Manager, Central Government

As a Manager in our Central Government team, you will typically lead workstreams and teams on complex client engagements.

While no two projects are the same, examples of the work you might be involved in include:

Leading Baringa and blended client teams, setting direction and enabling high performance

Shaping engagement objectives, deliverables and success measures with clients

Translating complex challenges into clear delivery plans, workstreams and priorities

Managing stakeholders, resolving ambiguity and helping clients navigate delivery challenges

Ensuring the quality, coherence and impact of team outputs

Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders

Leading governance discussions and presenting recommendations to support decision-making

Helping clients understand strategic, political, fiscal and operational implications of different options

Identifying opportunities to create additional value beyond immediate project objectives

Depending on the engagement, you may help clients to:

Develop business cases, funding submissions and options appraisals

Analyse the impact of policy, operational or service changes

Design operating models, services and delivery approaches

Deliver large-scale transformation programmes

Improve operational performance and resilience

Lead commercial and procurement activities

Deliver digital, data, technology and AI-enabled change

Creating inclusive and collaborative team environments

Coaching, mentoring and developing colleagues

Providing constructive feedback and managing performance, wellbeing and capacity

Acting as an Advisor and supporting career development where applicable

Contributing to the development of our Central Government practice through knowledge sharing and communities of practice

Managing engagement commercials including forecasting, resourcing, billing and scope management

Leading or contributing to proposals, presentations and commercial models

Developing thought leadership and propositions aligned to government priorities

Building internal and external networks that support account and practice growth

Leading policy analysis, options appraisal or strategic decision support

Leading the development of public-sector business cases and funding submissions

Applying relevant government appraisal and evaluation guidance proportionately

Leading economic, financial, fiscal or cost modelling

Defining benefits, outcomes and evaluation approaches

Advising senior stakeholders on trade-offs and value for money

Mobilising and leading complex programmes, projects or PMO functions

Designing proportionate governance and controls

Managing interdependencies across organisations, suppliers or workstreams

Leading assurance, delivery recovery or programme reset activity

Establishing performance, benefits and outcome reporting

Managing transition into business as usual

Leading target operating-model design

Translating strategy and policy into implementable organisational change

Leading service and process transformation

Applying operational-excellence or systems-thinking approaches

Improving productivity, performance and resilience

Managing implementation and operational transition

Leading multidisciplinary digital or data-enabled transformation

Applying user-centred and service-standard principles

Leading business analysis, service design or requirements definition

Developing data strategies, governance arrangements or analytical solutions

Identifying, prioritising and implementing responsible AI use cases

Advising clients on adoption, controls, value and implementation risk

Working effectively in legacy, security-sensitive or highly controlled environments

Developing commercial and sourcing strategies

Leading market engagement and procurement activity

Creating evaluation approaches and governance

Mobilising contracts and managing strategic suppliers

Advising on commercial risk, value for money and contractual performance

Leading commercial operating-model or capability improvement

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.

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.

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For the USA

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For Australia & Singapore

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