Business Manager in London

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. 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.

Our Sector Business Management team are looking for someone to join them. 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.

What you will be doing

• 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 informs recruitment planning.

Your skills and experience

• Experience of developing or streamlining processes and tools to support business expansion.
• Experience and knowledge of using Microsoft Excel and ability to interpret, enhance and optimise MI reporting.
• Experience in shaping, mobilising and executing change programs across multiple stakeholders.
• Expert relationship building and network creation.
• Ability to research, analyse and present information with a high level of attention to detail.
• Numerate and comfortable working with spreadsheets and financial trackers etc.
• Proficient in PowerBI or ability to learn.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First. Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: All our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

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.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.

Using business as a force for good.

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.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed.

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Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data.