Manager, Insurance at Baringa Partners in Illinois

About the opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Manager to join our growing US consulting team. You will lead teams delivering complex strategic, operational and transformational engagements, working closely with senior clients to define problems, align stakeholders, and turn recommendations into measurable outcomes. You will also play an active role in developing our people, shaping propositions, and growing trusted client relationships.

What you will be doing

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of complex client engagements, with accountability for scope, workplan, quality, risks, team performance and client outcomes.

• Shape approaches to ambiguous business problems and guide teams through analysis, solution design, and implementation planning.

• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, facilitate decision-making, and communicate clear, evidence-based recommendations.

• Lead multidisciplinary teams, creating clarity and momentum while maintaining high standards of delivery and an inclusive team environment.

• Coach and develop consultants, providing timely feedback, stretch opportunities and support for their career growth.

• Support implementation so that recommendations translate into practical, sustainable change and tangible client benefits.

• Contribute to business development through proposals, account development, market insight, and the creation of reusable capabilities and assets.

• Collaborate across Baringa to bring the right sector, capability and technology expertise to each client challenge.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for an experienced Manager with typically 5+ years of relevant consulting experience. The strongest candidates will have led project teams, managed complex workstreams or engagements, built trusted senior client relationships, and contributed to business development.

• A strong foundation in management or strategy consulting, with experience delivering complex client work.

• Strong analytical, commercial, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to structure ambiguous issues and turn analysis into clear recommendations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise, compelling client materials.

• Confidence working with senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams in dynamic, client-facing environments.

• Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach to solving problems.

• A commitment to developing others and contributing positively to an inclusive, people-first culture.

• Willingness to travel to client sites as engagement needs require.

• A track record of managing teams and maintaining delivery quality across complex engagements.

• Experience developing senior stakeholder relationships and contributing to proposals or account growth.

• Experience in one or more of Baringa’s sectors or capabilities, with the ability to connect sector context to broader strategic and transformational issues.

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

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 recognize the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance at no cost for employee-only coverage. These benefits utilize comprehensive networks to offer coverage throughout the United States
• Company-paid group term life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and travel insurance
• Participation in our 401k retirement plan; we contribute 3% of your annual base salary and match up to an additional 2% if you contribute to the plan
• Ability to set aside pre-tax dollars toward commuter benefits, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, and Dep-care FSA
• Baringa People Fund – an opportunity for every employee to manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice outside of work
• Paid Parental leave of 16 weeks for primary caregivers
• Opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge through a range of learning courses and resources
• Five weeks’ annual leave, with an additional two-week recharge after five years

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 organizations 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.