Senior Manager- Asset Management and Operations

<div class=&quot;content-intro&quot;><h3><span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;>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=&quot;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 53, 142);&quot;><span data-contrast=&quot;none&quot;>Our Transition, Assets and Infrastructure practice are looking for an experienced Manager or Senior Manager to join the team.</span>&nbsp;</span></h2> <p>Our Asset &amp; Operations Excellence teams help energy, utilities and industrial clients get more from their physical assets – improving safety, reliability, availability and whole-life cost across the asset lifecycle. We combine deep asset management and engineering expertise with modern enterprise asset management technology and data to help clients move from reactive maintenance to intelligent, insight-led asset management. From shaping maintenance and reliability strategy to implementing platforms such as IBM Maximo and connecting operational technology (OT) with core information technology (IT), we help asset-intensive organisations run their networks and plant more safely, sustainably and cost-effectively.</p> <h3><span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 53, 142);&quot;><span data-contrast=&quot;none&quot;>What you will be doing</span></span></h3> <ul> <li>You ll lead the design and delivery of asset management and operational transformations and improvement programs for asset-intensive clients across energy, utilities and major infrastructure companies – including current-state assessment and target operating model design through to implementation and adoption.</li> <li>You will help clients shift to risk/condition based and predictive maintenance strategies driving improvements in asset performance across the whole asset lifecycle.</li> <li>You ll lead providing advisory services related to and optimisation of EAM / CMMS platforms such as IBM Maximo – shaping user requirements, configuration, data migration and integrations with ERP, SCADA, condition monitoring platforms.</li> <li>You ll bring IT and OT together – defining how asset systems, data and cyber-security governance operate end-to-end, and establishing change control, data ownership (RACI) and support models that keep critical systems reliable and secure.</li> <li>You will help clients plan and shape the overall digital, technology, AI landscape for asset optimisation</li> <li>You ll manage day-to-day client relationships and, at Manager / Senior Manager level, hold commercial and delivery accountability for engagements – owning scope, risk, quality and margin.</li> <li>You ll build and coach high-performing teams, developing junior colleagues and creating an inclusive, People First environment.</li> <li>You ll help grow our rapidly expanding asset management and operations practice – shaping propositions, contributing to proposals and building trusted, lasting client relationships.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h3><span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 53, 142);&quot;><span data-contrast=&quot;none&quot;>Your skills and experience</span></span></h3> <ul> <li>You ve built your career in asset management or asset-intensive operations – in energy, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing or a comparable sector – with a strong grounding in asset lifecycle management and maintenance and reliability principles.</li> <li>You ve hands-on experience of Enterprise Asset Management and CMMS platforms such as IBM Maximo, (which may include implementation, configuration or product ownership)</li> <li>You understand how asset management systems connect to the wider technology landscape – ERP, SCADA, condition-based monitoring, data historians and asset / master data – and you can bridge IT and OT to make that ecosystem work.</li> <li>You ve a strong appreciation of OT/IT integration and change governance – management of change, change control boards, data governance and RACI, and tiered (L1–L3) support models for critical asset systems.</li> <li>You ve delivered change in a consulting, transformation or major-programme environment, comfortable owning workstreams, managing senior stakeholders and turning analysis into practical outcomes that stick.</li> <li>You ve excellent analytical, communication and facilitation skills, and you re confident leading workshops and engaging senior client stakeholders.</li> <li>You will have an understanding on how emergent technologies and Artificial Intelligence