Senior Manager- Home Affairs

About Baringa 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.

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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.

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Our Home Affairs practice are looking for an experienced Senior Managers to join the team. We collaborate across the criminal justice system and champion the work of Arm’s Length Bodies, helping our clients realise diverse ambitions and better serve citizens throughout the UK. Our Home Affairs team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with Policing, Defence, Justice and Home Office clients to deliver lasting change.

The UK public sector faces major challenges over the coming years, alongside significant opportunities to deliver against the government’s missions. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve complex problems and improve outcomes for citizens, we would love to hear from you. We support some of the public sector’s most important programmes across Whitehall and the wider public sector, using our skills in Strategy and Business Cases, Project Delivery, Operational Delivery, DDaT and Government Commercial.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Manager in our Home Affairs team, you will lead the delivery of complex, high-impact work across policing, justice, defence and the Home Office. You will play a pivotal role shaping solutions, leading teams, and working closely with senior client stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes across critical government priorities. You will typically lead work streams or engagements, combining structured problem-solving with hands-on delivery.

Alongside delivering impact for clients, you will contribute to developing our people, strengthening client relationships, and supporting the growth of our Home Affairs practice.

You will lead the design and delivery of complex transformation and improvement work, typically owning work streams or defined engagements. This may include:
Leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformation programmes that improve citizen outcomes, public safety and operational resilience Shaping and delivering business cases, funding strategies and investment decisions for major public sector initiatives Designing operating models, service blueprints and organisational solutions for new or transforming government functions Leading the assessment and implementation of policy, operational and service changes across policing, justice, defence and Home Office environments Establishing effective programme governance, performance tracking and risk management to ensure delivery confidence and measurable outcomes Building strong, trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a day-to-day delivery lead and advisor Leading teams and clients through complex problem-solving, using data, digital and analytics (including…