Manager, Central Government

Job description

### 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. ## We are looking for an experienced Manager to join our Central Government team Following the continued growth of Baringa, we are excited to be building our Central Government practice. We are looking for experienced managers who will thrive with us as we grow. We work on the Government’s most complex changes across Central Government departments, helping departments deliver complex policy, operational and transformation priorities and better service citizens throughout the UK. Our Central Government team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with HMRC, DWP, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and many other central Whitehall departments. The UK public sector faces major challenges over the coming years, as well as opportunities to drive the recently laid out missions. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve their challenges, then we could be what you are looking for. We are supporting 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 Manager in our Central Government team, you will typically lead workstreams and teams on complex client engagements. While no two projects are the same, examples of the work you might be involved in include: **Leading project delivery** - Leading Baringa and blended client teams, setting direction and enabling high performance - Shaping engagement objectives, deliverables and success measures with clients - Translating complex challenges into clear delivery plans, workstreams and priorities - Managing stakeholders, resolving ambiguity and helping clients navigate delivery challenges - Ensuring the quality, coherence and impact of team outputs **Working with senior government stakeholders** - Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders - Leading governance discussions and presenting recommendations to support decision-making - Helping clients understand strategic, political, fiscal and operational implications of different options - Identifying opportunities to create additional value beyond immediate project objectives **Delivering transformation and change** Depending on the engagement, you may help clients to: - Develop business cases, funding submissions and options appraisals - Analyse the impact of policy, operational or service changes - Design operating models, services and delivery approaches - Deliver large-scale transformation programmes - Improve operational performance and resilience - Lead commercial and procurement activities - Deliver digital, data, technology and AI-enabled change **Developing people and teams** - Creating inclusive and collaborative team environments - Coaching, mentoring and developing colleagues - Providing constructive feedback and managing performance, wellbeing and capacity - Acting as an Advisor and supporting career development where applicable - Contributing to the development of our Central Government practice through knowledge sharing and communities of practice **Growing our business** - Managing engagement commercials including forecasting, resourcing, billing and scope management - Leading or contributing to proposals, presentations and commercial models - Developing thought leadership and propositions aligned to government priorities - Building internal and external networks that support account and practice growth ### Your skills and experience - Experience leading projects for government or public sector organisations, ideally within a professional services / civil service / consulting environment - A strong interest in working with Central Government departments (e.g. HMRC, DWP, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, DBT, DfE, MHCLG)