are looking to establish a robust data infrastructure, foster a data-driven culture or ensure data and information security and compliance are maintained, we can help.

Desired Skills: Problem Solving, Data Analysis, Data Literacy, Technical Data Skills - BI, Python, Engineering, ML, Other coding languages.

Desired Degrees: STEM, Computer Science, Data Science, Other technical data/AI degrees

So, what's in it for you?

• You’ll join with a cohort of our Graduate Analysts. As a cohort, you will participate in our Analyst Development Programme. Our programme is designed to develop the client, commercial and people skills that you need for a successful career at Baringa.
• You will join our Global Analyst Community, connecting Analysts with one another to share their experiences and lessons learnt, whilst also gaining knowledge and skills from experienced Baringa people
• You decide on the development you need. We invest in you, to ensure you remain the best in the business, through formal training and qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• You can talk to anyone in the business. There are no barriers, and everyone is accessible, from our Analysts to our Partners. Out Partner to consultant ratio of 1:10, means you get to learn and work alongside our Directors and Partners on a daily basis.
• We’re proud to put people first with wellbeing at the forefront of our culture, one example of this is that every employee receives £300 a year to put towards their wellbeing!
• All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme, which seeks to ensure that everyone has a stake in the success of the company.
• We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break - As such we have introduced the ‘Re-charge’ benefit meaning Baringa will offer all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Lastly, we recognise the importance of work-life balance and we know that the ‘ideal’ balance will vary from person to person and will change at different stages of our working lives.

Requirements

• Applicants must have the permanent right to work in the UK now and in the future.
• All applicants will be asked for proof if invited to an assessment centre.

Please note we’re unable to sponsor individuals for this opportunity.

Key dates

Application window closes: Monday 19th October, 12pm GMT Midday
Assessment centres: New Year 2027
We are looking for individuals to start with Baringa September 2027

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.