Senior Manager, Capabilities, Organisation Effectiveness & Agility 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.

Our Organisational Effectiveness & Agility practice is looking for an experienced Manager or Senior Manager with experience in Product & Platform model transformation. We help organisations rethink how they organise, govern, fund and deliver products and platforms so they can respond faster to changing customer needs, make better investment decisions and get greater value from technology.

What you will be doing

As a Manager or Senior Manager, you will play a key role in contributing to and leading workstreams in the design and implementation of Product & Platform operating models, working with business, digital and technology stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into practical changes to organisation, governance, funding, capabilities and ways of working.

You’ll help clients with:

• Product and Platform Centric Operating Model Design: Helping clients design and implement Product and Platform centric operating models, including product and platform structures, taxonomies, roles, accountabilities, decision rights, governance and persistent multidisciplinary teams.
• Portfolio Governance, Funding & Value: Redesigning governance, investment and prioritisation approaches to better connect strategy, demand, capacity and funding to products and platforms, supported by clear outcomes, OKRs and measures of value.
• Ways of Working & Delivery Optimisation: Helping organisations improve how work flows from demand and discovery through delivery and operation, strengthening agile ways of working, planning, prioritisation, team collaboration and the interaction between business, Digital and Technology.
• Workforce, Capability & Adoption: Helping clients define the roles, skills, capacity and capability required to operate Product and Platform centric operating models effectively, while supporting leaders and teams to adopt new accountabilities and ways of working.
• Transition & Implementation: Translating Product and Platform centric operating model designs into practical roadmaps, pilots and implementation plans, helping clients sequence changes across organisation, governance, workforce, funding and delivery and embed the model sustainably.

Your skills and experience

We’re looking for experienced consultants and industry practitioners with a strong foundation in Product & Platform model transformation. You’ll likely bring:

• Strong experience designing and implementing Product & Platform models in large, complex organisations, including organisational structures, roles, accountabilities, decision rights and governance.
• A strong understanding of product-centric transformation, including the move from project-based delivery to persistent multidisciplinary teams, and how Product Management works with Engineering, Architecture, Data, Design, Operations and other technology disciplines.
• Experience shaping the wider enablers of Product & Platform models, including portfolio governance, investment and funding, demand and capacity management, workforce allocation and outcome-based performance measures.
• Practical experience of modern delivery approaches, with familiarity across Agile at Scale, OKRs, Lean Portfolio Management, and Team Topologies, and the ability to apply some of these pragmatically rather than prescriptively.
• Strong consulting and leadership skills, including hypothesis-driven problem solving, working in multidisciplinary teams, developing others, and contributing to proposals and new business opportunities.

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.

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.