Head of Learning & Development

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.

This is an exciting time to join Baringa as we continue to grow and strengthen the way we support our people to learn, develop and thrive. We have strong L&D foundations and a newly developed learning strategy in place; now we’re looking for a commercially minded, forward-thinking leader who can bring that strategy to life and turn it into meaningful business impact.

This role is about more than learning content design. It is about building a stronger learning culture: increasing engagement with our existing programmes, influencing senior leaders to prioritise development, shaping our approach to digital and AI-enabled learning, and leading a high-performing L&D function. As the lead for a strategic people area, this role will be part of our People Leadership Team.

• Implement our global L&D strategy

• Own our global learning strategy, leading its implementation and ensuring it stays closely aligned to Baringa’s growth, commercial priorities and people-first culture.
• Work in partnership with senior leaders, HRBPs and internal technical experts to identify the strategic capabilities we need to grow and remain competitive as a tech-savvy consultancy, particularly across digital, AI, software and new ways of working.
• Use data and insight to understand current and future capability gaps, focusing learning investment where it will make the biggest difference.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner and credible learning expert to senior stakeholders, influencing priorities and helping leaders take ownership of learning outcomes.
• Stay close to external trends in learning, technology, consulting and AI, bringing fresh thinking and practical recommendations to continuously improve our L&D offer.

• Drive learning adoption and culture change

• Increase engagement, participation and utilisation across Baringa’s learning offer, ensuring learning is visible, accessible and valued across the firm.
• Partner with leaders to remove barriers to learning, especially where client delivery and utilisation pressures can make development harder to prioritise.
• Embed learning into the flow of work through practical, scalable…