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

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

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 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 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.