Freight and Shipping Trading - #2075157

About Baringa

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Commodity and Energy Trading practice is looking for individuals at all levels of experience to join the team in Germany.

Our commodities and energy trading focused team operates across major shipping companies and commodity charterers. The freight and shipping trading industry is at a pivotal moment, facing the challenge of decarbonization while ensuring the continuity of global trade. As regulatory demands for sustainability intensify, the industry must transition to greener fuels and innovative technologies, navigating complex financial and operational hurdles.

We work with clients to help them to translate strategy into action, to enter new markets, build new capabilities, and to revolutionize their trading businesses and IT landscapes. We’re looking for people to join our growing team who have a passion for freight and shipping trading, and for collaborating with clients face to face to help solve their key challenges. You'll be involved in strategically significant client transformation projects, primarily in the UK and Europe, with opportunities to work on global initiatives.

What You Will Be Doing

From designing target operating models for trading companies, through to implementing integrated shipping and chartering solutions. Here are some examples of projects we typically get involved in: 

• Trading systems transformations: Implementations, upgrades and system selections for market leading trading organisations including new and innovative products. 
• Business restructuring: Designing and implementing operating models for complex global organisations that cover the full trading and commodity lifecycle. 
• Digital Transformation: Working with clients to mature their digital capabilities and embed ML and AI into their architectures, including improving commercial decision making and the trader decision support tooling in use.
• Risk Advisory: Helping organisations to strengthen their risk management frameworks; analyse and design their risk mitigation strategies; improve governance and reporting; and the implementation of best practice solutions for risk management.
  
  

Your Skills And Experience

We’re looking for people across all different levels of experience, from senior consultants with a few years under the belt to experienced senior managers and directors with several years of project delivery experience.

A well-rounded candidate should demonstrate a balance of strengths across three key areas:

• Trading Knowledge: Expertise in different areas of freight and shipping, including marine freight markets, the supply-demand balance for shipping capacity, key trade routes, and the impact of economic cycles on freight rates. Familiarity with different types of shipping contracts would also be useful, such as Time Charter (TC), Voyage Charter, and Bareboat Charter. Understanding of terms like demurrage, laytime, boil-off gas and dead freight.
• Business Analyst Skills: Proven ability to analyze and shape business processes and solutions. This includes identifying and capturing business problems, understanding value drivers, and defining both functional and non-functional requirements to deliver impactful solutions.
• Project Delivery Skills: A strong track record of managing and delivering projects across their full lifecycle, from inception to completion. Candidates should demonstrate adaptability and effectiveness in various roles within the Software Development Life Cycle.
  
  

Additionally, We Value Candidates With Expertise In

• Digital Transformation: Experience in the development and delivery of digital trading consulting capabilities, including data-driven trading.
• Data Strategy and Management: Strong skills in developing and implementing data strategies, including data architecture, governance, and management, to enable better decision-making.
• Essential: advanced (C1) language skills in German and English.
  
  

Role

As a consulting firm, we offer client-facing roles, which require candidates to thrive in dynamic environments and build strong relationships. For senior positions, we also expect:

• Project/Program Management: Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects or programs, including managing cross-functional teams, timelines, and budgets, using methodologies such as Agile.
• Leadership and Client Ownership: The ability to take ownership of client relationships, deliver results in client-facing environments, and effectively manage senior stakeholders.
  
  

What a Career At Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First.

Benefits

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.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• 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.

At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.

We’re proud of our recent exploration of kindness and its role in business in our first-ever brand campaign: Economics of Kindness . You can see some additional recent impact work by clicking here .

Join us

All applications will receive consideration 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 .