Senior Product Manager

Ready for a new challenge? Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?

If so,
Opencast
could be the place for you. We're a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

The role

As a
Senior Consultant Product Manager,
you'll work on complex business challenges to help deliver solutions that deliver our clients' goals. You will develop an understanding of those goals to define products and their priority features.

You'll design, support and lead discovery and ideation workshops with clients and internal teams to devise innovative and impactful solutions. You'll be responsible for managing relationships with stakeholders and development teams.

You'll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

To succeed as a senior consultant product manager, you will need to demonstrate a breadth and depth of experience working in product management roles, on complex projects, across the full product lifecycle in different sectors.

You will have in-depth knowledge of software development, with experience in agile and user-centred design.

In your CV and the interview, you should show how you have:

• Led cross-functional, agile teams to deliver successful products
• Developed product visions, minimum viable products and roadmaps, understanding business problems and contexts
• Communicated objectives, plans and progress to a range of stakeholders
• Used boundary objects to synthesise many different perspectives
• Facilitated conversations to align large groups of diverse stakeholders
• Cultivated high performing, constructive and trusting team environments

As well as product management skills, there are other essential skills you'll need to be an effective senior consultant.

In your CV, please show how you have:

• Methodically solved complex problems across a range of contexts and environments
• Taken the lead on projects, setting tasks and objectives to get the best out of others
• Adapted ways of working to suit the specific needs of projects
• Supported the development of others through coaching and/or mentoring

Desirable experience

There are some areas of experience which are not essential but are relevant to this role.

If you don't have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas when you join us:

• The Service Standard (UK Government)
• Active contribution in wider product community events and workshops
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or agile delivery management

In the interview we'll ask you to that demonstrates this experience. We'll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £60,000 - £80,000

What our offer includes

• A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
• Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday.
• People to support you every step of the way.

Where you'll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We'll make any adjustments to help you.