Manager, Central Government

About Baringa

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.

We are looking for an experienced Manager to join our Central Government team

Following the continued growth of Baringa, we are excited to be building our Central Government practice. We are looking for experienced managers who will thrive with us as we grow.

We work on the Government’s most complex changes across Central Government departments, helping departments deliver complex policy, operational and transformation priorities and better service citizens throughout the UK. Our Central Government team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with HMRC, DWP, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and many other central Whitehall departments.

The UK public sector faces major challenges over the coming years, as well as opportunities to drive the recently laid out missions. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve their challenges, then we could be what you are looking for.

We are supporting the public sector’s most important programmes across Whitehall and the wider public sector, using our skills in Strategy and Business Cases, Project Delivery, Operational Delivery, DDaT and Government Commercial.

What you will be doing

As a Manager in our Central Government team, you will typically lead workstreams and teams on complex client engagements.

While no two projects are the same, examples of the work you might be involved in include:

Leading project delivery

Leading Baringa and blended client teams, setting direction and enabling high performance

Shaping engagement objectives, deliverables and success measures with clients

Translating complex challenges into clear delivery plans, workstreams and priorities

Managing stakeholders, resolving ambiguity and helping clients navigate delivery challenges

Ensuring the quality, coherence and impact of team outputs

Working with senior government stakeholders

Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders

Leading governance discussions and presenting recommendations to support decision-making

Helping clients understand strategic, political, fiscal and operational implications of different options

Identifying opportunities to create additional value beyond immediate project objectives

Delivering transformation and change

Depending on the engagement, you may help clients to:

Develop business cases, funding submissions and options appraisals

Analyse the impact of policy, operational or service changes

Design operating models, services and delivery approaches

Deliver large-scale transformation programmes

Improve operational performance and resilience

Lead commercial and procurement activities

Deliver digital, data, technology and AI-enabled change

Developing people and teams

Creating inclusive and collaborative team environments

Coaching, mentoring and developing colleagues

Providing constructive feedback and managing performance, wellbeing and capacity

Acting as an Advisor and supporting career development where applicable

Contributing to the development of our Central Government practice through knowledge sharing and communities of practice

Growing our business

Managing engagement commercials including forecasting, resourcing, billing and scope management

Leading or contributing to proposals, presentations and commercial models

Developing thought leadership and propositions aligned to government priorities

Building internal and external networks that support account and practice growth

Your skills and experience

Experience leading projects for government or public sector organisations, ideally within a professional services / civil service / consulting environment

A strong interest in working with Central Government departments (e.g. HMRC, DWP, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, DBT, DfE, MHCLG)

Ability to shape responses for teams to work on complex, ambiguous problems, analyse data and information, and communicate clear, evidence-based insights

Confidence leading blended client / consulting teams and internal specialists in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments

Curiosity and interest in technology, digital, data and/or AI, and how these can be applied to improve public services

Strong understanding of how to use digital and AI tools, responsibly and ethically in your day-to-day work.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences

A genuine motivation to improve outcomes for citizens and public servants

Experience leading, or understanding of how to lead business development activities within the public sector

The ability to get UK Government Security Clearance

Optional skills / experience based on specific technical skillset:

Alongside an expectation of flexibility to respond to our clients greatest needs, we expect candidates to bring depth in one or more of the following areas:

Strategy, policy and business cases

Leading policy analysis, options appraisal or strategic decision support

Leading the development of public-sector business cases and funding submissions

Applying relevant government appraisal and evaluation guidance proportionately

Leading economic, financial, fiscal or cost modelling

Defining benefits, outcomes and evaluation approaches

Advising senior stakeholders on trade-offs and value for money

Programme and project delivery

Mobilising and leading complex programmes, projects or PMO functions

Designing proportionate governance and controls

Managing interdependencies across organisations, suppliers or workstreams

Leading assurance, delivery recovery or programme reset activity

Establishing performance, benefits and outcome reporting

Managing transition into business as usual

Operating model and operational excellence

Leading target operating-model design

Translating strategy and policy into implementable organisational change

Leading service and process transformation

Applying operational-excellence or systems-thinking approaches

Improving productivity, performance and resilience

Managing implementation and operational transition

Digital, data, technology and AI

Leading multidisciplinary digital or data-enabled transformation

Applying user-centred and service-standard principles

Leading business analysis, service design or requirements definition

Developing data strategies, governance arrangements or analytical solutions

Identifying, pri