Digital Transformation Portfolio Advisor

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.

Our Technology team are looking for an experienced Digital Transformation Portfolio Senior Advisor - 9 month FTC to join the team. 

As a Senior Advisor in Digital Transformation Portfolio, you will work across Technology & Cyber and Business Enablement to turn complex business needs into well-defined, prioritised and deliverable change. The role combines business analysis, process improvement, project and change delivery, demand management and portfolio governance.

You will own and progress a varied set of initiatives from early discovery and scoping through planning, implementation and adoption. You will act as a bridge between business stakeholders and Technology & Cyber teams, bringing structure to ambiguity, coordinating specialist input and ensuring that proposed changes are practical, governed and aligned to agreed outcomes.

You will also help improve the team’s portfolio and demand management processes, data and tooling, particularly ServiceNow and Azure DevOps, so that decisions and delivery are supported by clear, reliable information.

What you will be doing

• Lead discovery and scoping for technology-enabled and operational change, clarifying the problem, desired outcomes, scope, stakeholders, constraints, dependencies and measures of success.
• Gather, analyse and validate business requirements through process analysis, data review and stakeholder engagement.
• Translate business needs into clear delivery artefacts, including options assessments, process maps, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, scope documents and implementation plans.
• Evaluate processes, to define clear ownership, opportunities for simplification, automation or AI enablement.
• Coordinate stakeholders, product owners, project managers, technical teams and subject matter experts to maintain momentum, resolve blockers and keep delivery aligned.
• Support the technology demand management framework from intake and triage through assessment, prioritisation, approval and transition into delivery.
• Support prioritisation and capacity discussions by providing structured information on business value, strategic alignment, risk, effort, dependencies and readiness.
• Support portfolio-level reporting of initiatives including pipeline, capacity and benefits reporting, using data and trend analysis to surface delivery concerns and inform decisions. 

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience in business analysis, transformation delivery, project delivery or a blended role within large-scale technology or business transformation
• Experience identifying, validating and scoping technology-enabled improvement opportunities, including automation and AI-enabled change
• High ownership and accountability, with the ability to manage competing priorities, operate effectively in ambiguity and maintain momentum in a fast-changing environment
• Experience with portfolio and demand management frameworks, prioritisation models, capacity planning and benefits tracking.
• A collaborative, kind and inclusive working style, with a continuous improvement mindset and a focus on delivering sustainable outcomes.

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.

Join us

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.

Baringa Privacy Notices

For UK & EU

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com

For the USA

Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact privacy@baringa.com

For Australia & Singapore

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com