Digital Advisory Associate (Sept 2027 Graduate Programme)

Cooper & Hall Limited; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 25.000 - 34.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Ankura – AI by Design’s Graduate Programme offers driven, curious, and high‑potential students the chance to experience deep work across AI Strategy, AI Governance Engineering and AI Workforce Transformation, learning to connect a business opportunity with a working solution.

With experienced colleagues, you'll support client teams, internal transformation and commercial go‑to‑market activities, rotating across our key solution pillars and gaining hands‑on delivery experience.

Formación

• On course for a 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) or above.
• Curiosity about how AI can improve organisations, and an interest in strategy, responsible technology and people.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to learn across all three disciplines.
• Analytical approach with the ability to research unfamiliar topics, assess evidence and explain reasoning, with a good foundation in data‑driven decision making.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining ideas to people with different levels of technical knowledge.
• Collaborative, feedback‑oriented and careful with client information.
• Enthusiasm for experimenting with AI tools and building practical solutions – familiarity with AI-assisted tooling (e.g., Codex, Claude Code, Cursor).
• Interest in how people experience change and awareness of AI risks and limitations.
• Experience through coursework, personal projects, coding or low‑code tools is useful, but not essential.

Responsabilidades

• Experience across AI Strategy, AI Governance Engineering and AI Workforce Transformation.
• Support client teams, internal transformation and commercial go‑to‑market activities.
• Work across our key solution pillars and connect advisory thinking with delivery.
• Build practical solutions and develop hands‑on delivery capability during rotations.

Conocimientos

Analytical thinking

Written communication

Verbal communication

Collaborative

Curiosity about AI

Ability to learn across disciplines

Research and evidence evaluation

Explain complex topics

Experience with AI tools

Coding / low-code tools

Educación

Undergraduate degree (2:1+ or above)

Herramientas

Codex

Claude Code

Cursor

Low-code tools

Descripción del empleo

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview

The AI Advisory practice is part of the Digital business group which is one of five strategic business groups at Ankura. Start your career helping organisations decide what to do with AI, how to build it responsibly and how to bring people with them. At Ankura's AI by Design practice, you'll connect strategic thinking with hands‑on experimentation and delivery to make AI truly transformative.

AI is changing the economics of how organisations operate, build and compete. The opportunity now is to adopt it quickly enough, in the right areas, to capture that value, while building the capability to keep moving where your business wants to go, where it wants to grow, as the frontier advances. This is where Ankura - AI by Design works.

We combine strategy, governance engineering and workforce transformation with hands‑on AI building and testing, alongside our curated ecosystem partners.

Graduate Programme

Ankura – AI by Design’s Graduate Programme offers driven, curious and high-potential students the chance to experience deep work across AI Strategy, AI Governance Engineering and AI Workforce Transformation, learning to connect a business opportunity with a working solution, to measure and prove value. With experienced colleagues, you'll work across our key solution pillars, supporting client teams, internal transformation and commercial go-to-market activities. Whatever competency you sit in, you will be a builder, a strategist, an advisor and an advocate with real, meaningful client work throughout the programme.

What you'll gain

You'll build a rounded understanding of AI transformation through rotations, practical project work and learning alongside specialists. You'll gain exposure to our ecosystem partners across these disciplines, including leading technology companies and frontier AI firms. Platform experience and hands‑on building will help you connect advisory thinking with delivery, while developing confidence to take on greater responsibility.

Requirements

AI by Design recognizes the importance of multidisciplinary perspectives in building a responsible and intentional future for technology. Our team includes designers, ethicists, researchers, technologists and more. We therefore encourage candidates from all academic disciplines to apply, provided they meet the role requirements listed.

• On course for a 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) or above.
• Curiosity about how AI can improve organisations, and an interest in strategy, responsible technology and people.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to learn across all three disciplines.
• An analytical approach, with the ability to research unfamiliar topics, assess evidence and explain your reasoning, with a good foundation in understanding aspects of using data for decisions.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining ideas to people with different levels of technical knowledge.
• A collaborative approach, openness to feedback and care when working with client information and colleagues.
• Enthusiasm for experimenting with AI tools, testing outputs critically and learning to build practical solutions – you do not have to be an AI engineer but you must have already explored building with any AI‑assisted tooling (e.g. Codex, Claude Code, Cursor).
• Interest in how people experience change, alongside awareness of the risks and limitations of AI.
• Experience through coursework, personal projects, coding or low‑code tools is useful, but not essential.

Vacancy closing date is Monday 19 October 2026 at 11:59 pm.

Ankura is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.