Manager – Strategy & Transactions - Bioenergy

Our Markets and Transactions practice are looking for an experienced Manager to join the team. 

You will be joining our dynamic and growing Advisory practice. We work with a range of clients from across the energy value chain, covering generators and developers, integrated energy companies, policy makers, institutional investors and lenders, to help them successfully navigate the energy transition. Baringa is differentiated through its ability to leverage a fundamental understanding of the market, technical, commercial and regulatory drivers of value and risk to help clients develop projects, deploy capital, or launch new products and services that help decarbonise our economy. This is an opportunity to build out our transactions and strategy offering in biomethane and bioenergy while advising leading energy companies, developers, infrastructure owners, investors and lenders. You will lead high-impact client work, shape our insights and play a leading role in scaling the proposition.

What you will be doing

• Lead strategy advisory: Leveraging our industry-trusted bioenergy market insights and proprietary analysis, take day-to-day ownership of engagements spanning investment strategy, market entry, commercial structuring, and regulatory reviews across biomethane, waste-to-energy and wider bioenergy vectors.
• Support transactions: Run buy side and sell side commercial due diligence, vendor commercial due diligence and bid support, working closely with corporate, infrastructure and private equity clients.
• Develop our bioenergy offering: Support the continued growth of our advisory in biomethane, waste-to-energy, and related bioenergy vectors, collaborating across modelling capabilities and commercial, technical, and regulatory advisory teams to bring the best of Baringa.
• Develop the team: Coach and develop junior colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration, support, high performance and continuous improvement.
• Develop and manage client relationships: Help manage and deepen existing client relationships while building new ones, and deliver high-impact strategic and commercial propositions.
• Support business development: Contribute to proposals, brand building and origination of new opportunities in the biomethane and wider bioenergy sector.
• Deliver high-quality engagements: Ensure excellence in project delivery and client management, including quality assurance, financial management and commercial oversight. 

Your skills and experience

• Professional experience: approximately 5+ years of professional experience in the energy sector, ideally with emphasis on bioenergy, gained as a strategy consultant or M&A advisor, in corporate development or M&A within an energy company, or as a principal investor in a private equity or infrastructure fund.
• Strategy and transactions: Experience supporting growth strategy, market entry, technical and/or commercial due diligence and other transaction-related engagements within bioenergy or related sectors.
• Bioenergy sector understanding: A fundamental understanding of bioenergy markets, with preference for depth on biomethane and a working knowledge of waste-to-energy and other bioenergy vectors, including demand drivers, feedstock dynamics and regulation.
• Commercial and regulatory acumen: Familiarity with commercial structuring (e.g. offtake and feedstock supply agreements) and the regulatory/subsidy frameworks relevant to biomethane and bioenergy.
• Project leadership:
• Analytical excellence: Strong analytical skills with the capability to develop hypotheses and draw conclusions within tight timeframes.
• Client relationship management: Ability to build trusted client relationships, operate effectively in client-facing environments and engage confidently with senior stakeholders. 

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa 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:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We 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. 

An award-winning workplace

You 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. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We 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 organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We 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 organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.