Senior Manager (m/w/d) - Commodities & Energy Trading, AI & Trading Transformation

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.

Our Commodities and Energy Trading practice is looking for an experienced Senior Manager (m/w/d) to join our team in Düsseldorf or Munich.

We work with leading commodity and energy trading organisations, utilities and large energy consumers. Our work spans strategy, operating model and process design, trading transformation, commercial optimisation, risk and regulation, flexibility integration, and technology delivery.

This is an opportunity to advise influential organisations on strategic priorities and deliver meaningful change across trading operations, commercial performance and new technologies, while playing a visible role in building our German and European business.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Manager in our Commodities & Energy Trading practice, you will help clients navigate changing commodity markets by combining trading expertise with the practical application of data, analytics and AI.

You will play a key role in shaping and delivering our commodity and energy trading proposition: leading client engagements, developing new opportunities and showing clients where AI and advanced analytics can create genuine commercial value.

You are likely to bring deep expertise in either commodities and energy trading or data, analytics and AI, together with some understanding or practical exposure to the other. You will work alongside specialists from both disciplines, building on your core expertise while continuing to deepen your capabilities across the intersection of trading and AI. The aim is to turn emerging AI capabilities into practical, measurable improvements in how trading businesses operate.

AI & Trading Transformation

Shape propositions at the intersection of commodity trading, AI and digital transformation, and bring market insight on how AI is changing trading organisations, business models and competitive dynamics

Translate real trading problems into practical GenAI and agentic use cases that deliver value to clients

Advise clients on where AI should augment human decision-making, where workflows can be automated, and where human judgement remains critical

Design trading journeys from opportunity identification and experimentation through to scaled adoption, with the metrics and value cases that show impact on performance, productivity, risk and profitability

Work with traders, portfolio managers, data scientists and technology teams to turn concepts into solutions that operate in live trading environments

Drive adoption of GenAI copilots, agents and intelligent workflows that improve trader productivity and decision quality

Establish governance, model risk, human oversight and responsible-use approaches without losing sight of commercial outcomes

Commodities & Energy Trading

Advise on front-to-back trading processes, from market intelligence and trade origination through execution, scheduling, settlement and risk management across commodities including Power, Oil & Refined Products, Natural Gas, LNG, Metals, Renewables and Environmental Products

Support clients in evolving their trading strategies, operating models and capabilities in response to changing markets and new technologies

Bring an understanding of market structure, pricing, forecasting, physical flows and the commercial decisions that drive trading performance

Your skills and experience

We are looking for an experienced professional with 8-12+ years of relevant experience and a strong background in either commodities and energy trading or data, analytics and AI. The strongest candidates will combine meaningful experience across both areas. However, we also welcome applicants who bring deep expertise in one discipline alongside a working understanding of, or some practical exposure to, the other.

You might be a commodities and trading specialist who has applied data, analytics or AI to trading decisions, processes or transformation, or a data and AI practitioner who has worked in, or gained exposure to, commodities, energy or another trading environment.

You do not need equal depth in both disciplines, but you should be able to demonstrate a genuine foundation in each and a clear motivation to deepen your experience at their intersection.

What we look for in everyone

Strong commercial judgement and the ability to engage credibly with senior trading and executive stakeholders

The ability to distinguish genuinely valuable AI opportunities from technology-led experimentation

Experience contributing to or leading complex transformation, strategy or operating-model engagements

Strong leadership, communication and team-development skills

Deep expertise in either commodities and energy trading or data, analytics and AI, together with a working understanding of, or some practical exposure to, the other discipline and the commitment to continue building depth across both

If your primary background is in commodities and trading, you will ideally bring

Deep expertise in at least one commodity, such as Power, Gas, LNG, Oil, Metals or Environmental Products

A strong understanding of trading, portfolio management, risk, physical flows, scheduling, optimisation and/or commercial operations

Familiarity with ETRM/CTRM platforms and the wider trading technology and data ecosystems

Some experience of using, sponsoring or shaping data, analytics, automation or AI initiatives within a trading or commercial environment, together with an understanding of how these capabilities can improve trading decisions, processes and outcomes

If your primary background is in data, analytics and AI, you will ideally bring

Practical experience identifying, shaping or delivering AI, GenAI, machine learning or intelligent automation use cases

An understanding of the opportunities and limitations of GenAI, LLMs, AI agents and decision-support tools, and how they apply in a trading environment

Some experience of commodities, energy, financial markets or trading environments, with an understanding of how trading organisations make decisions, manage risk and generate value, together with a strong interest in deepening your knowledge of commodity markets and front-to-back trading processes

What a career at Baringa will give you

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