Senior Manager – Advisory (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. ## **We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our team in Madrid and help grow our power market advisory services in Iberia**. We are looking for an experienced energy specialist to help lead and grow our advisory business across Spain and Portugal. This is an opportunity to become a recognised voice in the Iberian energy market, build trusted relationships with senior industry leaders, and lead high-impact work for utilities, developers, investors, lenders and other participants across the energy value chain. You will shape our Iberian market proposition, originate and lead complex advisory engagements, strengthen our market insight and modelling capabilities, and help build a high-performing team in Madrid. The role suits someone who combines deep power-market expertise with commercial judgement, senior client credibility and the ambition to grow a distinctive advisory business. If you want to be part of an entrepreneurial environment and help make a difference to our business, your opportunity is now. ## What you will be doing - **Iberian market presence:** Act as a visible expert on Spanish and Portuguese power markets, covering market design, regulation, network access, balancing and ancillary services, and the commercial structures that follow from them. Represent Baringa in client forums, industry events and thought leadership. - **Market advisory leadership:** Lead the delivery of power market and commercial advisory engagements in Iberia, including power market outlook, revenue analysis and projections for renewables and batteries, Route-to-Market advice (e.g. PPA and offtake support), and transaction advise. - **Client relationships:** Build and nurture senior relationships across utilities, IPPs, developers, funds and lenders, and translate them into high-impact commercial propositions. - **Business development:**Drive the growth of our client base in the region, from building brand presence through to shaping opportunities and writing winning proposals. - **IP and capability:**Curate and develop the market models, scenarios, datasets and IP that enable us to give market leading investment and strategic advice in Iberia. - **Team Leadership:** Invest in the junior team, identify and fill capability gaps and recruitment needs, and build a high-performing Madrid team. - **Support practice growth:** Contribute to proposals, thought leadership, market engagement and the origination of new opportunities across Iberia. - **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 experienced power market specialists focused on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The ideal candidate will have experience in several of the following areas: - **Professional experience:** 8+ years' relevant professional experience in the energy sector, gained in market or commercial advisory, consulting, an energy company, a developer or IPP, a trading or analytics function, or an investor or lender. We are interested in the depth and relevance of your experience, not a single career path. - **Deep market expertise:**A fundamental understanding of power market fundamentals, market design and regulation, with strong awareness of key players, projects and drivers globally and particularly in Iberia. - **Commercial and valuation experience:** A track record advising on asset and portfolio valuation, routes to market, PPAs and offtake, and value creation across the asset life cycle for renewable, flexible and clean infrastructure assets. - **Modelling and analytics:** Comfort with fundamentals-based market modelling and revenue analysis, and the ability to challenge, interpret and communicate model outputs credibly to senior audiences, and participate in internal modelling methodology working groups. - **Relationship building:** Experience building trusted client relationships, operate effectively in client-facing environments and engage confidently with senior stakeholders. - **Skills and competencies:**Experience in project management, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, business acumen, analytical capability, and excellence in people management and career development. - **Communication:** Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide clear recommendations on key value drivers, risks and upsides. - **Ways of working:**Flexibility and the ability to manage different priorities within a fast-paced environment. - **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 em