Manager - Strategy & Transactions | Iberia

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### 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 Markets & Transactions practice is looking for an experienced Manager to join our growing Madrid team, leading transaction and investment engagements across renewable energy, battery storage, biomethane, e-fuels and other low-carbon infrastructure. You will be joining our dynamic and growing Advisory practice. We work with a range of clients from across the energy value chain, covering utilities, IPPs and developers, integrated energy companies, institutional investors and lenders, to help them successfully navigate the energy transition. Baringa is differentiated through its ability to leverage a fundamental understanding of the market, technical, commercial and regulatory drivers of value and risk to help clients develop projects, deploy capital, or launch new products and services that help decarbonise our economy. This is an opportunity to help grow our Strategy & Transactions offering in Iberia while advising leading energy companies, developers, infrastructure owners, investors and lenders. You will lead high-impact client work, shape our regional proposition and contribute to the development of a growing Madrid-based team. Our remit covers the whole Clean Infrastructure spectrum: renewable generation, storage and flexibility, clean molecules and low carbon infrastructure. Leveraging our industry-leading market capabilities and IP, and supported by senior energy market experts, you will support clients on market entry, investment appraisal and growth strategy, portfolio value creation, diversification and capability development. ### What you will be doing As a Manager, you will: - **Lead strategy advisory workstreams:** Leveraging our distinctive Power & Renewables expertise and proprietary insights, take day-to-day ownership of engagements spanning corporate strategy, transaction strategy, portfolio value creation, investment and development strategy, commercial optimisation, route-to-market and market access. - **Support transactions:** Run buy side and sell side commercial due diligence, vendor commercial due diligence and bid support, working closely with corporate, infrastructure and private equity clients. - **Lead investment appraisal and valuation work:** Lead investment appraisal and valuation work: Oversee business plan reviews, valuation analysis, financial modelling, financing and contracting structures, and clearly articulate value drivers, risks and opportunities. - **Develop and manage client relationships:** Help manage and deepen existing client relationships while building new ones, and deliver high-impact strategic and commercial propositions. - **Develop the team:** Coach and develop junior colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration, support, high performance and continuous improvement. - **Support business development:** Contribute to proposals, brand building and origination of new opportunities in the region. - **Deliver high-quality engagements:** Ensure excellence in project delivery and client management, including quality assurance, financial management and commercial oversight**.** ### Your skills and experience We are looking for candidates with experience in several of the following areas: - **Professional experience:** 5+ years of professional experience in the power and energy sector, gained as a strategy consultant or M&A advisor, in corporate development or M&A within an energy company, or as a principal investor in a private equity or infrastructure fund. - **Power sector understanding:** A fundamental understanding of the power sector and its key value drivers, spanning conventional and renewable generation, storage and flexibility, networks, retail and supply, and low carbon infrastructure. Awareness of key players, projects and market drivers globally and particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. - **Strategy and transactions:** Experience supporting growth strategy, market entry, commercial due diligence and other transaction-related engagements within the power and energy sector. - **Corporate finance toolkit:** Strong valuation and financial modelling skills, comfort with business plans and financing structures, and experience assessing value creation across the asset life cycle. - **Commercial structures:** Experience assessing routes to market for power generation and flexible assets, and designing business models in energy markets. - **Project leadership:** Experience leading projects or workstreams, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing delivery, timelines and budgets. - **Analytical excellence:**Strong analytical skills with the capability to develop hypotheses and draw conclusions within tight timeframes. - **Client relationship management:** Ability to build trusted client relationships, operate effectively in client-facing environments and engage confidently with senior stakeholders. - **Languages:** Professional fluency in Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages. ## 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 days every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us. - Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. 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. [Click here](https://www.baringa.com/en/impact/awards/) to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. ### 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 report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. 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. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have. ### 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. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further. ### Baringa Privacy Notices **For UK & EU** Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our [UK Recruitment Privacy Notice /](https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-004-ukrpn---uk-recruitment-privacy-notice-pdf.pdf) [EU Recruitment Privacy Notice](https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-005-eurpn---eu-recruitment-privacy-notice-pdf.pdf), 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. For more information, please contact us at [privacy@baringa.com](mailto:privacy@baringa.com) **For the USA** Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our [Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC)](https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-007-nerpn-amer--apac-recruitment-privacy-notice-word.pdf), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or corre