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About the Role

Join our Operations and Improvement team to help clients unlock performance across their operational landscape, from supply chain optimisation to customer-facing delivery. Gain exposure to diagnosing inefficiencies, designing solutions, and implementing changes that drive measurable impact. Work with organisations to improve how they run, reimagine processes, systems, and ways of working to deliver better outcomes for customers, greater value for stakeholders, and more resilient operations.

Responsibilities

• Apply problem-solving skills across multiple teams to support client projects and internal initiatives.
• Use leading tools, methodologies, and consulting techniques.
• Share ideas and drive progress while developing skills and supporting clients.
• Collaborate with expert consultants.
• Benefit from supportive mentoring.
• Gain skills through hands-on learning and peer support.
• Research projects and deliver findings.
• Visit clients with a consulting team and represent the firm.
• Further development through crucial learning, guided and mentored by experts.
• Support the design of best-in-class consultancy solutions.
• Take early opportunities during the sales lifecycle.
• Perform a variety of roles across the whole change lifecycle.

Requirements

• Undergraduates with an industrial placement within their course structure and graduating in 2029.
• On track to gain an undergraduate degree.
• Growth-oriented and curious — open to change, driven to succeed, hungry for new challenges, and eager to broaden understanding.
• Collaborative and relationship-focused — thrive in dynamic teams, build strong relationships with clients and peers, and support others.
• Credible and communicative — comfortable in high-performance environments, with excellent communication skills.
• Analytical and adaptable — demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities, innovative thinking, and flexibility.
• Professional and reliable — show strong workplace etiquette by being punctual, dependable, and respectful of business expectations and office conduct.

Skills

• Problem-solving
• Innovative thinking
• Communication skills (written and verbal)
• Analytical skills
• Adaptability

Location

• London Victoria office

Work Type

• Hybrid working
• Minimum of two days per week in office or on client site
• Up to 5 days per week on a client site possible

Experience Level

• Undergraduate placement

Education Level

• Undergraduate degree

Salary/Compensations

• £28,860 per annum

Benefits

• Access to internal and external training, certifications, and development opportunities.
• Private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve)
• Opportunity to buy 5 additional days of annual leave
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

About the Company

• We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
• Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
• Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
• We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
• We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
• Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
• PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
• Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges.
• We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to advancing equality.
• We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
• We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.