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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.\nThe 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.\nClients 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.\nCertified 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.\nOur Data, Analytics and AI practice is looking for an experienced Director to join the team. \nBaringa is hiring experienced Directors to lead enterprise Data, Analytics & AI transformation engagements, helping commodity trading clients harness Generative AI, Agentic AI and advanced analytics to modernize trading operations, improve decision-making and create measurable business value. Our clients rely on our deep industry expertise to navigate a trading landscape defined by price volatility, increasingly complex value chains, and evolving regulatory demands. You'll help them define and execute trading strategies, build business capabilities, drive technology and digital transformation, and manage risk and compliance - all underpinned by our strong data, analytics and AI practice. \nWhat You Will Be Doing \nAs a Director within Data, Analytics & AI, you will own and shape the growth of Baringa's US Energy & Resources (E&R) practice across North America, defining the go-to-market strategy around data and analytics. You will lead strategic client relationships, originate and sell complex transformation programs, develop our people, and define our market proposition while continuing to oversee delivery of high-impact engagements. The ideal candidate brings deep subject-matter expertise across several of the areas outlined below, though mastery of every discipline is not expected. \nCommercial & Practice Leadership \nDrive the growth and strategic direction of Baringa's Data, Analytics& AI capability. \nBuild executive client relationships and develop strategic technology partnerships. \nOriginate, win, and grow consulting engagements across new and existing accounts. \nLead complex proposals, commercial negotiations, and account growth initiatives. \nDevelop market-leading offerings, accelerators, and industry thought leadership. \nRecruit, coach, and develop high-performing teams and future leaders. \nContribute to business planning, investment decisions, and long-term practice growth. \nData, Analytics & AI \nStrategy & advisory - work with senior stakeholders to define data and AI strategies and multi-year roadmaps, advise on data governance and compliance, and run data maturity assessments using frameworks such as DAMA and DCAM. \nDefine enterprise AI strategies and operating models aligned to business objectives. \nLead adoption of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent automation across front, middle and back-office trading functions. \nDevelop AI governance frameworks covering Responsible AI, model lifecycle management, security and regulatory compliance. \nArchitecture & modernization - design enterprise-grade, cloud-based data platforms, lead themove away from legacy systems, and establish robustdata management foundations to supporta unified data model. \nEngineering & pipelines - architectscalable batch and real-time data pipelines, automate ETL/ELT workflows, andoptimise processing and storage performance. \nAnalytics & AI - Lead the design and deployment of predictive analytics, machine learning and Generative AI solutions that improve trading performance, operational efficiency and decision-making. Define AI use cases, oversee model lifecycle management and drive enterprise adoption. \nLeadership & delivery - lead multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, architects and analysts, mentor others, and deliver measurable value against client deliverables and KPIs. \nCommodity & Energy Trading \nYou'll apply this expertise across the commodity and energy trading agenda, partnering with clients on engagements such as: \nStrategy & commercial advisory - US market entry and establishment, commercial trading and hedging strategy, commercial collaboration models, and book structure and transfer pricing. \nAI-enabled Trading Transformation - Apply AI strategically to modernize commodity and energy trading operations, enabling intelligent decision-making, operational efficiency across front, middle and back-office functions. \nDesign AI-enabled trading operating models. \nApply Generative AI to trader productivity, market intelligence, regulatory reportingand operational support. \nIdentify opportunities for autonomous workflows and AI copilots across trading organizations. \nBusiness capability development - trading capability assessment and benchmarking, capability and operating/organization design, business process design, change program planning, business and IT readiness and training, and operational excellence. \nRisk & regulatory advisory - risk strategy and policy design; risk capability assessment and design across market, credit, operational and climate risk; and regulatory and compliance capability (KYC, AML, trade surveillance). \nTechnology advisory & transformation - technology strategy and architecture design, IT operating model design, technology capability building, program QA and health checks, and vendor selection and implementation. \nTools & Technology \nTo excel in this role you'll bring hands-on, in-depth experience across most of the following - though no one is expected to know every tool: \nTrading & risk systems: Endur, Allegro, RightAngleandcomparable ETRM/CTRM platforms. \nAI Platforms: Azure OpenAI, VertexAI, Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, MLFlow \nCloud& warehousing: AWS, Azureand Google Cloud; Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery and Synapse. \nEngineering: Databricks, Kafka, Airflow and Flink; storage formats such as Parquet and ORC. \nAnalytics & ML: Power BI, Tableau, Qlik and Looker; Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch and Databricks. \nIntegration & governance: Informatica, Talend and MuleSoft; Collibra and Alation; GDPR, CCPA, DAMA and DCAM. \nProgramming andAI technologies: Python, SQL, APIs, LLM frameworks, Scalaand R. \nYour Skills and Experience \nWe're looking for people with strong client delivery and relationship-building skills, coupled with deep advisory expertise in data, AI and commodity and energy trading: \nDirector: 15+ years, including leadership of large-scale data, AIand trading transformation programs. \nStrong mentoring skills and a record of building high-performing teams. \nStrategy, design and implementation of advanced analytics and AI platforms for trading organizations. \nA recognized voice in the market -publishing perspectives, contributing to industry forums and shaping client thinking on data, AI and the future of commodity and energy trading. \nA comprehensive understanding of the energy and petrochemicals value chains. \nCapability assessments and target operating model development for trading organizations. \nLeadership of business and IT transformation programs, including change management. \nClient-side advisory for modernizing trading systems, with a focus on market-leading vendor solutions such as OpenLink and RightAngle. \nProven ability to evaluate data maturity and architect solutions that bridge business and technical needs. \nProven ability to grow accounts and expand client relationships. \nA demonstrable track record of landing and originating new accounts. \nExperience leading a practice and building a business as a horizontal within a consulting practice. \nNice to have - experienceas a trader or in a commercial IT function in industry.\n What a career at Baringa will give you\nPuttingPeopleFirst.\nBaringa 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: \nMedical, dental, and vision insurance at no cost for employee-only coverage. These benefits utilizecomprehensive networks to offer coverage throughout the United States\nCompany-paid group term life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and travel insurance \nParticipation in our 401k retirement plan; we contribute 3% of your annual base salary and match up to an additional2% if you contribute to the plan \nAbility to set aside pre-tax dollars toward commuter benefits, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, and Dep-care FSA \nBaringa People Fund - an opportunity for every employee to manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice outside of work \nPaid Parental leave of 16 weeks for primary caregivers \nOpportunities to grow your skills and knowledge through a range of learning courses and resources \nFive weeks’ annual leave, with an additionaltwo-week recharge after five years\nDiversity and Inclusion\nWe 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. \nAn award-winning workplace\nYou 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. \nUsing business as a force for good. \nWe 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 organizations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. \nWe 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 organizations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.\nJoin us\nAll applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. 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