UK Summer Internship 2027 - Capabilities

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, Baringa 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. Capabilities span strategy, transformation, and operational excellence, all powered by advanced technology, data, AI, and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way teams integrate seamlessly. The firm is known for kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success, helping clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

2027 Summer Internships (Capabilities)

Our Internship

The eight-week Summer Internship Programme is designed to give you hands-on experience, meaningful responsibility, and a true insight into life at Baringa. Over the course of the programme, you’ll work alongside experienced consultants and specialists on real projects, develop valuable skills through tailored learning opportunities, and build connections across the business. Whether you’re exploring career options or looking to kick-start your professional journey, the internship offers a supportive environment where you can learn, grow, and make an impact.

What’s in it for you?

Well, it’s up to you. Baringa is what you make it.

The Summer Internship Programme is designed to help you build your skills, expand your network, and gain first-hand experience of consulting. From day one, you’ll make a meaningful contribution, while also exploring future career opportunities at Baringa, including the opportunity to be considered for a permanent Analyst role after graduation.

Summer Internship opportunities are available across a range of Capability business units. Explore the summaries below to learn more about each team and discover where your skills and interests could make an impact. Additional information is available on Baringa’s website.

Our Capabilities

Customer

Imagine a world where customers are delighted, employee engagement soars, and costs drop. This is the power of world-class omni-channel experiences. The Customer team anticipates change, crafting innovative solutions that blend seamlessly across all touchpoints. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Baringa transforms service delivery, minimising costs while maximising impact.

Desirable skills & degrees: Business management, Project Management, Analytics, Automation, AI, passion for customer experience.

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, an AI-native mindset, and practical delivery expertise. The team advises executive leadership teams to identify opportunities, solve complex business problems, and deliver sustainable improvements in growth, profitability, and performance.

Desirable skills & degrees: Problem solving, data analysis, digital & AI literacy, team collaboration, communication, adaptability, and commercial & financial curiosity.

Organisation, People & Change

Organisation, People, and Change (OPC) helps organisations achieve lasting success by putting people at the centre of transformation. With a holistic approach, the 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 solutions including:

• Optimising operations and organisational design: align business capabilities, processes, and technology with 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.

Desirable degrees: Business management/Management & Organisational Behaviour, Psychology/Organisational psychology, Engineering, Data analytics/Business Analytics.

Desirable skills: Strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, project management, problem identification and problem solving, team collaboration and personal communication, and a growth mindset with hunger to learn.

Supply Chain & Procurement

The Supply Chain & Procurement (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, the team helps organisations respond to 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 within either the Supply Chain or Procurement & Commercial practice. The teams combine analytical thinking, practical problem-solving, and deep industry expertise to help clients create efficient, resilient, and sustainable organisations that deliver lasting value.

Desirable degrees: STEM & non-STEM.

Desirable skills: Problem solving, data analysis, digital and AI literacy, team collaboration, personal communication, adaptability, commercial and financial curiosity.

Data & AI

Expertly applied, data and AI empower you to operate smarter, innovate faster, and compete harder. Blending exceptional technical skills with deep industry knowledge, Baringa’s consultants craft practical data and AI solutions and integrate them into existing production workflows. Where data and AI requires new scalable technology, the team helps establish the case for investment. When new data insights are revealed, the team ensures the right talent is in place to unlock full value—whether that’s establishing robust data infrastructure, fostering a data-driven culture, or maintaining data and information security and compliance.

Desirable degrees: STEM, Computer Science, Data Science, other technical data/AI degrees.

Desirable skills: Problem solving, data analysis, data literacy, and technical data skills including BI, Python, engineering, and ML.

Digital & Technology

Technology decisions now determine whether organisations grow or stall, and clients are under pressure to move faster than ever. Baringa’s Digital & Technology team helps clients across five areas:

• Digital Value Creation: turning technology, AI, and platforms into real financial outcomes.
• Critical Technology Programme Recovery: stabilising major programmes when the stakes are highest.
• Platform Enabled Transformation: guiding major bets organisations place on ERP, CRM, cloud, and AI.
• Scaling AI: moving capability out of pilots and into enterprise-wide advantage.
• Digital Resilience / Cybersecurity: protecting the value transformation creates.

The work spans advisory, delivery leadership, and digital risk and cyber. From day one, you’ll contribute directly to client deliverables using approved digital and AI tools to improve the quality and efficiency of your work, while applying the human review and judgement that responsible AI requires. You’ll build relationships with clients and colleagues, keep your team informed so there are no surprises, and develop a clear understanding of how your work helps clients achieve their objectives.

Desirable degrees: Business/Management, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science & AI, Information Systems, Engineering. Also welcome candidates from design, social science, law and humanities backgrounds who can demonstrate genuine technology interest and strong analytical capability.

Desirable skills: Genuine curiosity about AI, structured problem solving, attention to detail, data analysis and data-driven diagnostics, clear written and verbal communication, commercial and financial curiosity, awareness of technology risk, security and resilience, collaboration and an inclusive mindset, and composure and adaptability.

Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL)

Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL) focuses on helping clients control their data, turn it into actionable insights, and better leverage it through machine learning solutions embedded into business processes. The practice supports clients across a number of industries and offers deep expertise in AI, ML, Cloud, and Managed Solutions. Baringa is seeking passionate and dynamic ML engineers who are excited by building production machine learning solutions.

Desirable degrees: A degree in a STEM related field is required; Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering are preferred.

Desirable skills: Passion for AI, machine learning, and solving real-world problems; analytical and problem-solving skills; collaborative approach; clear communication; curiosity; adaptability; and eagerness to learn new technologies.

Requirements

• Applicants should be in their penultimate year of their bachelor’s or master’s degree studies.
• 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. Baringa is unable to sponsor individuals for this opportunity.

Any questions can be directed to earlycareers@baringa.com.

Key dates

• Application window closes: Monday 28th September 2026 at 12:00pm GMT
• Assessment centres: w/c 30th November / 7th December
• Internship start: Monday 5th July 2027
• Internship end: Friday 27th August 2027

This is a paid full-time internship.

For further information, please read the Summer Internship 2027 pack.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Workplace Culture

Putting People First

Baringa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The firm believes creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to its culture, and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for clients and people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be part of Baringa’s “Great Place to Work” with its commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of its recent awards and how it has achieved this.

Using business as a force for good

Baringa maintains high standards of environmental performance and transparency through its commitment to Net Zero, with SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and support of the Better Business Act. Progress is reported publicly, and the firm is externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis to help continually identify areas for improvement.

Baringa also has a long legacy of supporting the communities in which it works, offering a variety of ways to contribute through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda. The focus is on giving back by sharing skills, talent, and time, and supporting registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase positive impact.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of the Talent Acquisition team. Baringa never relies solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Applications are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith, or social background. The firm does not filter applications by university background and encourages those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. Baringa actively encourages applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. It operates an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of the Recruitment Team to discuss further.