Overview
Your rewarding career starts here. This is your opportunity to join an innovative healthcare consulting firm as an Analyst, working to provide innovative solutions to improve healthcare across a range of markets.
About Us
Carnall Farrar (CF) is a growing consultancy which works across all aspects of the health sector from supporting the NHS to serving major life science companies. We are passionate about, and experts in health and healthcare. Founded in 2013 we have grown to a core staff base of management consultants, technical consultants, a data operations team and corporate functions. We have a strong reputation with the NHS and are actively seeking to spread awareness of our brand and offers across the health sector more broadly. We are highly regarded both internally and externally for the level of support and development we give our people. As a professional services business, CF has three primary assets - its people, its knowledge and its data and associated products.
Our purpose
To have enduring positive impact on health and healthcare.
Our mission
To be invaluable to our clients, supporting them to innovate and make lasting improvements and to build an exceptional company that attracts, develops, and retains a trusted and uniquely talented team.
Our strategic intent
We are focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to the health sector. We serve the entire sector including healthcare systems (providers, payors, regulators), life sciences (pharma, biotech, devices, and diagnostics), health investing, health tech (data, digital and apps) and the wider suppliers to the sector. Our clients include public sector organisations, private sector companies and investors. We provide consultancy across a broad spectrum of services, reflecting the expertise of the CF leadership team and their ability to act as trusted advisors to chief executives, directors, and boards on the most important issues they face. We help organisations to improve population health and the effectiveness of life sciences and healthcare through understanding their aspirations, helping them to identify opportunities to create value, spotting and applying innovation in practice, adopting best-in-class management approaches and providing hands-on support to deliver improvements. Our consulting is renowned for its use of data and the insights this creates. We have access to more UK healthcare data than any other company and are expert in its safe use for delivering healthcare, improving health, managing services, supporting uptake of innovation, undertaking research, and generating evidence. Our access to data and our engineering and data science capabilities supports our consulting, and they are also available for direct client services including in multidisciplinary teams.
Career development
We are growing a team of expert consultants who want to be at the leading edge of the profession and who have a passion for health. With structured career development from Analyst to Partner in a model of apprenticeship, mentorship, and formal training alongside opportunities to work in industry we are cultivating the leaders of the future. We support future leaders to grow and develop their own unique focus that builds on their expertise, our capabilities and creates value for our clients.
Analyst training programme
Our accredited training programme has been running for 8 years and has supported staff growth into leadership roles. Whether your preference is to follow a path in the consulting team or in the data innovation team, the learning and development programme will set you up for success. We have achieved Chartered Management Consulting (ChMC) accreditation for our learning and development programme, the highest recognition in the field, meaning you will embark on a successful training programme, leading to associate chartered management consulting experience after 3 years and full accreditation after 5 years.
Year one training
In your first year, you will undergo a comprehensive training programme designed to equip you with essential consulting and technical skills for client projects. The curriculum integrates core consulting principles with technical expertise to prepare you for your role.
Year two development
In your second year, you will receive targeted training to further enhance your capabilities. You’ll specialise along one of two tracks:
* Technical Data Analyst track: data analysis, data science, data engineering and software engineering, with eventual specialisation
* Consulting Senior Analyst track: progression within the consulting team, honing strategic consulting skills for more senior roles
As you advance, opportunities for growth and specialisation continue within our structured career paths.
Year three
In year three of the programme, you’ll have the opportunity to complete a secondment if you don’t already have health industry experience.
Responsibilities
* Structure and carry out task-driven analysis to support the project under supervision
* Ensure accurate use of data and check outputs
* Synthesise information and create high-quality visuals and storylines
* Build effective relationships with peers within the client group
* Contribute to development of high-quality extension proposals, including exhibits, case studies and CVs
* Demonstrate understanding of the client’s business and market trends
* Work with the leadership team to identify opportunities within existing clients
* Flag concerns or issues in delivery and propose possible solutions
* Understand how own work contributes to project goals and manage tasks accordingly
* Present findings clearly and contribute to problem solving
* Contribute to knowledge management tools and research using multiple methods
* Use core tools (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) for clear presentations
* Apply foundational data analysis skills (Python, SQL) and develop interactive visualisations
* Contribute to technical solutions, data pipelines, and front-end interfaces
Requirements
Mandatory
* Minimum 2:1 graduate degree in a related subject
* Passion for healthcare (cover letter encouraged)
* Ability to analyse and synthesise information to draw actionable conclusions
* Ability to meet deadlines with quality and attention to detail
* Pro-active communication and teamwork skills
* Self-motivated and flexible in a non-structured environment
* IT literacy (Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word)
* Enthusiasm for working with clients and colleagues in their environment
* Legal right to work in the UK
* Desired Knowledge of basic computer science concepts, data structures and algorithms
* Experience with coding in one or more programming languages
* Experience with SQL
Recruitment process
* Application submission and screening: CV, cover letter and application questions by 16 November 2025
* Online tests (numerical, verbal reasoning, Excel): by 17 November 2025
* Telephone screen: 17-23 November 2025
* In-person assessment centre: 09 or 11 December 2025
* Job offers: December 2025
Two planned start dates: 01 June and 05 October 2026. We’ll try to accommodate your preference but cannot guarantee it.
Flexible working
We follow a hybrid model balancing in-person connections and remote work. You can work from home one day per week as standard. We offer 44 remote working days per year, allowing up to two days per week from home (subject to client needs). In-person core hours are 10:00–16:00.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to an inclusive culture where diversity thrives. We recruit, promote and reward based on skills and contribution, without regard to gender, race, disability, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or other characteristics. We are Disability Confident Accredited and can provide reasonable adjustments during recruitment on request.
Benefits
* Holidays: 25 days/year (staff) / 30 days/year (leadership), increasing up to 35
* Pension: 7% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution
* Flexible benefits programme including pension increases, cash plan, or ClassPass
* Annual leave purchase and enhanced sick pay
* Life insurance and enhanced family leave policies
* Loans: interest-free loan up to £10,000 and season ticket loan
* Nursery, flu jabs, eye care vouchers, ride-to-work scheme
* Flexible working policy and Lifeworks employee wellness program
We are committed to improving healthcare through collaboration with health systems and the life sciences industry. Our work includes consulting and data services and products for health systems and the life sciences sector.
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