Manager (m/w/d) – Commodity & Energy Trading

Our Commodities & Energy Trading practice is growing and we are looking for Managers (m/w/d) to join our team in Düsseldorf or Munich. 

As a Manager, you will lead client engagements and workstreams, build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and contribute to the continued growth of our Commodity & Energy Trading practice across Germany and Europe.

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 lead high-impact transformation programmes for some of the most influential organisations in commodity and energy markets. You will combine deep industry expertise with strategic client advisory, helping organisations transform their trading operations, integrate flexibility assets, optimise commercial performance and adopt new technologies.

What you will be doing

You will play a key role in delivering client engagements, leading project teams and building trusted relationships with client stakeholders. Your responsibilities may include:

• Operating model & business transformation: Leading trading operating model and business transformation workstreams, helping clients optimise governance, processes and organisational structures to deliver sustainable operational change.
• Digital & trading transformation: Delivering data, analytics and AI-enabled transformation initiatives, helping clients improve trading decision-making, operational efficiency and commercial performance.
• Trading systems transformation: Leading ETRM/CTRM transformation workstreams, supporting strategy, implementation and optimisation initiatives while aligning business and technology stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
• Flexibility services & integration: Leading the delivery of flexibility strategy and integration engagements, helping clients unlock value from battery storage, renewable assets and enabling technologies across evolving energy markets.
• Risk and regulatory advisory: Advising clients on risk and regulatory challenges, enhancing risk management frameworks, governance and controls while supporting adaptation to evolving market and regulatory requirements.
• Leadership & Business Development: Leading project teams, developing junior colleagues, building trusted client relationships and contributing to business development, thought leadership and capability growth across the practice.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for experienced professionals with a strong track record in consulting, commodity trading, energy markets or trading transformation.

We welcome candidates from a variety of backgrounds across Power, LNG, Gas & Clean Fuels, 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.

• Trading operating model design and transformation.
• Commodities and energy trading business process improvement.
• ETRM/CTRM platforms and supporting trading technologies.
• Data, analytics and emerging AI-enabled use cases within trading environments.
• Flexibility integration and optimisation across power, gas and renewable energy markets.
• Trading strategy, commercial optimisation and portfolio management.
• Market, credit, operational or regulatory risk management.

In addition, successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Experience leading complex workstreams, projects or transformation programmes.
• The ability to build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Experience managing and developing project teams.
• A track record of delivering high-quality outcomes in complex and fast-paced environments.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and communication skills.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in contributing to business development activities.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
• Professional proficiency in German and English.

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.