Energy Retail - Consultant / Senior Consultant (Hiring Immediately) in London

About Baringa

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector. You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

We are looking for Consultants and Senior Consultants to join our thriving and award-winning retail energy practice. Our Energy practice is a dynamic, award-winning team of experts dedicated to tackling the Utilities sector's most pressing and public facing challenges, including driving the transition to Net Zero.

Our clients across the sector rely on our deep industry experience, knowledge and insight coupled with a hands-on, pragmatic delivery approach to solve their challenges. We are excited to be in a position to grow our Retail Energy team, supporting clients with market reform, customer operations, and net zero strategies in both domestic, SME and B2B.

What you will be doing:

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of this sector alongside our existing team of market specialists where you will be able to broaden your skillset and expertise within retail energy. You will also have the opportunity to work with a range of clients across the sector, including energy and water retailers and network operators to government bodies and regulators.

We’re looking for talented, enthusiastic experts with experience working in the utilities sector. You may have experience working within industry, consulting, or both, but most importantly have a passion for delivering change and transformation within energy retail. You will be a trusted advisor for our clients helping them identify, assess, design and implement solutions to their most complex business challenges. You will be a key part of our project teams responsible for scoping and delivering complex multi-faceted change programmes under challenging market conditions. You will work frequently in industry within high visibility areas, seamlessly working in blended project teams of Baringa and client personnel. You will be willing to work across the different clients in the sector.

Your skills and experience:

• You will have a minimum of 3 years working within a utilities retailer, including project management and delivery experience.
• You will have the ability to develop and maintain deep, trusted relationships with clients and colleagues across the sector.
• You will have excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-specialists.

We are particularly looking for people with experience or specialism in the following key area across the retail sector:

• Customer Affordability: We are passionate about building a market that works for customers. We need commercially-minded people that understand how complex processes work across customer metering, billing and debt management from a systems, process and regulatory perspective to enable improvements for our clients and their customers especially those in Vulnerability.
• Field Services: We are helping our clients build workforces of the future that serve both the customer and network operators needs as efficiently and effectively as possible. Whether that be from installing a meter in a customer's home or maintenance and repairing of network assets. We are looking for people that have experience in field service transformation to enable performance improvement and Net zero delivery across energy and water industries.
• Data/Digital: We are excited to be at the forefront of emerging technologies that support our clients to deliver the right solutions into their business to drive both efficiency and performance. We are looking for individuals who have experience in delivering digital & data platforms & solutions including AI in utilities.

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 recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. 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 know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so 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.