Senior Consultant-Manager – Technology, Data & Digital Transformation in Energy and Commodities Trading

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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. ### We are growing our Energy & Commodities Trading Practice in Singapore and are looking for people excited by technology, data, digital innovation and AI to help shape the future of trading across Asia. Our Singapore based team works with leading energy, metals, mining and agricultural trading organisations across Asia to deliver strategic, digital, data and operational transformation. We help clients redesign how their trading businesses operate, modernise technology landscapes, improve decision-making through better data, and deliver complex change. We are looking for individuals who are excited by technology-enabled transformation, data-driven problem solving and the rapidly evolving AI landscape. ### What you will be doing You will be working on transformation projects for our Energy & Commodities Trading clients, with a strong focus on technology strategy, data-led change, digital architecture and emerging AI applications. This will include: - Designing trading operating models and business workflows, with technology and data embedded at the core. - Shaping technology strategy, platform roadmaps and transformation plans for trading businesses - Supporting clients to strengthen data foundations, improve reporting and analytics, and enable better decision-making across front, middle and back-office trading functions. - Selecting and implementing trading systems, and advising clients on structuring implementation programmes - especially of CTRM/ETRM - Identifying practical applications for automation and AI to improve trading processes, controls and user workflows - Designing risk management and control frameworks that support resilient, scalable and technology-enabled trading operations. Working as a team in the following types of day-to-day activities on projects: - Leading project workstreams, including planning, managing actions, tracking progress, and proactively identifying risks and issues. - Facilitating client meetings to understand requirements, shape recommendations, manage stakeholder input, and drive effective problem solving. - Working closely with colleagues, clients and vendors as part of a broader project team, while coaching junior team members and supporting high quality delivery. - Producing high quality project deliverables, reviewing outputs from others, and ensuring work is clear, commercially relevant and client-ready. - Building trusted working relationships with key client stakeholders, including confidently managing day-to-day interactions. - Contributing to internal practice growth, including proposition development, business development support, knowledge sharing and team initiatives. ### Your skills and experience **Experience:** - Hold some demonstrable consulting or transformation experience gained in management consulting or an internal transformation role within a trading company, financial institution or similarly complex organisation. - Experience supporting across a mix of technology-enabled change, digital transformation, data strategy, systems delivery, operating model design, process improvement, or related AI-enabled business transformation. - You possess a good understanding of project lifecycle management and systems delivery methodologies. - You have worked previously in an internal or external client-facing project role. **Skills:** - You are curious, self-driven and comfortable navigating a steep learning curve in a specialist domain. - You are passionate about learning, personal growth and developing sector knowledge alongside your consulting or technical skillset. - You have excellent communication and presentation skills and a track record of effective team working. - You possess a structured problem-solving mindset and enjoy using technology, data, analytics and AI to tackle complex business challenges in fast-moving trading environments. - You can work in a start-up culture, being able to deal with uncertainty, have flexibility, and provide support across a range of different internal initiatives in conjunction with primary client project. ## 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. - 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 correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact [privacy@baringa.com](mailto:privacy@baringa.com) **For Australia & Singapore** Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our [Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC)](https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-007-nerpn-amer--apac-recruitment-privacy-notice-word.pdf), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [privacy@baringa.com](mailto:privacy@baringa.com)