Supply Chain – Logistics Consultant / Senior Consultant | Digital Supply Chain

About Baringa:
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges. 

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.


Our Supply Chain practice is looking for Consultants and Senior Consultants to join the team within our Logistics and Digital Supply Chain areas of expertise.

Our Supply Chain team partners with some of the most influential public and private sector organisations globally, tackling their toughest strategic supply chain challenges, working across sectors such as energy, utilities, government and products and services. We’re entering a critical time for global supply chains, with headwinds such as cost inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and climate change creating volatility and disruption like never before. Our clients need us to help them interpret those headwinds, help them manage complexity and critically ensure that their supply chain is continuing to be a cost-efficient and efficient growth enabler for their business. We’ve worked on some of the most exciting global supply chain projects including managing a multi-billion-pound logistics outsourcing and transition programme, creating the supply chain network strategies for some of the world’s leading fast moving consumer goods organisations, managing global supply chains on behalf of large medical aid development programmes, and designing and implementing technology-enabled business transformation initiatives.

 

What you will be doing
You’ll be part of a cohort of supply chain experts who are constantly improving their knowledge by staying on the pulse of the latest industry developments. Developing industry knowledge means we’re always on the front-foot to bring the latest, most relevant solutions to our clients. You will be working in client delivery teams to solve our clients most challenging supply chain issues. Interfacing with broader transformation programmes that could include everything from strategy and design through to implementation, typically within the following subject areas:

• Logistics: supply chain network design, logistics outsourcing, operational improvement, supply chain cost optimisation and automation implementation
• Digital Supply Chain: analyse the client requirements, data and supply chain technology. Solving complex client problems by connecting processes better, enhancing people capability, and utilising the right data along each part of the value chain to drive decision-making and improved performance

Your skills and experience
We’re looking for people that have experience within a supply chain and logistics setting – preferably with industry experience and have 2-3 of the below criteria:

• Logistics operations experience, including the design, development or operational responsibility for running automation
• Network optimisation experience, specifically network modelling using industry-known software packages or having the transferrable skills from other forms of modelling
• Supply chain data and analytics proficiency, include the ability to complete technical and complex excel analysis, and using visualisation tools
• Knowledge of existing supply chain digital landscape including ERP, planning systems, WMS and TMS with experience of design, development, implementation or the operational responsibility of running those systems
• Contribution to the development of strategic decisions within a transformation context, including the development of business cases and Board papers
• An existing industry network ecosystem that includes peers, cross-industry stakeholders (such as 3PLs, technology providers, automation providers) and extended network relationships with existing or previous suppliers or customers
• Has a point of view that could be developed into market-facing collateral on key industry themes such as the impact of geopolitics on supply chain, the development of AI within supply chain or the rise of logistics automation

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.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• 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.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further .