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

The role

You will advise clients on strategic priorities and deliver change across trading operations, commercial performance, and new technologies. You will shape propositions at the intersection of commodity trading, AI, and digital transformation.

What you will do

• Shape propositions at the intersection of commodity trading, AI and digital transformation
• Translate real trading problems into practical GenAI and agentic use cases
• Advise clients on where AI should augment human decision-making and where workflows can be automated
• Design trading journeys from opportunity identification through to scaled adoption
• Work with traders, portfolio managers, data scientists and technology teams to turn concepts into solutions
• Drive adoption of GenAI copilots, agents and intelligent workflows
• Establish governance, model risk, human oversight and responsible-use approaches
• Advise on front-to-back trading processes
• Support clients in evolving their trading strategies, operating models and capabilities

Required qualifications

• 8-12+ years of relevant experience
• Strong background in either commodities and energy trading or data, analytics and AI
• Strong commercial judgement
• Ability to engage credibly with senior trading and executive stakeholders
• Ability to distinguish 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
• Working understanding or practical exposure to the other discipline

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in at least one commodity, such as Power, Gas, LNG, Oil, Metals or Environmental Products
• 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
• Experience of using, sponsoring or shaping data, analytics, automation or AI initiatives within a trading or commercial environment
• Practical experience identifying, shaping or delivering AI, GenAI, machine learning or intelligent automation use cases
• Understanding of the opportunities and limitations of GenAI, LLMs, AI agents and decision-support tools

Benefits

• 5 weeks of annual leave
• 2 weeks of additional paid leave after 5 years continuous service
• Hybrid working policy
• Flexibility around taking unpaid leave
• 3 days every year for Corporate Responsibility Days
• Annual People Fund to support and manage wellbeing
• Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme

About the company

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. 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.