CGI
Business Graduate / Trainee - 2026 - Agent Academy
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Position Description
Looking for a challenge? Excitement? Ready to own your career and make an impact from day one?
At CGI, we offer Early Careers opportunities that empower you to take ownership of your work and your future. Join us, and you’ll be part of the next generation of leaders and innovators, working to solve complex challenges and drive the digital transformation of industries.
The Role – Business Graduate / Trainee
As a Business Graduate / Trainee at CGI, you’ll step into a role where creativity and ownership are at the core. Whether you’re managing projects, analysing business needs, consulting with clients, or ensuring seamless service delivery, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of meaningful projects that matter. Our graduates are trusted with responsibility from day one, contributing to some of the UK’s most exciting industries.
CGI is a place where your ideas and solutions are not just welcomed, but essential. You’ll collaborate with colleagues and clients, combining your creativity with our global expertise to develop innovative solutions that solve real-world problems.
Your future duties and responsibilities
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Empowerment through Innovation: From the very start, you’ll play a key role in project delivery, helping shape the future of businesses across a range of industries.
- Collaborate and Create: Apply your insights to consult on and develop solutions that drive real value for clients, all while collaborating with CGI Partners to overcome complex challenges.
- Learn and Develop: As a CGI Early Careers Partner you will benefit from additional business, technical and soft skills training, helping you accelerate in your career from day one.
Working for one of our client-facing business areas, you will begin your role within Project Management, User Research, Bid and Proposal Management or Business Analysis. Your work will create tangible value as you build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues, both in your local community and through access to CGI’s global network.
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The successful Business Graduates / Trainees will be joining our North & Australia business unit working with our Energy, Utilities and Telecoms sectors.
Locations:
Location is flexible across our UK base offices, including our Manchester and Liverpool offices.
As CGI is a consultancy, you may be required to work in different locations, so flexibility and a willingness to travel are key.
Why Join Us?
At CGI, we believe in investing in our people. From the moment you join, you are not just an employee; you are a CGI Partner, with the opportunity and responsibility to participate in all aspects of the company. You’ll contribute to building a company we can all be proud of.
- Be Valued: You’ll be part of a culture that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, where your unique perspective and ideas are recognised and contribute to the success of the team and the organisation.
- Be empowered: You’ll start with a structured Early Careers Induction Programme designed to help you hit the ground running, and you’ll have access to ongoing mentorship from your buddy and managers.
- Be Creative: Our Student Kick-start Initiative will give you the chance to work with fellow graduates on creative and impactful projects beyond your day-to-day role.
With opportunities to gain professional qualifications and develop your skills through 24/7 access to e-learning platforms, you’ll be equipped to navigate your career with confidence.
Benefits:
Along with a competitive salary and a £1000 joining bonus, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:
- Be an owner: All CGI Partners are offered a stake and say in the business with a 3.5% matched share scheme, making you an owner from day one.
- Be supported: Award winning health and well-being programmes, access to world-class training and development and benefit from private medical insurance.
- Be secure: A competitive pension plan to help secure your future.
- Be connected: Take advantage of our free sports and social clubs, diversity networks, and local office events, helping you build connections and enjoy your time at CGI.
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CGI is an unconditionally inclusive workplace where you are respected, your voice is heard, and you can be yourself. We were recognized in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2024 and named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine.
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
What We’re Looking For:
We’re seeking individuals who are ready to take ownership of their career and are passionate about making a difference through technology and business. Whatever your education background, if you’re eager to learn, collaborate, and innovate, we want to hear from you.
- Flexibility to travel and work on different projects across the UK
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, project-based environment
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
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