MBA Careers for Alumni

Bright Network is a boutique, membership-only network that works exclusively with the brightest graduates and undergraduates in the UK and Europe. All members must have achieved at least ABB at A Level or attained a 2:1 from either a Times Top 20 or Russell Group university, such as Bath.

Bright Network provides a peer-to-peer referral platform where members work with in-house headhunters to identify and recommend candidates who have the potential to work at top firms such as Goldman Sachs, Slaughter and May and Mind Gym.

To read an interview with the businesses founder please follow the link: http://www.businessbecause.com/news/inside-view-on-top-jobs/inside-view-bright-network-81305

To join ‘Bright Network’, please go to there website: http://www.brightnetwork.co.uk/login.php

Lloyd’s Banking Group, the UK’s biggest banking group by market share, is looking for MBAs to join its Future Executives Programme. With opportunities in every business area, a generous rewards package and roles for both MBAs with finance experience and those with non-banking experience, this is one of the biggest and most diverse MBA programmes around.

They will be hiring around 25 MBA-qualified professionals in October 2012. The Future Executives Programme has been designed specifically for hiring and developing MBA graduates.

To read an interview with the Senior Talent Manager at Lloyds please click on the following link: http://www.businessbecause.com/news/inside-view-on-top-jobs/inside-view-lloyds-banking-group-81314

To apply for the role or find out more details, please follow the link to Lloyds dedicated MBA website: www.lloydsbankinggroupmba.com

The University of Bath is part of the Santander Universities network, a global network of more than 900 universities supported in a range of ways by Santander bank. Part of this sponsorship enables our students, academic staff and alumni to take part in a summer course at a leading US university for free.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship supported by Santander Universities and Sovereign Bank, the participants will have their expenses with tuition, accommodation, breakfast and some dinner covered during the programs. (With the BIARI Program – airfares will also be covered).

If you would like to apply please email us to receive further details.

Brown University, Brown International Advanced Research Institutes – BIARI

Program Dates: 9^th – 23^rd June 2012

Deadline for applications: 17^th February 2012

Info and Applications: www.brown.edu/biari

The Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) is directed to young faculty and professionals from around the world to address pressing global issues through innovative research and pedagogy. .

University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School Trendlab on Sustainability

Program Dates: April 9^th – 13^th 2012

Deadline for applications: March 1^st

A workshop and conference designed to bring together a group of scholars and policy makers with backgrounds in science, engineering, management, and the social sciences. The topic will be sustainability, broadly defined to include all efforts directed at ensuring that the satisfaction of present needs does not come at the expense of satisfying needs in the future.

The Pen Lauder CIBER Summer Institute

Program Dates: June 10^th – 15^th 2012

Deadline for applications: April 16^th 2012

The CIBER Summer which trains educators in curriculum and lesson planning oriented toward professional content and contexts, focusing on a learner-centred approach to business language instruction.

Anderson School of Management UCLA – W50 Leadership Program for Women

Program Dates: June 10^th – 15^th 2012

Deadline for applications: March 1^st

Info and Applications: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x34186.xml.

Banco Santander has created the W50 Program in partnership with UCLA Anderson Executive Education to equip our next generation of global women leaders for service as board directors. Santander’s purpose in launching this program is to strengthen its relationship with the Santander Universities Network, and to establish Santander as an advocate of higher education providing women with career development and psychosocial support. Participants selected from the Santander Universities Network will be provided with developmental tools, training and knowledge to improve productivity, and the skills to retain talent and ensure the future success of organizations.

Consultant/Analyst – London Based + Significant Travel
Salary: £25-50k depending on experience
Serco is a FTSE 100 international service and business process outsourcing company which combines commercial intelligence with deep service excellence. Serco has created a sizeable management consultancy practice within its International BPO Division made up of experienced consultants drawn from market leaders.

When consulting to clients, we offer a combination of deep service line expertise coupled with broad consulting capability, delivering practical and innovative solutions to our clients both in the UK and abroad. We currently
consult in the UK, Middle East, India and Australia and expect to increase this footprint over the next 5 years.
To help us achieve this growth, Serco Consulting is currently looking for Consultant/Analysts to join its core consulting team. We are looking for high-calibre candidates who are keen to accelerate their career, bring a
strong work ethic and want to commit to an organisation growing internationally. We will offer you the ability to work alongside industry experts, high quality training and professional development, including as much stretch as you need to advance your career.  You will be based out of our central London office and whilst the majority of your work will be located within the M25, you will be expected to be both UK and internationally mobile.
The requirement:
As the successful candidate, you will have a base knowledge of business gained from consultancy or operational roles in the public or private sectors and, ideally, you will also have exposure to, or enhanced knowledge of one of the following areas:
1. People, Performance and Change:
You will have a passion for HR and organisational transformation, as well as managing and delivering change. We expect a minimum of 1 year’s experience of client delivery within a consulting firm or similar environment, and ideally a combination of HR advisory and operational experience (preferably as a generalist or business partner).
People and Change skills are required as roles will typically form part of larger transformation programmes, advising on short and long term impacts of change, assessing business readiness, advising and implementing on target operating models, performance management and metrics, and optimising
human resource or people management functions.
2. Operational Strategy & Transformation
Your key role will be to support projects and consulting workstreams across an organisation’s operations.  You will work with a team of consultants who will be responsible for the delivery of high quality solutions and high impact results. For this role you will be able to demonstrate that you have some of the following:
• Knowledge and experience of transformation, particularly in a supply chain, procurement or purchasing or financial services context;
• Practical experience of operations, performance and cost-based analysis
• Ability to design and build complex dynamic business models (i.e. work with high volumes of data and draw out key insights from analysis) is highly desirable
3. Programme Delivery:
You will be working with a team of experienced and high quality individuals who have typically come from a Big 4 background and you will be involved in the shaping, planning and delivery of large, complex and challenging Transformation and Transition Programmes.  Additionally, you will have an appreciation of the key techniques involved in the delivery of complex
project and programmes such as PRINCE2 or MSP and will have the personality and enthusiasm to work as part of a large multi disciplinary team.
Serco Consulting prides itself on high quality client delivery; therefore ideal candidates will be completer-finishers as well as having the ability to engage more strategically. The ability to spot, clearly articulate and respond to
business opportunities is key.
To apply by email to this position, please send your CV and covering letter by 28th February to:-
resource.team@serco.com. Selected candidates will be invited to attend an assessment day, which will be held on 14th / 15th March 2012.
By applying for this role, you are confirming your entitlement to live and work in the UK.