Energy Networks - Manager

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Hybrid working policy

CSR days

Wellbeing fund

Profit share scheme

Job summary

Baringa is seeking Consultants at Manager level to join our UK Energy Networks team. You will work across the full lifecycle from policy and regulation to strategy and delivery, helping networks modernise and digitise operations while enabling AI-driven business cases.

You will deliver client engagements on capital delivery and asset management, shape operating models, and mobilise delivery with engineers and field forces.

Qualifications

• Experience in utilities networks or asset-intensive sectors with knowledge of regulated environments.
• Credibility in capital delivery, asset management, field operations, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Experience supporting digital, data, and AI-driven change with translating opportunities into value cases and delivery roadmaps.
• Collaborative, high-performing team ethos and passion for energy transition and delivering client outcomes.
• Willingness to travel to client sites (1–2 days per week) and support hybrid working.

Responsibilities

• Deliver client engagements across networks capital delivery and asset management, helping clients plan, build and operate critical infrastructure.
• Shape and deliver operating model improvements across people, process and technology, including governance, ways of working and performance management.
• Help clients deploy leading-edge digital and AI solutions in a pragmatic, business-case-led way (e.g., digitising field operations, improving asset data, enabling better decision-making).
• Work with client and partner teams to mobilise delivery – from defining the problem to landing change on the ground with engineers and field forces.
• Contribute to bids, proposals and client relationship development, bringing insight from our UK-wide network client portfolio.

Skills

Utilities industry experience

Capital delivery

Asset management

Digital/AI change

Hybrid working/travel

Job description

About our Energy Networks practice

We are looking for Consultants at Manager level to join our UK Energy Networks team. The team works with every electricity and gas network in the UK, supporting clients across the full lifecycle – from policy and regulation through to strategy, operating model, and delivery. As the sector accelerates investment to enable net zero, networks are shifting from primarily managing assets to building and modernising them at pace, while also digitising operations and adopting AI in a business‑case‑led way.

We help clients strengthen capital delivery and asset management, mobilise field forces, and deliver technology‑enabled transformation that improves resilience, performance and consumer value.

What you will be doing

• You will deliver client engagements across networks capital delivery and asset management, helping clients plan, build and operate critical infrastructure.
• You will shape and deliver operating model improvements across people, process and technology, including governance, ways of working and performance management.
• You will help clients deploy leading‑edge digital and AI solutions in a pragmatic, business‑case‑led way (e.g., digitising field operations, improving asset data, and enabling better decision‑making).
• You will work with client and partner teams to mobilise delivery – from defining the problem to landing change on the ground with engineers and field forces.
• You will contribute to bids, proposals and client relationship development, bringing insight from our UK‑wide network client portfolio.

Your skills and experience

• Consulting and/or industry experience in utilities, networks, water or adjacent asset‑intensive sectors (e.g., oil and gas), with a strong understanding of how regulated businesses operate.
• Credibility in one or more of: capital delivery, asset management, field operations, or technology‑enabled operational transformation.
• Experience supporting digital, data, and/or AI‑driven change and translating technology opportunities into pragmatic value cases, target operating models and delivery roadmaps.
• A collaborative, high‑performing team ethos and passion for the energy transition and delivering outcomes for clients.
• Comfortable with travel to client sites as needed (typically 1–2 days per week) and supportive of hybrid working with purposeful time together.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave: 5 weeks of annual leave plus an additional 2 weeks after 5 years of continuous service.
• Flexible working: hybrid working policy and more flexibility around unpaid leave.
• Corporate responsibility days: 3 days each year to help social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing fund: annual People Fund to support personal wellbeing.
• Profit share scheme: participation in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme.

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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 alternative educational and career paths. We actively encourage applications from less represented and minority groups and provide reasonable adjustments where needed.