Business Manager- Corporate

Posted on: 06/10/2025 - Application Deadline: -

About Baringa:
We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Corporate function are looking for an experienced Business Manager to join them.

Our Corporate function, known internally as the Baringa Enablement (BE) comprises of six functions (People, Finance, Marketing, Technology & Cyber, Legal & Business Integrity, Consulting Services & Operations) which exist to support the delivery of Baringa's strategy and growth ambitions. Our teams support and enable Baringa to operate as a highly effective, growing business as well as delivering a non-stop programme of improvements and change that range from the tiny to the multi-year, major investment.

Alongside our other Sector Business Managers who partner with specific consulting sectors, this role will partner with BE in a similar way. The role will focus on supporting the COO and wider BE LT in developing and then assuring the delivery of the strategic plan for BE. This will include focussing on a range of cross department project and change initiatives, tracking, assuring, balancing/unblocking as required, and occasionally delivering directly. There will also be a need to support the COO in coordinating some cross department operational activities, processes and set piece events.

This role will have a dual reporting line into the Sector Business Management (official line management) team and the COO (operational direction), enabling the role holder to be part of our Business Management team, providing great insight into how a consulting business like Baringa works as well as the opportunity to benefit from the relationships, knowledge and support that group will bring, while also being focussed on the BE function.

What you will be doing

Business Strategy and Planning:

• Facilitating successful delivery of our strategy through effective leadership engagement, insights, and reporting.
• Supporting the COO and BE leadership team in their regular business planning cycles and help enhance connectivity, ownership, and dependencies across BE teams by improving processes, communication, and ways of working.
• Through collaboration and prioritisation, driving outcomes from our cross-function activities to ensure we achieve the results needed by the business.
• Sharing strategy and priorities with the rest of the SBM team and out into other parts of BE.
• Supporting the COO to prepare for major events such as; strategy sessions, shareholder days and internal department facing events.
• Helping the COO stay ahead of department wide initiatives, including one off strategy development and more regular business reviews.

Project Management

• Supporting the COO and leadership team in driving forward strategically important projects, helping to; organise, track, report and assure timelines for delivery.
• Supporting the COO and relevant functional experts on large scale or multi-team initiatives, acting as a key interface between BE teams on project alignment, communication plans and project timelines.

Your skills and experience

• Experience in shaping, mobilising, and executing change programs across multiple stakeholders.
• Expert relationship building and network creation.
• Ability to work across all levels with impact, effectiveness, and influence.
• Ability to research, analyse and present information with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proactive in pre-empting, identifying, resolving, and escalating issues.
• Numerate and comfortable working with spreadsheets and financial trackers etc.
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)

What a career at Baringa will give you

At Baringa, we are committed to being a People First company, where 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, including:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year.
• 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.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 days every year to help social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing.
• 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.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration 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.