Consultant - Senior Manager - Commodities and Energy Trading Consulting

**Consultant - Senior Manager - Commodities and Energy Trading Consulting**

**About Baringa**:
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

As a Certified B Corporation®, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

**Our Energy & Resources practice are looking for an experienced Management Consultant to join the team.**

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 hav