Consultant or Senior Consultant - Telco, Media and Technology

Consultant or Senior Consultant - Telco, Media and Technology

London, United Kingdom

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 Telco, Media & Technology practice are looking for an experienced Consultants or Senior Consultants to join the team.

We are looking for high performing consulting professionals who can combine strong Telco, Media and Technology consulting experience with the entrepreneurial spirit and deep industry expertise needed to provide outstanding work to our clients. We work across global telco providers, publishers, broadcasters, music rights companies, media agencies, technology companies, data centres, and many other organisations.

What you will be doing

Typical engagements include:

• Helping clientsidentifyand explore where AI and automation could add value,shapingpractical use cases and supporting early adoption
• Designing and delivering business and transformation programmes, incorporating digital tools, analytics and automation where appropriate
• Supporting organisations to monetise digital products, content and platforms, using data and insight to inform growth decisions
• Improving customer, partner and user experience across end to end journeys through digital and data enabled change
• Designing future operati ng models, considering how peo ple, processes and technology (including automation) work together
• Supporting organisations through business model evolution (e.g. telco to techc o , cont ent to platform, product to ecosystem)
• Advising on M&A, integration and carve outs, supporting value creation through better insight, executio n discipline and change deli very.
• Working across adjac ent TMT areas such as media, platforms, data centres, hyperscalers and digital infrastructure

Your skills and experience

We recruit people at all levels based on merit. While our team members typically have excellent academic achievements, we are looking for 'street smart' as well as 'book smart'. Don't worry about 'ticking boxes' if you've got the consulting skills and knowledge we are after, we would love to talk to you.

We are interested in consultants with experience across parts of the Telecommunications,Mediaand Technology (TMT) ecosystem, who combine strong consulting fundamentals with curiosity about how digital, data,automationand AI are shaping organisations.

This may include experience or interest in areas such as:

• TMT value chains, including telecoms, media, platforms, content, data and technology enabled businesses
• Digital products and services, platform and ecosystem business models
• The application of data, automation and AI to commercial performance, operations or customer experience
• Data and MI environments, including dashboards, performance management and decision support
• Commercial and growth models, including pric ing, monetisation and partnerships
• Awareness of emerging technologies influencing TMT, such as cloud, GenAI, platforms and digital infrastructure

Alongside this knowledge, we look for strong consulting skills and a delivery mindset, including:

• Experience supporting strategy and transformation delivery within TMT organisations
• Exposure and experience of delivering end to end change, not just stand alone analysis
• Comfort working alongside digital tools, data and AI, without needing to be a technical specialist
• Strong data literacy - able to interpret insights and translate them into clear recommendations
• Clear communication skills, particularly when explaining digital or AI related concepts to non technical stakeholders
• A strong focus on outcomes, execution and impact

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.

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.