Consultants to Senior Consultants (m/w/d) - Commodity & Energy Trading

<div class="content-intro"><h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About Baringa&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Certified as a&nbsp;<em>Great Place to Work </em>around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the <em>Financial Times </em>in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by <em>Forbes </em>for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.</p></div><h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">Our Commodities &amp; Energy Trading practice is growing and we are hiring Consultants and Senior Consultants (m/w/d) to join our team in Düsseldorf or Munich. The level offered will reflect your experience, expertise and demonstrated impact.</span></span></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>This is your opportunity to combine deep industry exposure with hands-on client delivery, working directly with leading traders, utilities and renewable energy businesses as they transform their trading operations, integrate flexibility assets and adopt new technologies.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="none">What you will be doing</span></span></h3> <p>You will work closely with clients on a range of transformation and advisory engagements, including</p> <ul> <li><strong>Trading systems transformation:</strong> Supporting trading landscape design, system selection, implementation, and optimisation for core trading platforms and applications.</li> <li><strong>Digital &amp; trading transformation</strong>: Helping clients embed data strategies, analytics, and AI into trading operations and decision-making processes.</li> <li><strong>Flexibility services &amp; integration:</strong> Supporting the development and integration of flexibility capabilities across assets, technology platforms and commercial operations to maximise value in energy markets.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Operating model &amp; business transformation:</strong> Supporting the design and implementation of trading operating models and end-to-end processes across the full commodity and energy trading lifecycle.</li> <li><strong>Risk and regulatory advisory:</strong> Strengthening risk and regulatory frameworks, governance, and reporting across trading organisations.</li> </ul> <h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="none">Your skills and experience</span>&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>We welcome professionals with experience in one or more of the following areas across LNG, Gas &amp; Clean Fuels, Power, Metals, or Oil. <br>We recognise that great candidates come from a variety of backgrounds, so you do not need experience across all of these areas to apply.</p> <ul> <li>Commodity and energy trading, risk management, market analysis, commercial operations or trading support functions.</li> <li>Trading transformation initiatives, helping organisations improve processes, systems and ways of working across the front-to-back trading lifecycle.</li> <li>Data, analytics and emerging AI-enabled use cases within trading environments.</li> <li>ETRM/CTRM platforms and supporting technologies, including business analysis, requirements gathering, testing, implementation or continuous improvement activities.</li> <li>Market, credit, operational or regulatory risk topics, with an interest in helping trading organisations strengthen governance, controls and performance.</li> </ul> <p>Depending on your experience and interests, you may also bring skills in one or more of the following areas:</p> <ul> <li>Business analysis, problem solving and transformation delivery experience.</li> <li>Strong analytical skills, including data analysis and visualisation.</li> <li>Experience working with business and technology stakeholders to deliver practical solutions.</li> <li>An interest in data, analytics, AI and digital technologies within commodity and energy trading.</li> <li>Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate ownership of workstreams, adapt quickly to complex situations, and thrive in client-facing environments.</li> <li>Professional proficiency in German and English is required for this role.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="none">What a career at Baringa will give you</span>&nbsp;</span></h2> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="none"><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);">Putting</span> </span><span data-contrast="none"><span style="color: rgb(208, 0, 111);">People</span> </span><span style=&