Manager, Enterprise Value Creation

About the role

This role guides enterprise value initiatives for clients, aligning strategic, operational, and financial objectives with sustainable profit and growth improvements. The position supports multiple industry sectors and integrates cross-functional expertise to address complex client challenges. You will own the end-to-end delivery of value creation programs, ensuring that strategic recommendations translate into measurable operational and financial outcomes. A core part of this role involves synthesizing data, financial performance metrics, and market insights to design robust strategies that enhance gross margin, optimize SG&A costs, and refine pricing models. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, translating complex analytical work into compelling narratives and actionable roadmaps. Success in this position requires a proactive approach to identifying value pools and prioritizing initiatives that deliver the highest impact on the client's enterprise value. You will be accountable for translating ambiguous business problems into structured hypotheses and testing them rigorously to ensure solution integrity. This role demands a balance of analytical rigor and commercial acumen to drive sustainable change.

Key facts

What you'll do

You translate client challenges into value creation strategies that drive top-line growth and margin improvement. You build client capability so organizations can sustain value creation and repeat improvements independently. Coaching and mentoring junior team members helps them reach their potential and perform effectively in client settings. Collaboration across cross-functional Baringa teams ensures integrated solutions that position the firm as a market leader. You conduct commercial due diligence and profitability analysis to uncover opportunities for margin enhancement and cost optimization. You leverage advanced data and analytics to inform strategic decisions and validate the financial impact of proposed initiatives. You develop and scale value creation capabilities, teams, and assets within a consulting environment to meet evolving client demands. You implement solutions that deliver tangible client benefits and influence long-term performance through structured problem solving. You communicate with senior stakeholders and manage relationships and presentations to ensure alignment and executive sponsorship. You own outcomes and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments while maintaining a high standard of quality and timeliness.

Requirements

The posting states a bachelor's degree requirement. You deliver value creation programs focused on gross margin, SG&A cost reduction, pricing, profitability, and commercial due diligence. You bring experience in at least one of Baringa's industry sectors, including Financial Services, Products & Services, or Energy & Resources. You develop and scale value creation capabilities, teams, and assets within a consulting environment. You implement solutions that deliver tangible client benefits and influence long-term performance. You hold ACA/CIMA certification with an Accounting degree or P&L management experience. You own outcomes and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments. You coach teams and deliver training to colleagues and clients to elevate capability and performance. You communicate with senior stakeholders and manage relationships and presentations with clarity and confidence. You adhere to the People First culture by promoting wellbeing, flexibility, and inclusion in all interactions. You comply with standard US work authorization requirements as this role is based in New York.

Practical notes

This role requires a degree and professional accounting certification. The position is based in New York, with standard US work authorization requirements. You will join a People First culture that emphasizes wellbeing, flexibility, and inclusion. Typical interview steps

Interviews in this field typically test judgment, communication, and fit as much as technical skill. Be ready to describe a challenge you faced, what you did, and what you learned. Most companies value honest answers over polished ones. Whatever the role, preparation is visible. Reviewing the company's product, the job description, and your own past work before the conversation is the strongest step.

Good to know

The role uses advanced data, analytics, and digital tools to inform strategy. Consulting work spans strategy, transformation, and operational excellence. The firm emphasizes structured problem solving combined with empathetic execution. Career growth depends on delivering measurable client value and developing team capabilities.

Questions to ask

Useful questions for the interview: what a typical week looks like, how work is assigned, what tools the team uses, and how feedback works. Asking how the role has changed recently and what the team wishes it had known when joining is also reasonable. Questions about the manager's priorities are especially valued.

Career growth

Career growth comes from taking on harder problems and making your work visible. Look for opportunities to own outcomes, mentor others, and learn the business beyond your team. Growth in any career comes from scope, results, and reputation. Take on work that is slightly uncomfortable, and make sure others can see the outcomes.