Energy Networks - Manager

About our Energy & Resources practice:

Baringa’s Energy & Resources Sector partners with clients across the energy value chain to navigate uncertainty and deliver one of the world’s most critical challenges: the energy transition. Combining deep sector expertise with commercial and regulatory insight, we support organisations to decarbonise, secure energy supply, and unlock value from new technologies and markets. We’re proud to be recognised externally, with Baringa ranked Gold in ‘Energy, Utilities and Environment’ in the Financial Times 2026 rankings, a position we have held every year since 2020 as well as being rated among the world’s best management consultancies by Forbes.

Our Energy Networks practice are looking for Consultants at Manager level, to join the team.

Our UK Energy Networks team works with every electricity and gas network in the UK, supporting clients across the full lifecycle – from policy and regulation through to strategy, operating model, and delivery. As the sector accelerates investment to enable net zero, networks are shifting from primarily managing assets to building and modernising them at pace, while also digitising operations and adopting AI in a business-case-led way. We help clients strengthen capital delivery and asset management, mobilise field forces, and deliver technology-enabled transformation that improves resilience, performance and consumer value. Our UK activities have quadrupled in the last 5 years, to the point where we are now recognised as a leading consultancy on all things energy networks for network utilities, policy makers and investors. We need to continue to grow our ever-expanding team of energy network experts – with a particular focus on transformation of network operations from asset management and capital delivery to digitalisation and operational transformation that it enables.

What you will be doing

• You will deliver client engagements across networks capital delivery and asset management, helping clients plan, build and operate critical infrastructure.
• You will shape and deliver operating model improvements across people, process and technology, including governance, ways of working and performance management.
• You will help clients deploy leading-edge digital and AI solutions in a pragmatic, business-case-led way (e.g., digitising field operations, improving asset data, and enabling better decision-making).
• You will work with client and partner teams to mobilise delivery – from defining the problem to landing change on the ground with engineers and field forces.
• You will contribute to bids, proposals and client relationship development, bringing insight from our UK-wide network client portfolio.

Your skills and experience

• You will have consulting and/or industry experience in utilities, networks, water or adjacent asset-intensive sectors (e.g., oil and gas), with a strong understanding of how regulated businesses operate.
• You’ve built credibility in one or more of: capital delivery (portfolio/programme/project delivery), asset management, field operations, or technology-enabled operational transformation.
• You’ve supported digital, data, and/or AI-driven change and can translate technology opportunities into pragmatic value cases, target operating models and delivery roadmaps.
• You bring a collaborative, high-performing team ethos and a genuine passion for the energy transition and delivering outcomes for clients.
• You are comfortable with travel to client sites as needed (typically 1–2 days per week, varying by project) and value hybrid working with purposeful time together.

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 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.