About this role

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 Sector Business Management team are looking for someone to join them. The Sector Business Management team partners with sector leadership to turn strategic priorities into coordinated action, informed decisions and measurable outcomes.

Sector Business Managers work at the intersection of sector leadership, commercial and operations, strategy, people, client priorities and Corporate Functions, joining the dots across priorities, performance and delivery. The balance of focus will flex by sector, agreed with the Sector Lead and Sector COO, but the core purpose is consistent: creating the insight, alignment and operating rhythm that helps leadership focus time where it matters most.

What you will be doing Strategy, Governance & Leadership Alignment Translate sector leadership objectives into actionable plans, clear priorities, owners and tracked outcomes, supporting delivery of sector strategy, annual planning and priority initiatives. Own the sector leadership governance, decision-making forums and operating rhythm, ensuring agendas, decisions, actions and dependencies are captured, coordinated and progressed.

Support the Sector Lead and Sector COO to focus leadership time on the right strategic priorities, using constructive challenge, clear forward planning and disciplined follow-through. Performance Insight, KPIs & Decision Support Orchestrate people, client and commercial reporting into a connected view of sector performance, identifying risks, opportunities, trends and areas requiring leadership intervention. Support leadership to define, maintain and track KPIs and/or OKRs, creating visibility of progress, accountability and delivery against agreed objectives.

Work with sector and central teams to align local MI and KPI requirements with centrally managed systems and tools, reducing duplication and improving the quality and consistency of insight. People, Client and Commercial Priorities & Operational Excellence Connect the sector’s People, Client and Commercial priorities, helping leadership direct focus to the areas that matter most. Support sector leadership with revenue, margin, utilisation and growth priorities, ensuring key commercial activities are visible, coordinated and followed through.

Identify and manage operational risks, issues and dependencies, escalating where needed and supporting continuous improvement of sector ways of working. Corporate Function Partnering, Communications & Change Delivery Act as a central point of coordination across Corporate Functions and sector teams, creating alignment on priorities and helping deliver integrated solutions to business needs. Develop sector leadership communications, briefings, updates and engagement activity to ensure priorities, decisions and performance messages are clear and consistently understood.

Lead or coordinate sector-wide initiatives, change activity and business improvement programmes, ensuring change is delivered, embedded and adopted. Your skills and experience Experience in business management, operations, strategy, chief of staff, consulting or professional services environments. Strong senior stakeholder management skills, with the ability to create alignment, influence decisions and drive follow-through.

Experience owning or supporting leadership governance, operating rhythms and decision-making forums. Ability to quickly and credibly create connections and establish influence at all level of the organisation Ability to translate strategic priorities into clear plans, owners, milestones and measurable outcomes. Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn people, client and commercial data into clear insight for leadership.

Comfortable working with KPIs, OKRs, MI and performance reporting to identify risks, trends and areas requiring focus. Experience shaping and delivering change, improvement activity or cross-functional initiatives. Clear and confident communicator, able to produce leadership updates, briefings and meeting materials. Proactive, organised and comfortable working with ambiguity, pace and changing priorities. Confident using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; PowerBI experience would be useful but is not essential.

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. <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="33" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"33555

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