Senior Manager - Home Affairs, Commercial

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. 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.

Our Home Affairs practice is looking for an experienced Senior Manager to join the team. 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.

What you will be doing:

• 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.
• Designing and improving 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.
• Bringing 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.
• Building trusted relationships with senior government stakeholders, including commercial directors, operational leaders, finance teams, policy teams and delivery partners.
• Identifying and shaping new opportunities with Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, contributing to proposals, account development and the growth of Baringa’s government commercial capability.
• Leading and developing consultants within multi-disciplinary teams, providing direction, coaching and feedback while building Baringa’s internal commercial knowledge and methods.

Your skills and experience:

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:

• Experience delivering commercial, procurement or supplier-related transformation work in Home Affairs or wider public sector environments.
• Experience in consulting, within a government commercial function, or through a combination of both.
• Strong understanding of how government commercial functions operate, including procurement regulations, governance, approvals, controls and stakeholder dynamics.
• Experience of working in complex commercial environments, helping programmes to deliver transformation through procurement activity.
• Experience designing, assessing or improving commercial operating models, including structures, roles, processes, decision-making, capability and ways of working.
• Experience identifying and delivering commercial efficiencies, value for money opportunities, supplier performance improvements or contract management improvements.
• Experience working in complex, high-value, multi-stakeholder environments where commercial, operational, policy and delivery priorities need to be balanced.
• Exposure to Home Affairs or adjacent government areas such as policing, law enforcement, justice, defence, national security, the Home Office or central government.
• Experience leading client workstreams or teams, producing high-quality deliverables and turning commercial expertise into practical recommendations.
• Established network and experience leading business development, including shaping opportunities, contributing to proposals or developing client relationships.

What a career at Baringa will give you:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year, plus an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid working policy and flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: 3 days every year to help social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing Fund: Annual People Fund to support and manage wellbeing through activities of choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts.