Head of Learning & Development

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.

This is an exciting time to join Baringa as we continue to grow and strengthen the way we support our people to learn, develop and thrive. We have strong L&D foundations and a newly developed learning strategy in place; now we’re looking for a commercially minded, forward-thinking leader who can bring that strategy to life and turn it into meaningful business impact. This role is about more than learning content design. It is about building a stronger learning culture: increasing engagement with our existing programmes, influencing senior leaders to prioritise development, shaping our approach to digital and AI-enabled learning, and leading a high-performing L&D function. As the lead for a strategic people area, this role will be part of our People Leadership Team.

• Own our global learning strategy, leading its implementation and ensuring it stays closely aligned to Baringa’s growth, commercial priorities and people-first culture.
• Work in partnership with senior leaders, HRBPs and internal technical experts to identify the strategic capabilities we need to grow and remain competitive as a tech-savvy consultancy, particularly across digital, AI, software and new ways of working.
• Use data and insight to understand current and future capability gaps, focusing learning investment where it will make the biggest difference.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner and credible learning expert to senior stakeholders, influencing priorities and helping leaders take ownership of learning outcomes.
• Stay close to external trends in learning, technology, consulting and AI, bringing fresh thinking and practical recommendations to continuously improve our L&D offer.

• Increase engagement, participation and utilisation across Baringa’s learning offer, ensuring learning is visible, accessible and valued across the firm.
• Partner with leaders to remove barriers to learning, especially where client delivery and utilisation pressures can make development harder to prioritise.
• Embed learning into the flow of work through practical, scalable approaches that reflect the pace and demands of a consulting and professional services environment.
• Connect the L&D offer clearly to career development pathways, helping colleagues build the skills, confidence and experiences they need to grow.
• Work closely with the Head of Leadership Development and wider People teams to ensure learning, leadership development, talent and broader people priorities feel joined up and easy to navigate.
• Curate, deploy and continually improve existing learning solutions, designing new interventions only where there is a clear business need and measurable value.

• Develop and implement scalable digital and AI-enabled learning strategies that keep our learning offer relevant, practical and future-fit.
• Provide strategic oversight and sponsorship of the L&D technology roadmap, ensuring investment decisions, priorities and digital learning capabilities align with the firm's learning strategy and business objectives.
• Ensure L&D operations are efficient, scalable and responsive to the needs of the firm, Leadership Development and wider People teams.
• Provide clear reporting on learning programmes, platforms, adoption, outcomes, employee progress and wider development activity.

• Lead, stabilise and grow a high-performing L&D function, creating a clear vision, roadmap and operating rhythm for the team.
• Build engagement, resilience and trust, providing strong leadership, coaching and development for senior specialists and people leaders through a period of growth and change.
• Define and track meaningful measures of learning effectiveness, adoption, business impact and return on investment.
• Ensure the L&D team has clear goals, priorities and ways of working that connect directly to the L&D strategy, People priorities and wider organisational outcomes.
• Prioritise team capacity in line with firm priorities, learning impact, operational demand and future growth of the function.
• Manage the L&D budget, balancing cost-effective resource allocation with high-quality, high-impact learning solutions.
• Play an active role in our People Leadership Team and be a visible, collaborative leader across the wider People team.

• Strategic L&D leadership: You have senior experience creating, implementing and evolving learning strategies that build organisational capability and deliver business impact.
• Commercial and professional services understanding: You understand consulting or professional services environments, including client delivery pressures and the need for pragmatic, high-impact learning solutions.
• Senior stakeholder influence: You are credible at executive level and confident influencing leaders, navigating trade-offs and helping stakeholders take accountability for learning outcomes.
• Learning adoption and culture change: You have a track record of increasing participation, embedding learning into ways of working and driving behavioural or cultural change across an organisation.
• Digital and AI-enabled learning: You bring experience developing digital learning strategies and scalable approaches to AI-enabled learning in a fast-changing technology environment.
• Leadership and team management: You are an experienced people leader who can build, stabilise and develop high-performing teams through change, growth and ambiguity.
• Technology and operations: You are comfortable working with L&D platforms, digital ecosystems, operational delivery and supplier management, with a focus on scalability and user experience.
• Data, insight and impact: You can define meaningful measures, use data to evaluate adoption and effectiveness, and tell a clear story about the value and impact of learning.
• Programme and change management: You are confident delivering complex learning initiatives on time, within budget and with clear outcomes.
• Collaborative, emotionally intelligent leadership: You build trust quickly, coach and develop others, and work well across teams with warmth, resilience and sound judgement.

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 here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve 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 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.

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.

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