Senior Consultant - 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 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 to add more experienced Consultants into our lead Energy & Commodities Trading Practice 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 and leading 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 aligned to the energy and commodities industry. This could be from either: Management Consultancy/Big 4 consulting Working as an internal consultant delivering change at a Trading Company or Investment Banking 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. 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