Senior Manager, AI-Enabled Operations

Baringa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave + 2 weeks after 5

Hybrid working policy

CSR days (3 per year)

Wellbeing fund

Profit share scheme

Job summary

Baringa is seeking a Senior Manager to lead AI-enabled operations programmes from diagnostics through to value realisation. You will shape transformation strategies, work closely with COOs, CFOs and technology leaders, and oversee delivery teams to ensure outcomes meet client needs.

You will drive measurable benefits, coach teams, and develop capabilities across the UK EVC offering, while traveling up to 50% to support clients across industries.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI-enabled operational transformation into production with measurable client benefits.
• Significant experience in a top-tier management or technology consultancy.
• Experience across the client lifecycle from diagnostics to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Strong technical grounding in AI, automation, and data controls for production use.
• Experience managing systems integrators, vendors or internal delivery teams.
• Experience in business development and delivering work in at least one industry sector.
• Strong senior stakeholder relationships and communication across business, technical and executive audiences.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and to travel within the EU/UK.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-enabled operations programmes end to end from diagnostics to value realisation.
• Shape AI and transformation strategies and roadmaps with senior stakeholders.
• Oversee systems integrators, technology vendors and internal delivery teams.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams across Baringa and partner with client leadership.
• Ensure sustained value through benefits tracking and client capability building.
• Coach and develop team members and drive career growth.
• Build long-term client relationships and contribute to proposals and business development.
• Support recruitment and capability development for the UK EVC team.

Skills

AI-enabled operations

Consulting leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Change management

Team leadership

Business development

Public speaking

Tools

Azure AI

Power Platform

Celonis

AWS

Pega

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.

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 Enterprise Value Creation (EVC) practice in London is growing, and we are looking for a Senior Manager to join the team. Expectations of value have changed. The EVC team helps clients achieve sustainable P&L improvement, addressing short-term financial priorities while building long-term value for shareholders. We bring a private equity mindset to enterprises, and we differentiate ourselves through the rigour of our thinking and the humanity of our execution: we combine deep data and analysis with market knowledge, and we work side by side with clients so that value is realised and sustained. Our AI-Enabled Operations team helps organisations reimagine how their operations work and create measurable value through AI, automation and operational improvement – from finding where AI genuinely pays back to making sure the benefits land in the P&L. You will work with clients across our industry sectors: Financial Services, Products & Services, Energy & Resources, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, and Government.

What you will be doing

• Lead AI-enabled operations programmes end to end: from diagnostics, baselines and business cases, through process and operating model redesign, to implementation, adoption and value realisation
• Shape AI and operational transformation strategies and roadmaps tailored to each client’s needs, working closely with COOs, CFOs, technology leaders and other senior stakeholders
• Oversee systems integrators, technology vendors and internal delivery teams, making sure solutions meet business needs and are delivered to scope and quality
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams, bringing together expertise from across Baringa
• Make sure value is realised and sustained, through robust benefits tracking and building client capability and driving user adoption
• Coach and develop team members, helping them grow their skills and careers
• Build long-term client relationships, shape proposals and contribute to business development
• Help build the UK EVC team and its AI-Enabled Operations offering, including proposition development, recruitment and capability development

Your Skills And Experience

• A track record of leading AI-enabled operational transformation into production, not just proof of concept, delivering measurable benefits for clients by reshaping the work and reimagining the organization and applying operational excellence principles
• Significant experience in a top-tier management or technology consultancy
• Experience across the client lifecycle: from diagnostics, baselines and business cases, to process and operating model design, to implementation and benefits realisation
• Strong technical grounding in AI and automation – such as generative and agentic AI, process mining and low-code workflow platforms – and in the data, evaluation and controls needed to run them in production
• Experience of technology-enabled change, including managing systems integrators, vendors or internal delivery teams
• Experience in business development and in delivering work in at least one of Baringa’s industry sectors
• Strong senior stakeholder relationship, communication and presentation skills, with business, technical and executive audiences
• Experience coaching teams and delivering training to colleagues and clients
• Ability to travel for up to 50% of the time, and to travel and work within the EU/UK

Nice To Have

• Certifications or delivery experience in AI and automation platforms such as Azure AI, AWS, Celonis, Power Platform, ServiceNow or Pega
• Exposure to large-scale technology transformation programmes, such as ERP, CRM, workflow platforms or re-platforming
• Experience in regulated environments such as financial services, utilities or the public sector

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Benefits

• 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.

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.

Baringa Privacy Notices

For UK & EU

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [e-mail]

For the USA

Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact [e-mail]

For Australia & Singapore

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [e-mail]