Manager/ Senior Manager – Commodities and Energy Trading Consulting

BARINGA CONSULTING LIMITED (Singapore Branch); Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm based in Singapore is seeking experienced Management Consultants passionate about Energy and Commodities Trading. This role involves managing change projects for top-tier clients in the sector, requiring transformation consulting experience. Candidates should demonstrate strong leadership, project management skills, and a collaborative approach to solving clients' challenges. The company promotes a people-first work culture with opportunities for professional growth and a focus on wellbeing.

Benefits

Quarterly promotional reviews

Annual wellbeing allowance of $555 SGD

5 weeks of annual leave

Company profit share

Hybrid working policy

Qualifications

• Management consultancy experience is essential.
• Experience in project-based environments managing workstreams.
• Familiarity with project lifecycle and systems delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Designing Trading Operating Model and Processes.
• Leading client meetings to understand requirements.
• Managing project workstreams including planning and execution.

Skills

Demonstrable transformation consulting experience

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Problem-solving mindset

Ability to build effective relationships

Curiosity and self-driven attitude

Job description

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.

Find out more at baringa.com or on LinkedIn and X.

We are looking for experienced Management Consultants who are passionate about working in Energy and Commodities Trading.

Our energy and commodities trading team based in Singapore works predominately with tier 1 Energy, Metals/ Mining and Agricultural traders across APAC to help them to deliver strategic, digital, and operational change projects. Our deep content expertise is recognised by our clients and means that they come to us to help them with their most important or challenging projects.

What you will be doing

You will be working on change projects for our Energy & Commodities Trading clients, which will include:

• Designing Trading Operating Model and Processes
• Trading Systems Strategy & Planning Delivery Roadmaps
• Selecting Trading Systems, and advising clients on structuring implementation programmes – especially of CTRM/ETRM
• Designing Risk Management and Control frameworks

Working as a team in the following types of day-to-day activities on projects:

• Leading and Managing project workstreams including estimation, planning and execution, risks and issues management.
• Leading face-to-face client meetings to understand client requirements and problem statements.
• Direct management and coaching of one or more project resources (Baringa and/or client and/or vendor resources)
• Producing high quality project deliverables and being able to ensure quality of output for team members.
• Building trusted working relationships with key project stakeholders.
• In addition, you will be expected to engage in internal ‘grow our business’ type activities.

Your skills and experience

We recruit individuals at all levels based on merit. Some of the key skills we are looking for in a Manager or Senior Manager include:

Experience

• Demonstrable transformation consulting experience from either
• Management Consultancy/Big 4 Consulting
• Working as an internal consultant at a Trading Company or Investment Banking
• Energy & Commodities industry experience is desirable but by no means essential. As long as you can demonstrate a genuine interest for working in this sector, we’d love to hear from you!
• You have experience working in a project-based environment and have run projects, or major workstreams on large programmes.
• You possess a good understanding of a typical project lifecycle and systems delivery methodologies.
• You have experience leading small teams – you have ideally had 1+ direct reports.
• You have worked previously in an internal or external client-facing project role

Skills

• You are curious, self-driven and comfortable navigating a steep learning curve.
• You are passionate about learning and your personal growth.
• You have excellent communication and presentation skills and a track record of effective team working.
• You possess a problem-solving mindset.
• You have a track record in building effective relationships both internally and externally to contribute to the growth of the business.
• You can work in a start-up culture, being able to deal with uncertainty, have flexibility, and provide support across a range of different internal initiatives in conjunction with primary client project.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First

• We give you every opportunity to progress by having four promotional reviews a year. 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.
• We’re proud to put people first with wellbeing at the forefront of our culture, one example of this is that every employee receives $555 SGD a year to put towards their wellbeing!
• We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year.
• All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
• We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and have a 3-4-5 policy. You’ll likely travel to be on-site with your clients. Our policy guarantees you’ll spend no more than 3 nights away from home, 4 days on-site with a client, with the 5th day working from home or back at Baringa HQ. We know that the ‘ideal’ balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives for that reason we have implemented a hybrid working policy.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 if you feel you want to discuss this with us one-on-one ahead of applying.

Using business as a force for good

B Corp™ certification shows that we’ve met and hold ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. We’ve written it into our articles of association, so the way we run our business will continue to make life better for our clients, our people, our communities, and our planet.

We are committed to being a sustainable business which drives us to continually rethink and reengineer how we make a positive impact on the world. From working with our clients to build wind farms, setting up smart hospital wards, and designing a vaccine supply chain, to aligning our business to net zero by 2030 and working in communities where we believe we can make a difference – we want our actions to tell the story of our lasting impact.

Join Us

Our award-winning people-first philosophy has always made us distinctive – At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people – customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work. We explore kindness in our first ever brand campaign - Economics of Kindness

We’re a bunch of proudly geeky experts who come from industries around the world. We’re a kind and curious team who are building a culture where people can achieve their best, celebrate our differences, and create impact that lasts.

If you have the required skills and experience for this role, apply today.