Energy Networks - Manager

About the role You own complex energy network projects from first contact through final rollout. You design operating models and digitisation for utilities under strict timelines. You guide clients through uncertainty while protecting service reliability. Key facts

Location: UK

Engagement: Consulting, energy networks transformation

Compensation: 80,000 to 100,000 GBP yearly What you'll do Orchestrating intake conversations to clarify scope, constraints, and client expectations for network initiatives. Building integrated solutions that connect asset management, capital delivery, and digital tools for field teams. Reviewing governance, data quality, and performance metrics to align operating model with strategic targets. Shipping technology-enabled changes that improve resilience, reliability, and measurable consumer outcomes. Partnering with utilities, regulators, and vendors to mobilise field forces and sustain long term capability. Leading workstreams that link policy, regulation, and strategy to practical implementation on network corridors. Translating business needs into clear requirements for engineers, data specialists, and technology vendors. Championing pragmatic digital and AI tools that enhance asset decisions without disrupting live operations. Requirements You must have three to five years managing energy networks or infrastructure transformation engagements. You should understand capital delivery, asset management, and regulatory context for electricity or gas networks. You need experience applying data and digital tools to improve field operations and decision making. You must communicate clearly with technical teams, executives, and external partners under pressure. Nice to have Experience working directly with UK electricity and gas network operators and policy makers. Skills & tools Data analysis, AI, digital tools, operating model design, energy networks, financial insight, stakeholder management. Practical notes Hours may vary around critical project milestones; some travel within UK may be required; eligibility to work in the UK is necessary. 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. About our Energy & Resources practice Baringa's Energy & Resources Sector partners with clients across the energy value chain to navigate uncertainty and deliver one of the world's most critical challenges: the energy transition. Combining deep sector expertise with commercial and regulatory insight, we support organisations to decarbonise, secure energy supply, and unlock value from new technologies and markets. We're proud to be recognised externally, with Baringa ranked Gold in Energy, Utilities and Environment in the Financial Times 2026 rankings, a position we have held every year since 2020 as well as being rated among the world's best management consultancies by Forbes. Our Energy Networks practice are looking for Consultants at Manager level, to join the team. Our UK Energy Networks team works with every electricity and gas network in the UK, supporting clients across the full lifecycle - from policy and regulation through to strategy, operating model, and delivery. As the sector accelerates investment to enable net zero, networks are shifting from primarily managing assets to building and modernising them at pace, while also digitising operations and adopting AI in a business-case-led way. We help clients strengthen capital delivery and asset management, mobilise field forces, and deliver technology-enabled transformation that improves resilience, performance and consumer value. Our UK activities have quadrupled in the last 5 years, to the point where we are now recognised as a leading consultancy on all things energy networks for network utilities, policy makers and investors. We need to continue to grow our ever-expanding team of energy network experts - with a particular focus on transformation of network operations from asset management and capital delivery to digitalisation and operational transformation that it enables. What you will be doing You will deliver client engagements across networks capital delivery and asset management, helping clients plan, build and operate critical infrastructure. You will shape and deliver operating model improvements across people, process and technology, including governance, ways of working and performance management. You will help clients deploy leading-edge digital and AI solutions in a pragmatic, business-case-led way (e.g., digitising field operations, improving asset data, and enabling better decision-making). You will work with client and partner teams to mobilise delivery - from defining the problem to landing change on the ground with engineers and field forces. You will manage complex delivery timelines and interfaces between policy, regulation, and strategy to practical