Consultant, Capabilities, Supply Chain in London

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Our Supply Chain practice are looking for an experienced Consultant or Senior Consultant to join the team. 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

Working in client delivery teams to solve our clients' most challenging logistics and planning issues, contributing to wider supply chain transformation programmes from strategy and design through to implementation.

• Logistics: supporting network strategy and modelling, logistics outsourcing and commercial negotiations, warehouse and transport operating model design, inventory optimisation, service and cost improvement, digital logistics and sustainable logistics solutions.
• Planning: supporting planning transformation across demand, supply and production planning, S&OP / IBP, inventory policy setting, planning operating model design, planning systems and data, forecast analytics, capacity planning and performance management.

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.

Your skills and experience

We’re looking for people that have experience within a supply chain and logistics setting – some industry experience is preferable and with 2-3 of the below criteria.

• Logistics experience across one or more of: network design or optimisation, warehousing, transport, fulfilment, 3PL / 4PL outsourcing, logistics operating model design, cost-to-serve, service improvement, automation or last mile / urban logistics.
• Planning experience across one or more of: demand planning, supply planning, production planning, S&OP / IBP, inventory policy, capacity planning, forecasting, planning operating model design, planning process improvement or planning systems implementation.
• Strong analytical capability, including the ability to structure problems, work confidently with imperfect data, build robust Excel-based analysis or models, interpret operational and financial data, and translate findings into clear recommendations.
• Experience using supply chain systems, data and digital tools, such as ERP, advanced planning systems, WMS, TMS, reporting / visualisation tools or other planning, logistics or analytics platforms.
• Ability to contribute to transformation delivery, including current state assessments, process design, operating model design, business cases, implementation planning, stakeholder engagement, change impact assessment and KPI / performance management.
• Comfort working in multi-disciplinary teams and with stakeholders across supply chain, commercial, finance, operations and technology, including facilitating workshops, synthesising inputs and creating clear client-facing materials.
• A developing point of view on relevant supply chain themes, such as supply chain resilience, planning capability, inventory optimisation, logistics outsourcing, digital supply chain, AI / analytics, automation, green logistics or supply chain sustainability.

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 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: 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.

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.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered 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.