Energy Networks - Manager

Baringa

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 WATER PRACTICE ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED CONSULTANTS TO SENIOR MANAGERS TO JOIN THE TEAM.  Our Retail, Networks and Water division helps regulated utilities and adjacent organisations improve performance, deliver transformation, and strengthen outcomes for customers. We’re at the heart of these industries, driving meaningful and lasting improvement.  This is an incredibly important period for our Water clients. Following final determinations, we expect a sustained period of significant transformation set against the context of rising bills and increasing customer financial vulnerability. As we already work with most of these organisations, Baringa is well positioned to help Water Retailers to successfully plan for and navigate these challenges.  Within our Water practice, the Water Retail and Customer Value and Affordability team supports clients to protect their most financially vulnerable customers whilst improving value across the customer lifecycle, with a focus on billing and revenue improvement, debt and affordability, and operational effectiveness in customer-facing functions.  WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING * Helping clients to understand their customers holistically, and how those that are most in need can be supported  * Work with clients on their major strategic transformation programmes to improve their customer, debt, billing and revenue outcomes through senior strategic advice and thought leadership, data-driven diagnosis, process and journey improvement.  * Support or lead benchmarking and performance reviews, helping clients understand how they compare to peers and where to prioritise action.  * Take a leading role in customer and operational transformation programmes, supporting planning, governance, risk management and senior stakeholder engagement.  * Develop and apply analytical insight, including segmentation, forecasting and KPI reporting, to support better decisions and track impact.  * Work alongside technology and system change, helping ensure business requirements are clear and operational outcomes are delivered.  * Contribute to business development, including proposals, client conversations, thought leadership or reusable assets in Water Retail and Customer Value Assurance.  * You will take on responsibility in line with your experience:   * as a Consultant, owning defined analysis and deliverables, with accountability for quality and detail  * as a Senior Consultant, owning end‑to‑end workstreams and managing day‑to‑day client delivery  * as a Manager or Senior Manager, leading workstreams or engagements, managing teams, and taking accountability for outcomes, quality and client relationships    YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE  Must Haves * Experience working in customer value, debt, billing, revenue assurance or affordability , within water retail  operations, with a solid understanding of the underlying processes, common issues and levers.  * You’ve supported or delivered billing or revenue improvement initiatives, such as identifying revenue leakage, improving collections performance, or strengthening controls and governance.  * Experience using data and analysis to diagnose problems, build insight, and support clear recommendations and decisions.  * You’ve delivered process improvement or operating model work in customer or revenue-focused functions, with an emphasis on practical, implementable change.  * You will have worked with a range of stakeholders across operations, finance, digital and data teams, and can communicate confidently at different levels of an organisation.  * You’ve produced clear, structured client-facing outputs, including analysis, slides or written recommendations, with strong attention to quality and narrative.  Nice to Have  * You’ve contributed to, or led parts of, customer or operational transformation programmes, with exposure to planning, governance, risk management and delivery tracking.  * Experience working alongside billing, customer relationship management or collections system change, and understand how systems and operations interact.  * You’ve contributed to proposals, pitches or internal proposition development, helping articulate client problems, solution approaches and value.  * You will have experience developing others through informal coaching, review or line management (expected at Manager and Senior Manager level).    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

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Senior Product Manager, Banking Networks Adyen is a truly global company that processes billions in payments annually. Adyen's value goes beyond Ecommerce and In-Person payments with a broad offering of embedded payments and financial services like issuing, bank accounts, and capital; facilitated by Adyen's global banking licenses. Behind every one of these products sits a critical dependency: reliable, direct connectivity to the world's banking infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead and scale our global Banking Networks capabilities. You will lead the Banking Networks team responsible for integrating with banking partners worldwide, including banks, clearing houses, payment rails and providers (excluding North America, which is owned by a dedicated regional team). This role sits at the core of Adyen's financial products, owning the end-to-end processing of banking transactions across a wide variety of market infrastructures and use cases. You will build and maintain best-in-class banking connectivity that our financial products depend on, from local scheme integrations to real-time payment rails. You will work closely with Banking Products, Payouts, Payments, Merchant Finance, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Commercial, and Operational teams, as well as customers, to understand their needs and translate them into product enhancements together with the development team. What you'll do Set Vision & Strategy * Define Long-Term Strategy: Define and own the long-term vision and strategy for Adyen's global banking network, grounded in customer value and measurable business impact. * Translate Strategy into Roadmap: Translate market infrastructure opportunities and regulatory requirements into clear priorities, actionable roadmaps, and success metrics. * Simplify Ambiguity: Simplify a complex, fragmented space of local schemes, clearing houses, and payment rails by defining clear, actionable integration and capability use cases alongside your engineering and commercial teams. * Own Product Lifecycle: Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for banking network integrations and the underlying banking capabilities. Lead Through Influence * Act as Product Authority: Operate as the primary product authority for global banking networks across Adyen. * Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert on Adyen's core banking system, clearing and settlement flows, and the market infrastructures Adyen connects to. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Risk, Support, Sales, and Implementation teams to align our banking capabilities with evolving customer and regulatory needs. * Coordinate with the North America and Foundational teams: Align on shared standards, tooling, and roadmap dependencies to ensure a consistent global banking product. * Lead junior product managers in the team: Manage the focus and dedication (in functional matrix report) of the 2 PMs in the Banking Networks Global team. Build for Scale & Customer-Centric * Scale Banking Connectivity: Design and scale reliable integrations across diverse banking partners and payment rails, with a focus on markets outside North America. * Optimize System Performance: Collaborate with engineering to maximize the performance, reliability, and scalability of Adyen's core banking processing infrastructure. * Engage with Customers: Interact directly with customers, commercial teams, and partners to understand their pain points, gather feedback, and translate their needs into core product requirements. * Monitor & Iterate Performance: Monitor product metrics and identify continuous optimization opportunities to guarantee data accuracy, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. * End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of specific initiatives from initial scoping through final delivery, managing timelines and stakeholder expectations. Who you are * Experienced Product Leader: You have a minimum of 8 years of experience in product management or an adjacent function within a fintech or financial services environment focused on payments. You are customer centric and build for the benefit of all customers. * Proven Record in Banking Infrastructure: You have experience launching and scaling transactional banking products and have in-depth experience with at least one major market infrastructure (e.g., a clearing house, real-time payment rail, or banking scheme). * Strategic Thinker with a Hands-on Mentality: A self-starter with proven organizational and commercial strength. You have excellent project management skills and the ability to lead time-sensitive, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced environment with little supervision. You are able to challenge the status quo. * Analytical Problem Solver: You are naturally curious, data-driven, and comfortable navigating ambiguity. You excel at taking complex challenges and converting them into structured, actionable solutions for both internal and external stakeholders. * Humble, Curious, and a Quick Learner: You possess a strong sense of initiative and self-motivation. You are eager to dive deep into complex banking flows, financial data, and technical and regulatory constraints to proactively identify problems and propose long-term solutions. * Natural Communicator & Team Player: You have high energy and solid interpersonal skills, comfortable driving deep technical discussions with engineers and strategic commercial and operational alignments with stakeholders across varying disciplines and cultures. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

Hitachi Energy Sweden AB

The Opportunity Join HVDC as a Junior Project SCM Specialist! Bring your expertise to our innovative team at Hitachi Energy and help create a greener future with world-leading technology. HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) develops and sells DC transmission systems globally, used for long-distance electricity transmission and submarine cables. As part of our Global Supply Chain Management, you'll contribute to major infrastructure projects worldwide, working closely with end customers and enjoying vast career opportunities. If you thrive on complex projects and have a problem-solving and curious mindset, this role is for you! We value diversity and collaboration, ensuring everyone feels respected and included. Join us and make a difference! #diversity #genderequity #inclusion. How you´ll make an impact As Project SCM Specialist you will be the focal point between HVDC and our suppliers during the execution phase of our projects. You will work closely with Project SCM Managers, Logistic Planners, Engineers, Documentation Control and Suppliers follow up and secure that the equipment and documentation deliveries from our Suppliers is according to agreed time, cost and quality. You work in a team with other Project SCM Specialists and will take on equipment’s or project responsibility. During the project execution you need to ensure relentless execution with proactive planning and follow-up on all equipment deliveries with our suppliers and internal stakeholders. During project execution you will also drive, attend and provide information to kick-off and clarification meetings with suppliers. You will work closely with the Project SCM Manager to solve upcoming quality constraints or deficiencies with the supplier equipment deliveries. Living Hitachi Energy core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business. Your background You have an academic degree in a relevant field: Supply Chain Management, Business & Administration, or Engineering (or equivalent work experience). Preferably you have a couple years of relevant experience as working in close interaction with suppliers, negotiation and/or in commercial discussions. On a personal level, you are a collaborative and reliable team player with an independent and results oriented working style. You are communicative and good at building networks internally as well as externally. You should also have the ability to stay structured and organized even under pressure and when dealing with many tasks and stakeholders in parallel. You are fluent in English, both written and spoken; German is considered a strong advantage and highly meritorious, but not a requirement. What we offer Collective agreement Flexible working time Health care and wellness allowance Fantastic career possibilities within Hitachi Energy both within Sweden and globally Mentor to support you throughout onboard phase Various trainings and education supporting employee development Diversified company with over 70+ nationalities working in Sweden Supplementary compensation for parental leave Employee Benefit Portal with thousands of discounts and perks More information Our flexible working practices help you optimize personal and business performance while creating an environment where all employees can develop their skills and grow. Please note that the position is a 12‑month fixed‑term contract with the possibility of extension. This is a hybrid position where you will be based at the Ludvika or Västerås Hitachi Energy office, with the possibility of working from home up to a couple times per week. Recruiting Manager Maria Hedlund, maria.hedlund@hitachienergy.com will answer your questions about the position. Union representatives – Unionen - Fredrik Holmgren +46 107-38 21 85; SACO/Sveriges Ingenjörer - Mikael Hjort +46 107-38 29 86; Ledarna - Frank Hollstedt +46 10 7387043. All other questions can be directed to Talent Partner Eva Schölin, eva.scholin@hitachienergy.com