(Senior) Manager (m/w/d), Commodities & Energy Trading

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 Commodities & Energy Trading practice is growing, and we are looking for (Senior) Managers (m/w/d) to join our team in Düsseldorf or Munich.

As a (Senior) Manager, you will lead or deliver complex management consulting engagements for clients across commodity and energy trading, build trusted relationships with senior decision-makers and help grow our practice. You will combine deep industry expertise with consulting and leadership skills, taking accountability for client outcomes, team performance and commercial development.

We work with leading commodity and energy trading organisations, utilities and large energy consumers. Our work spans strategy, operating model and process design, trading transformation, commercial optimisation, risk and regulation, flexibility integration, and technology delivery.

This is an opportunity to advise influential organisations on strategic priorities and deliver meaningful change across trading operations, commercial performance and new technologies, while playing a visible role in building our German and European business.

What you will be doing

You will take responsibility for delivering complex client engagements, leading project teams, building trusted client relationships and contributing to the growth of our Commodity & Energy Trading practice. The breadth of your responsibilities will reflect your experience and the level at which you join. Areas of work include:

• Client leadership and delivery: Build trusted relationships with executive and senior client stakeholders, translate strategic priorities into practical programmes whilst owning complex engagements or major programmes from shaping through delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes, strong governance and effective management of scope, risk and commercials.

• Leadership & Business Development: Identify and shape opportunities, lead proposals and pitches, develop propositions and account plans, and contribute to business development, revenue growth and capability building. Strengthen our market profile through thought leadership, external networks, sector insight and collaboration across Baringa capabilities and geographies.

Depending on your expertise, your client work may include:

• Operating model & business transformation: Leading trading operating model and business transformation engagements, helping clients optimise governance, processes and organisational structures to deliver sustainable operational change.

• Digital & trading transformation: Delivering data, analytics and AI-enabled transformation initiatives, helping clients improve trading decision-making, operational efficiency and commercial performance.

• Trading systems transformation: Leading ETRM/CTRM transformation engagements, supporting strategy, implementation and optimisation initiatives while aligning business and technology stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.

• Flexibility services & integration: Leading the delivery of flexibility strategy and integration engagements, helping clients unlock value from battery storage, renewable assets and enabling technologies across evolving energy markets.

• Risk and regulatory advisory: Advising clients on risk and regulatory challenges, enhancing risk management frameworks, governance and controls while supporting adaptation to evolving market and regulatory requirements.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for experienced professionals who combine management consulting experience with strong knowledge of commodity and energy markets, ideally within energy and commodity trading or trading transformation. You do not need experience across every commodity or capability listed below. We are looking for deep expertise in at least one relevant area, together with the ability to solve complex client challenges:

• Significant experience delivering or leading complex consulting projects, transformation programmes or strategic initiatives.

• Deep expertise in at least one of Power, LNG, Gas & Clean Fuels, Metals or Oil, together with a strong understanding of trading organisations, markets and value chains.

• Relevant expertise in one or more of the following areas: trading operating models, business process improvement, ETRM/CTRM, data, analytics and AI, flexibility and optimisation, trading strategy and portfolio management, or risk and regulation.

• A track record of building trusted relationships with senior and executive stakeholders and influencing complex decisions.

• Demonstrated experience in business development, including shaping opportunities, leading proposals or pitches, and converting client needs into valuable work.

• Experience leading, coaching and developing project teams.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.

• Professional proficiency in German and English.

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 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.

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