Senior Manager, Digital Risk & Cyber

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 2000 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 Baringas 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 aGreat 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 Worlds Best Management Consulting Firms.

The Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack cost the company 196m and had a 1.9bn impact on the UK economy. The damage wasnt a data breach it was an attack on the connected technology that runs the business. We protect the things which underpin our daily lives: energy water payments banking hospitals and critical public services and the supply chains behind them.

We dont just advise clients; we design build and stand up the frameworks operating models and tooling that keep working long after we leave.

Were a specialist team scaling fast and were independent by design: no software to resell no audit relationship to protect so nothing shapes our advice except the problem in front of you.

We work in small senior teams so you own real client relationships and real commercial outcomes from day one. Were looking for Senior Managers who want to be the name clients ask for and the market knows. This is a role for people who want to win and deliver work while they build a practice: originating opportunities leading complex engagements and growing the reputations theirs and ours that open the next door.

Our Digital Risk and Cyber (DRC) team helps clients secure the things that matter most from their overall security strategy and operating model to the specific technologies that drive value in their business. Our work is organised around two specialisms:

• Digital Resilience: helping clients meet fast-moving security resilience and regulatory obligations such as the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) the EUs Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and EU AI Act and the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.
• Digital Trust: helping clients govern emerging technology and security risk including AI cloud and post-quantum cryptography.

We also build security into our clients biggest change and transformation programmes and run the regulatory and standards compliance work that underpins their operations.

We are independent by design. With no software to resell and no audit relationship to protect our people can give a genuinely honest view and be trusted advisors in the truest sense.

• Win the work: Originate scope and close opportunities building pipeline shaping proposals and taking personal accountability for a share of the practices growth.

• Lead the work: Run complex multi-workstream engagements as the senior expert clients trust setting direction owning the commercials and being accountable for quality and impact.

• Lead the people: Build motivate and stretch delivery teams coaching Consultants Senior Consultants and Managers and making Baringa a place strong people want to stay.

• Own the relationships: Build and hold trusted relationships at CISO and executive level turning single engagements into lasting accounts.

• Be the expert others seek out: Become a recognised SME Internally and in the market through points of view speaking and content that open specific client conversations.

• Build the business: Contribute to our propositions our go-to-market and our talent taking a real stake in how fast we grow as a member of the team building the practice not just running engagements.

We care more about the shape of your experience than a checklist. If most of the following sound like you wed like to hear from you:

• A track record of winning work: Demonstrable experience originating and closing cyber resilience or digital risk work building pipeline shaping bids and owning a personal sales contribution.
• Engagement leadership: The credibility to lead complex multi-workstream engagements as a senior expert balancing deep cyber knowledge with commercial and stakeholder judgement.
• People leadership: Experience leading and developing mixed delivery teams and coaching others to perform.
• Senior client relationships: A network you can activate and the ability to build trusted relationships at CISO and board level.
• Digital risk and cyber depth: A strong track record in digital risk cyber security or resilience gained in consulting or in-house and a clear view on where the market is heading DORA the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill CAF AI and cloud risk.
• Technology and AI literacy: Fluency in or real curiosity about using AI to deliver and advising clients on securing and governing it.
• Depth in one or more of our domains: Meaningful experience in at least one area we operate in particularly OT/ICS security CAF AI security and governance post-quantum and cryptographic agility or operational resilience.

• Certifications: For example CISSP CCSP or AIGP a plus but no substitute for real-world experience.
• Building tooling and automation:Hands-on with building not just using for example agentic AI Power BI Power Apps risk quantification models or digital twins.

• 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 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. Weve 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 companys success.

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.

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 hereto see some of our recent awards and how weve achieved this.

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 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.

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation nationality disability age faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

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