Senior Manager - Affairs, Commercial

London, United Kingdom

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 role is focused on strengthening our Government Commercial capability within Home Affairs
, helping clients improve how they procure, contract, manage suppliers and deliver value.

Our Home Affairs team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with clients across Policing, Defence, Justice, the Home Office and Arms Length Bodies to deliver lasting change for citizens across the UK.

Commercial capability is critical to helping the public sector respond to major challenges, improve value for money, strengthen supplier performance and build more effective operating models.

If you are excited by helping government clients solve complex commercial challenges and deliver meaningful public value, we would love to hear from you.

• Leading government commercial transformation work for Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, helping them improve how they procure, contract, manage suppliers and deliver value.
• You will design and improve commercial operating models, including governance, processes, decision rights, accountabilities, controls and ways of working.
• Advising clients on commercial efficiency opportunities, helping them identify where commercial functions, supplier arrangements or contracts can deliver better value for money.
• You will bring practical knowledge of government commercial regulations, procurement requirements, approval routes and governance into client delivery.
• Working alongside broader Baringa teams to embed commercial expertise into transformation, operating model, digital, data, technology and change programmes.
• You will build trusted relationships with senior government stakeholders, including commercial directors, operational leaders, finance teams, policy teams and delivery partners.
• You will identify and shape new opportunities with Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, contributing to proposals, account development and the growth of Baringa’s government commercial capability.
• You will lead and develop consultants within multi-disciplinary teams, providing direction, coaching and feedback while building Baringa’s internal commercial knowledge and methods.

We are looking for someone with strong experience helping government or public sector organisations improve their commercial functions. This could include procurement, commercial operating models, supplier management, contract management, commercial efficiency and commercial transformation.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience in some of the following:

• You will have experience…