Commercial and Cost Transformation Consultant/Senior Consultant

Our Enterprise Value Creation practice are looking for experienced Consultants to join the team. 

Expectations of value have changed. Driving revenue growth, optimising margins & costs, and maximising ROI remain pivotal but the opportunity is bigger. The EVC team drives sustainable P&L improvements by realising cost and revenue growth strategies that address short-term financial challenges and long-term shareholder expectation. We bring a PE mindset to enterprises, balancing the need to be cost-efficient whist maintaining a ruthless focus on profitable growth. We differentiate ourselves through the rigour of our thinking and the humanity of our execution, generating compelling insights from deep data and analysis combined with market knowledge, ensuring maximum value realisation is delivered and sustained longer-term. As a member of our team you will help clients identify value rapidly as well as shape and drive a breadth of exciting & transformational work across all our industry sectors (Financial Services, Products & Services, Energy & Resources, Pharmaceutical & Life sciences and Central Government.

What you will be doing

• You will be responsible for helping clients address complex strategic, operational, and organisational cost, margin and value-creation issues
• Programmes will range anywhere from setting EVC strategy and vision tailored to client's needs, to mobilizing and leading multi-disciplinary cost and margin improvement programmes
• Capability Building: Empower clients to sustain improvements through effective knowledge transfer and capability building​
• You will be a key member of the Enterprise Value Creation team responsible for building out the Enterprise Value Creation team to become the “Go To” brand in the market​
• You will be responsible for bringing together our cross-functional Baringa team to bring the best in class to the client​
• Support initiatives focused on pricing strategy, monetisation opportunities, profitability analysis, pricing analytics, and commercial performance monitoring to help clients set and achieve ambitious KPIs and targets 

Your skills and experience

We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic consultants with 2 to 5 years of relevant work experience and a passion for delivering impactful results in dynamic environments. Ideal candidates will have: 

Must have:

• University degree in Economics, Econometrics, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus​
• Ideally, ACCA/CIMA/CFA qualified, with an Accounting or Finance degree​
• Advanced skills in financial modelling and quantitative analysis to generate actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making​
• Experience in profitability and monetisation analysis, cost optimisation, pricing strategy development, pricing analytics, or KPI/target setting for sustainable commercial success​
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a very fast paced environment​
• Ability to break down complex problems into small, digestible set of challenges​
• A high level of applied thinking and intellectual curiosity​
  
• An ability to assess information and distil into key strategic insights, as well as convey these clearly and succinctly in both oral and written form​
• Candidates should be comfortable with international travel, which may be required for up to 30% of the time. Candidates must be able to travel and work within the EU/UK.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:​

• Experience working in a leading strategy house, Big 4 firm (or similar), with a cost focus, investment banking, audit, M&A advisory or similar field​
• Experience in providing expert commercial and strategic advisory services, leveraging financial and operational analytics to drive client profitability and business growth​
• Experience in financial and cost transformation initiatives, identifying opportunities for cost efficiency and strategic value creation.​
• Working in a Deals environment is a plus

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.