Business Manager

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

The Sector Business Management team has a very wide range of activities supporting the realisation of strategic priorities, from supporting recruitment and business development through to identifying margin leakage and opportunities for improved resource utilisation. These roles benefit from the full support of the wider Baringa Enablement team, including a wide range of systems and tools, all of which are leveraged fully to the benefit of the sector or geography in question.

• Support the COO and Sector lead in the delivery of their objectives and in the coordination of sector-wide activities and communications (e.g. strategy updates, OKRs)
• Steer the leadership team towards the achievement of the sector objectives – with emphasis on strategic priorities, rather than day to day operations – by driving conversation, offering constructive, challenging questions & probes and managing the agenda and governance of the leadership forums
• Support the COO in regular review and reporting of progress towards agreed strategic priorities (through mechanisms such as the OKR framework) , including developing and sharing management information and insights, leadership communications and so on
• Support the Sector COO and leadership team through the management of sector level data sets and sourcing of information from which relevant insights and management information can be drawn. Work closely with Sector and central teams to marry local MI/KPI reporting requirements with the availability and cadence of data from centrally managed systems and tools, avoiding duplication of reporting or analysis.
• Support the Sector leadership with revenue / margin growth, ensuring that key operational activities (e.g. rate card reviews, pricing models, strategic account reviews etc.) are effectively carried out and outcomes implemented.
• Work with the leadership team and Baringa Enablement Marketing team to keep the sector aligned and on track to its committed campaigns and commercial and marketing plans
• Work alongside the COO in order to embed the Commercial Champion forum in order to ensure there is the right level of focus on commercial aspirations (rates) and discipline (i.e. debtors), but ensuring that accountability for this and the drive towards these ambitions is at the Business Unit level rather than the Sector
• Create links between supply & demand and future recruitment pipeline to ensure a forward-looking view of future skills and experience requirements inform recruitment planning.

• Experience of developing or streamlining processes and tools to…