Manager, Digital Risk & Cyber

Baringa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Hybrid working policy

CSR days

Wellbeing fund

Profit share

Job summary

Baringa is recruiting for experienced Managers in Digital Risk & Cyber to own delivery across complex engagements and lead diverse teams. This role focuses on building capabilities, advising senior stakeholders, and shaping client solutions with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity, resilience, and AI-enabled approaches.

Join a specialist team that designs frameworks and operating models, collaborates across industries, and grows with quarterly promotions without quotas.

Qualifications

• Digital risk and cybersecurity experience in consulting or in-house.
• Delivery and engagement leadership on demanding client-facing work.
• People leadership: coaching and developing others.
• Credibility to build trusted client relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of standards and frameworks: NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CAF, DORA, EU AI Act, UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.
• Technology and AI literacy and interest in using AI to deliver.
• Depth in domains like OT/ICS security, CAF, AI security/governance, post-quantum cryptography or operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end workstreams on complex engagements and shape the delivery.
• Lead and develop a mixed-level team, coaching through the workflow.
• Develop deep capability in a chosen specialism and design practical tools for clients.
• Engage directly with CISOs, managing expectations and sustaining delivery quality.
• Spot and qualify opportunities, shaping proposals with Partners/Directors.
• Help build the practice by contributing to propositions, profile and talent.

Skills

Digital risk experience

Delivery leadership

People leadership

Client relationships

Frameworks and standards

AI literacy

Domain depth in security

Tools

Power BI

Power Apps

Risk quantification

Digital twins

Job description

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 Digital, Risk & Cyber practice are looking for an experienced Managers, who want to build and solve, not just advise

Digital risk, cybersecurityand resilience are no longer cost centres – they are where value is won or lost

The Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack cost the company £196m and had a £1.9bn impact on the UK economy. The damage wasn't a databreach,it was an attack on the connected technology that runs the business. We protect the things which underpin our daily lives: energy, water, payments, banking, hospitals and critical public services – and the supply chains behind them. Wedon'tjust advise clients; we design,buildand stand up the frameworks, operating models and tooling that keep working long after we leave.

We'rea specialist team scaling fast, andwe'reindependent by design: no software to resell, no audit relationship to protect, so nothing shapes our advice except the problem in front of you.

We work in small teams, so you lead from the front–owning delivery, developing the people around you, and building the client relationships thatopen uprepeatwork. Quarterly promotion cycles and no quotas mean you move up whenyou'reready, not when a slotopens up.

We'relooking for Managers who want to own our clients' hardest problems in digital risk,securityand resilience–and grow thecapabilities,teams and relationships that solve them.

Our Digital Risk and Cyber (DRC) team helps clients secure the things that matter most – from theiroverall security strategy and operating model, to the specific technologies that drive value in their business. Our work is organised around two specialisms:

Digital Resilience: helping clients meet fast-moving security, resilience and regulatory obligations such as the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF),the EU’s DigitalOperationalResilience Act (DORA)and EU AI Act,and the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

Digital Trust: helping clients govern emerging technology and security risk, includingAI,cloudand post-quantum cryptography.

We also build security into our clients' biggest change and transformationprogrammes, andrun the regulatory and standards compliance work thatunderpins their operations.

We are independent by design. With no software to resell and no audit relationship to protect, our people can give a genuinely honest view–and be trusted advisors in the truest sense.

What you will be doing

• Own the work: Take end-to-end ownership of a workstream on complex engagements–shaping the approach, running the day-to-day, and being accountable for the quality and impact of what you and you r team produces.
• Lead a team: Manage and develop a mixed-level team, from Analysts to Senior Consultants–setting clear direction, coaching in the flow of the work, and being the kind of leader people want to work with.
• Go deep, and solve: Build genuine depth in a specialism you care about, and design capabilities and tools clients actually use–using AI to compress the high-volume work, so your time goes on the judgement.
• Be the trusted advisor: Work directly with CISOs and their teams, building relationships and managing the expectations that keep delivery on track and advice landing.
• Start winning work: Spot, scope and qualify opportunities–shaping proposals alongside our Partners and Directors, and taking responsibility for turning strong delivery into the next piece of work.
• Help build the practice: Contribute to our propositions, our profile and our talent–putting yourself forward to lead the right opportunities and finding ways to create more value for clients.

Your skills and experience

We care more about the shape of your experience than a checklist. If most of the following sound like you,we'dlike to hear from you:

• Digital risk and cyber experience: a strongtrack recordin digital risk, cybersecurityor resilience, whether gained in consulting or in-house, and a genuine passion for the field.
• Delivery and engagement leadership: experience owning a workstream or leading delivery in demanding, client-facing environments, with the judgement to keep quality high and the communication skills to engage anyone from a technology team to theexecutive team.
• People leadership: experience managing,coachinganddeveloping others–and a real interest in building teams and bringing people on.
• Client relationships: the credibility to build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, and to turn good delivery into repeat work.
• Frameworks and standards: a goodknowledge of the standards and frameworks that shape our work, for example NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and the regulatory agenda–the EU AI Act, DORA, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill,and CAF.
• Technology and AI literacy: fluency in, or real curiosity about, using AI to deliver,and advising clients on securing and governing it.
• Depth in one or more of our domains: Meaningful experience in at least one area weoperatein–particularly OT/ICS security, CAF, AI security and governance, post-quantum and cryptographic agility, or operational resilience.

Bonus points for:

• Certifications: ForexampleCISSP, CCSP or AIGP–a plus, but no substitute for real-world experience.
• Building tooling and automation: Hands-on with building, not just using– for example agentic AI, Power BI, Power Apps, risk quantificationmodelsor digital twins.

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

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