Manager - Commodities and Energy Trading Consulting

Manager –Commodities and Energy Trading Consulting

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 22categories 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 have an exciting opportunity as our leading Energy & Commodities Trading Practice are looking to further grow the team in Singapore.

Our Energy and Commodities Trading Team based in Singapore works predominately with tier 1 Energy, Metals/ Mining and Agricultural traders across APAC to help them to deliver strategic, digital, and operational change projects. Our deep content expertise is recognised by our clients and means that they come to us to help them with their most important or challenging projects.

What you will be doing

You will be working on change projects for our Energy & Commodities Trading clients, which will include:

· Designing Trading Operating Model and Processes.

· Trading Systems Strategy & Planning Delivery Roadmaps.

· Selecting Trading Systems, and advising clients on structuring implementation programmes – especially of CTRM/ETRM.

· Designing Risk Management and Control frameworks.

Working as a team in the following types of day-to-day activities on projects:

· Leading and Managing project workstreams including estimation, planning and execution, risks and issues management.

· Leading face-to-face client meetings to understand client requirements and problem statements.

· Direct management and coaching of one or more project resources (Baringa and/or client and/or vendor resources).

· Producing high-quality project deliverables and being able to ensure quality of output for team members.

· Building trusted working relationships with key project stakeholders.

· In addition, you will be expected to engage in internal ‘grow our business’ type activities.

Your skills and experience
Experience:

· Demonstrable transformation consulting experience from either

· Management Consultancy/Big 4 Consulting

· Working as an internal consultant at a Trading Company or Investment Banking

· Energy & Commodities industry experience is desirable but by no means essential. As long as you can demonstrate a genuine interest for working in this sector, we’d love to hear from you!

· You have experience working in a project-based environment and have run projects, or major workstreams on large programmes.

· You possess a good understanding of a typical project lifecycle and systems delivery methodologies.

· You have experience leading small teams – you have ideally had 1+ direct reports.

· 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.

· You are passionate about learning and your personal growth.

· You have excellent communication and presentation skills and a track record of effective team working.

· You possess a problem-solving mindset.

· You have a track record in building effective relationships both internally and externally to contribute to the growth of the business.

· 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.

· Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.

· 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 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 will receive consideration 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.