Senior Manager, Operating Model & Organisation Design

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 Organisational, Effectiveness & Agility practice are looking for an experienced Senior Manager to join the team.

We are experts who put people first to transform organisations through future-ready operating models, agile ways of working, and enterprise transformation. We help our clients build more adaptive, effective, and sustainable organisations by shaping how people, processes, and emerging technologies come together. This expertise spans multiple industries, reflecting our current cross-industry approach. However, we are now prioritising deep industry specialisation, particularly in Financial Services and Consumer Products & Retail. Our experts partner closely with our industry-focused colleagues and go to market together.

What you will be doing

Our roles are about helping clients redesign and deliver the organisations of the future by shaping operating models that enable agility, human-centred design and efficiency. As a Senior Manager, you will play a leading role in setting direction, shaping client engagements and driving enterprise-wide transformation, translating strategic priorities into practical structures, processes, and governance frameworks that drive sustainable impact.

• Enterprise-wide Operating Model Design and Implementation: Leading the definition and implementation of target operating models, organisational structures and governance frameworks that align to strategic priorities and enable agility across complex organisations.
• Cost & Productivity Optimisation: Shaping and leading large-scale redesign of operating models to improve efficiency, reduce costs and unlock long-term value through streamlines processes and resource allocation.
• Integration & Capability Build: Leading complex organisational transitions, such as mergers, acquisitions or new business units, by designing and embedding capabilities that enable smooth integration and operational effectiveness.
• Ways of Working & Agility: Setting direction for how organisations evolve processes, decision-making, and funding models to foster collaboration, innovation and responsiveness at scale.
• AI-Enabled Operating Model Transformation: Designing future-fit organisations that can embed and scale AI - with the right structures, accountabilities, and cultural foundations
• Data-Driven Insights: Overseeing the application of analytics and diagnostic tools (e.g. OrgVue) to assess spans, layers, costs, and workforce performance, translating insights into strategic recommendations and executive decisions.
• Client Leadership & Business Development: Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, shaping and selling transformation programmes, and contributing to the growth of our operating model and transformation offering.
• Team Leadership & Capability Development: Leading and developing high-performing teams, coaching others to build capability and contributing to the growth of our practice.

Some examples of the work you’ll do:

• Leading the design of future-ready operating models that align with strategic priorities, balancing efficiency, agility, and innovation

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on structural choices, clarifying trade-offs between centralisation, decentralisation, and hybrid models to enable effective decision-making.

• Leading end-to-end operating model transformations, including governance design and implementation at scale.

• Overseeing organisational transitions, ensuring structures and ways of working enable continuity, growth and long-term success

• Leading cost and productivity optimisation programmes through redesign of processes, spans and layers and resource allocation without compromising agility

• Advising clients on how to sustainably reduce cost or headcount while unlocking creativity and strategic focus

• Embedding lasting capability by designing change approaches that stick, with a focus on leadership alignment, behavioural change, and practical tooling

• Building senior client relationships, identifying opportunities and shaping new work aligned to client priorities

Your skills and experience

We’re looking for exceptional consultants with deep expertise in enterprise transformation – particularly in reshaping how organisations are structured, governed and delivered.

You’ll likely bring:

• Proven consulting experience in enterprise transformation, including operating model design and delivery
• Deep expertise in organisational design and governance, with the ability to shape structures, processes, and decision-making frameworks
• Strong track record of advising senior stakeholders in large, complex organisations navigating disruption, emerging technology adoption and strategic change
• Strong knowledge of transformation levers such as cost optimisation, capability building and integration to enable sustainable organisational change
• Experience shaping and selling large-scale transformation programmes, with a clear contribution to business development and growth
• A clear perspective on how AI is transforming work - from operating models and decision-making to workforce structure and leadership roles
• Familiarity with delivery tools (e.g. Orgvue, Jira, Planview) to support execution at pace
• Familiarity with delivery methodologies (eg. Agile at Scale, OKRs) to support approach and application
• Strong leadership capability, with experience leading teams, developing others and building followership
• Confidence coaching senior leaders through ambiguity, helping them adapt to new ways of working and organisational models
• A hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving - you ask the right questions, simplify the complex, and stay focused on impact
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, client-facing role with shifting priorities and multiple workstreams

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.

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.

Baringa Privacy Notices

For UK & EU

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice /EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com

For the USA

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