Consultants to Senior Consultants (m/w/d) - Commodity & Energy Trading

Our Commodities & Energy Trading practice is growing and we are hiring Consultants and Senior Consultants (m/w/d) to join our team in Düsseldorf or Munich. The level offered will reflect your experience, expertise and demonstrated impact.

We work with leading commodity and energy trading organisations, utilities, and large energy consumers, supporting them to navigate increasingly complex markets, manage flexibility in their portfolio and deliver large-scale transformation programmes. Our work spans strategy, operating model and process design, trading transformation, and technology delivery.

This is your opportunity to combine deep industry exposure with hands-on client delivery, working directly with leading traders, utilities and renewable energy businesses as they transform their trading operations, integrate flexibility assets and adopt new technologies.

What you will be doing

You will work closely with clients on a range of transformation and advisory engagements, including

• Trading systems transformation: Supporting trading landscape design, system selection, implementation, and optimisation for core trading platforms and applications.
• Digital & trading transformation: Helping clients embed data strategies, analytics, and AI into trading operations and decision-making processes.
• Flexibility services & integration: Supporting the development and integration of flexibility capabilities across assets, technology platforms and commercial operations to maximise value in energy markets.                                                                                                                  
• Operating model & business transformation: Supporting the design and implementation of trading operating models and end-to-end processes across the full commodity and energy trading lifecycle.
• Risk and regulatory advisory: Strengthening risk and regulatory frameworks, governance, and reporting across trading organisations.

Your skills and experience 

We welcome professionals with experience in one or more of the following areas across LNG, Gas & Clean Fuels, Power, Metals, or Oil.
We recognise that great candidates come from a variety of backgrounds, so you do not need experience across all of these areas to apply.

• Commodity and energy trading, risk management, market analysis, commercial operations or trading support functions.
• Trading transformation initiatives, helping organisations improve processes, systems and ways of working across the front-to-back trading lifecycle.
• Data, analytics and emerging AI-enabled use cases within trading environments.
• ETRM/CTRM platforms and supporting technologies, including business analysis, requirements gathering, testing, implementation or continuous improvement activities.
• Market, credit, operational or regulatory risk topics, with an interest in helping trading organisations strengthen governance, controls and performance.

Depending on your experience and interests, you may also bring skills in one or more of the following areas:

• Business analysis, problem solving and transformation delivery experience.
• Strong analytical skills, including data analysis and visualisation.
• Experience working with business and technology stakeholders to deliver practical solutions.
• An interest in data, analytics, AI and digital technologies within commodity and energy trading.
• Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate ownership of workstreams, adapt quickly to complex situations, and thrive in client-facing environments.
• Professional proficiency in German and English is required for this role.

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.