Senior Manager

Senior Manager / Director - Commercial Strategic Advisory - Energy Industry

Senior Manager / Director - Commercial Strategic Advisory - Energy Industry

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.

As a Certified B Corporation, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.

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 Australian Energy and Resources practice are looking for an experienced energy-industry focused Strategic or Commercial Advisor to join the team.

Our clients face the corporate world’s biggest challenges while delivering society’s most crucial project – the energy transition. We help them shape their decarbonisation strategy, secure their energy needs, invest in future energy technologies, capture market opportunities, and manage risks to reach society’s biggest goal. We are looking for a broad set of skills in the energy, carbon, and climate space, and recognise that these may not all be found within one candidate.

Senior Manager / Director - Commercial Strategic Advisory - Energy Industry

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.

As a Certified B Corporation, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.

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 Australian Energy and Resources practice are looking for an experienced energy-industry focused Strategic or Commercial Advisor to join the team.

Our clients face the corporate world’s biggest challenges while delivering society’s most crucial project – the energy transition. We help them shape their decarbonisation strategy, secure their energy needs, invest in future energy technologies, capture market opportunities, and manage risks to reach society’s biggest goal. We are looking for a broad set of skills in the energy, carbon, and climate space, and recognise that these may not all be found within one candidate.

What you will be doing

• You will be working at the forefront of the energy sector, leading teams of consultants to have an impact on the market and shape the energy transition in Australia and beyond.
• You will be trusted by senior stakeholders in the foremost energy companies, policymakers, regulators, investors, developers, and industry players across the energy supply chain.
• You will lead consulting engagements – using your expertise to scope projects, manage junior team members and build client relationships to have a lasting impact on the teams you work with.
• You will be part of a Senior Management Team, and be responsible for business development, shaping the business strategy, and maintaining a market-leading culture.
• Some recent examples of projects include:

Energy Transition

• Working with developers of large infrastructure and green fuel projects to commercially-optimise the design, quantify demand for new products and supply chain constraints.
• Supporting a new entrant retailer from strategy and business plan through to product development, business set-up and trading system selection.
• Working with market participants and regulators to quantify the value of behind-the-meter generation and define the products and business models which allow market participants to realise this value.
• Defining investment portfolio strategy and offtake options for large-scale renewable and storage projects, from PPAs to pricing flexible contract structures, assessing the impact of contracting options on gross margins and risk.
• Working with Distribution Network Operators to define strategic and operational model changes required with the increasing penetration of distributed renewable energy, feeding into market design and business implications.

Decarbonisation

• Developing decarbonisation strategies for large corporate consumers – including renewable energy contracting, carbon offsetting strategies, new technology appraisal and an actionable implementation roadmap.
• Helping businesses better measure, understand and manage their Scope 1-3 emissions under different future climate scenarios, to then develop appropriate decarbonisation strategies.
• Strategy for decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries – including commercial strategy, marginal carbon abatement cost curves and delivery plans.

Your skills and experience

• You have experience of at least 8 years within the energy market, carbon markets or green fuels industry, ideally gained within Australia.
• You have commercial advisory experience gained either in industry (for example, within internal strategy or commercial teams), or as a consultant to the energy industry.
• Your passion for solving some of the most critical and tricky problems will be clear to all who work with you. You will be able to lead and coach small teams to deliver high-impact results within a fast-paced environment. You are not afraid to roll your sleeves up where needed.
• You will be confident in engaging directly with leadership teams within wholesale markets (electricity or carbon), risk, strategy, and trading functions to link market experience with detailed quantitative analysis and provide advice grounded in facts.
• You have demonstrated the ability to manage project teams collaboratively, across consulting staff and client employees to deliver actionable advice and support implementation of real change.
• You possess an entrepreneurial mindset and are passionate about being part of our culture and building a team, in a rapidly growing environment. You are just as passionate about your own development, and that of your team, as you are about the industry.

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.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• 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.
At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our B Corp certification shows that we’ve met and held ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.

We’re proud of our recent exploration of kindness and its role in business in our first-ever brand campaign: Economics of Kindness . You can see some additional recent impact work by clicking here .

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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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