Empower
your people
Working at BFY
Awesome people, delivering exceptional results
Looking for a career move that keeps you motivated, and encourages you to progress? At BFY Group, we’re a forward-thinking consultancy with a unique culture. Our people, services, and processes are all aligned to one shared goal – delivering exceptional results for our clients. It’s for this reason that we’ve gained a market-leading reputation in Energy and Utilities.
We attract leading talent from across the country, with an extensive package of employee benefits, and a long-established flexible working policy. Our Nottingham office is an amazing environment for work, but we don’t expect our people to be there all of the time.
As we continue to outperform our growth plan, we remain on the search for awesome humans, who are excited about solving our client’s biggest challenges, and enhancing their career journey with us. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear more.
Our approach to hiring is a bit different, much like our culture. We find people who are great at what they do, whether in consulting, the utilities industry, or elsewhere, and train them with the skills to succeed at BFY.
“I love the huge variety in my work, the autonomy I have to shape our projects and influence senior clients, and even the occasional unpredictable nature that comes with working in the energy industry – no two days are ever the same! I get real job satisfaction from doing great work for clients, who trust us to deliver the messages and the changes that are needed – and I’m really proud to be able to do this with small teams of great people.”
Rachel Littlewood
Director
“I love the caring and nurturing culture at BFY. There is a razor-sharp focus on learning and development that is driven from the top, ensuring everyone has access to the tools and resources needed to succeed in their current role and plan your next move through the career development framework. As a collective we work as a team supporting one another and leveraging our strengths to deliver exceptional work. The fast-paced environment really motivates me as it encourages autonomy, innovation and means there is always plenty to get involved in."
Corrine Osborne
L&D Manager
“When you join a new company it can be daunting, am I good enough? will I be able to do it? Imposter syndrome can be a real worry, joining BFY is a genuinely awesome experience. Through the process you get to speak to everyone on the team and what's amazing is how open and readily available to help EVERYONE is! The culture here is fantastic and you get to make your own decisions within an incredibly supportive framework."
Kev Brown
Senior Consultant
Team First
Our first responsibility is to one another and the team. We will leverage our collective strengths to collaborate, problem solve and support one another to deliver exceptional work to our clients.
Smart
We have strong IQ and EQ. We seek opportunities to leverage our strengths and to improve our areas of weakness. We have good judgment and intuition around the subtleties of group dynamics and the impact of our words and actions.
Self Starter
We are driven by an internal force that propels us forward, we don’t rely on external influences to motivate us. We don’t seek permission or validation and instead focus on setting down our plans and intentions.
Ambitious
We are hungry. Always looking for ways to add value and step up to drive the business forward towards our goals. We are constantly thinking about the next opportunity and take full ownership of our personal development and growth.
Resilient
We actively work to build and strengthen our resilience. We reflect when things don’t go to plan and see challenges as opportunities to learn and grow. We can bend and bounce back more quickly as a result.
Dynamic
We approach everything we do with a positive attitude, move at pace and share and drive innovative ideas.
Benefits
We reward our people for their hard work. Everyone at BFY has access to our market-leading benefits package, which we review constantly to provide the best possible working experience for our team.
When working at BFY, you will receive:
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A competitive salary, in line with your capability and experience
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Twice-yearly bonuses, reflective of your own performance
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Twice-yearly opportunities for promotion
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Paid for learning and development experiences
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Access to a salary sacrifice scheme
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Access to private medical insurance
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Access to mental health and wellbeing support, through Plumm Health
Our staff are treated as grown ups, who are able to balance the needs of their clients, their teams, and themselves, to be in the right place to get the right things done.
We're able to offer flexible working from day one, in order to attract and retain the best talent in the industry.
Here are some examples:
A number of our team work a 4 day week, to allow them to pursue personal goals outside of work.
Some of the team compress full time hours into a reduced number of days, enabling them to spend more time with their family.
Some of the team work 9 days in 10.
You can 'buy' unlimited holidays at BFY (on top of the 33 days as standard) as part of our flexible benefits package.
Some times you need to be around to take the kids to school or collect them, and in the school holidays you might need more time off. We understand this and have got you covered.
We also have great fun. We host a company-wide check in three times a week, a team quiz on a Friday, regular social events, and we have an awesome selection of memes for all occasions.
We're a Great Place To Work
In recognition of our people focussed, high performing culture - we were certified as a Great Place To Work in 2022.
Our GPTW survey produced amazing results, with 100% of our people agreeing that:
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Everyone at BFY can be themselves at work
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Everyone at BFY genuinely cares about each other
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Everyone at BFY goes above and beyond to get the job done
To read the full story of our GPTW journey, click here.
What do we do?
Our Service Lines
At BFY we focus on four core lines of business:
We use the expertise of our people, combined with out consulting toolkit, to deliver exceptional work for clients.
If you're recognised as being an expert, or you've got a real ability to make change happen, then we'd love to hear from you.
Our Industry Sectors
We're very well recognised and respected in our core industry sectors of Energy, Water, and Utilities.
Our Operational Excellence and Transformation practices are Industry agnostic - we can deploy those skills into any industry sector.
We're continuing to hire into our Water practice, and grow our Financial Services practice.
How can you join us?
Our Recruitment Process
We follow a very structured approach to ensure we find the right candidate, that is the right cultural fit.
Candidates will experience the following stages:
Giving clients strategic and market-driven advice.
Helping clients to improve their debt management capabilities, by applying our Debt Maturity Assessment, or supporting a Debt Sale.
Improving core business areas, by implementing our Operational Excellence model for People and Processes.
Delivering change through Re-platforming and the development of Operating Models.
Our Vacancies
We are always hunting for two core roles at BFY:
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Management Consultant - Problem solvers who can get to grips with analysis of root causes, and lead workstreams with clients
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Transformation Manager - Delivery experts who know how to get things done, ensure outcomes, and drive benefits
You can always find these roles on our BFY Jobs page. If you're worried you might not a perfect fit for these roles - but you are an awesome human - then please submit a speculative application, as we'd love to hear from you.
Initial call to assess if the chosen role is right for you.
First formal stage to assess your cultural fit with BFY.
A competency based assessment to determine your capabilities in the role's skill areas.
Final stage to confirm how you would fit in with the BFY team.
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Current Vacancies
Our Culture
Values
Our values are more than just an idea. We've built our Career Development Framework around them, meaning we're regularly assessing ourselves, and our peers, against each of the areas below.