Associate Management Assistant

Our Associate Management practice are looking for an experienced Associate Management Assistant to join the team. 

The Associate Management team plays a key role in ensuring Baringa can access the right independent talent to support client delivery. We manage a large network of associates and suppliers, supporting the business with sourcing, workforce planning, onboarding, extending, offboarding, compliance and supplier management activities. The team also helps the business understand associate capability and availability so that external talent can be considered proactively alongside wider staffing options. 

What you will be doing

• Manage and maintain the Associate Pool, ensuring associate profiles, skills, availability, experience, and location data are accurate, up to date, and readily available to support workforce planning and project demand.
• Build and maintain relationships with suppliers, recruitment partners, and internal stakeholders, supporting supplier onboarding, referrals, sourcing discussions, and maintaining visibility of external talent capacity.
• Coordinate associate sourcing and opportunity management, identifying suitable associates for current and future demand, managing supplier engagement, candidate submissions, interviews, feedback, and ensuring opportunities progress efficiently through the engagement process.
• Partner with Staffing and Consulting teams to provide visibility of associate capability and availability, enabling effective resourcing decisions and workforce planning.
• Support the end-to-end associate lifecycle, including onboarding, contracting, extensions, offboarding, reporting, process improvement, data quality management, and the continuous enhancement of systems and ways of working.

Your skills and experience

• Experience in an administration, operations, recruitment, staffing, or workforce coordination role.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to maintain accurate data.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently, take ownership, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Familiarity with workforce, recruitment, or talent management processes and experience working with recruitment agencies or vendor management is a desirable.
• Experience using systems such as D365, Workday, or similar platforms is advantageous. 

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.

• 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.