Product Manager

Location: Hybrid – North of England (Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester)

Employment Type: Full-time

Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Product Manager (Consultant level) to lead the strategy and delivery of user-centred digital products and services with large-scale public impact. This role sits within a growing technology consultancy environment and involves working on complex, high-profile programmes across sectors such as government, healthcare, and purpose-driven organisations.

You will play a key role in defining product vision, shaping delivery, and balancing user needs with business and policy objectives. The role is well suited to an experienced product leader who enjoys working across discovery and delivery, influencing stakeholders, and leading multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and end-to-end delivery across complex digital initiatives.
• Develop a deep understanding of client goals to define products, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Design, facilitate, and lead discovery, ideation, and prioritisation workshops with clients and internal teams.
• Manage relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery teams, and external partners.
• Guide agile, cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle, from discovery to live service and iteration.
• Ensure delivery aligns with agreed quality, environmental, information security, and governance standards while working on client engagements.

Requirements

• Extensive experience working in product management roles across the full product lifecycle on complex projects.
• Strong knowledge of software development practices, including agile delivery and user-centred design.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary, agile teams to deliver successful digital products.
• Proven ability to define product vision, minimum viable products, and roadmaps within complex business contexts.
• Strong communication skills, with experience presenting objectives, plans, and progress to diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating alignment across large and varied stakeholder communities.
• Ability to foster high-performing, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environments.
• Demonstrable experience delivering digital services within UK central government, aligned to GDS and UK Service Standard guidelines.
• Structured and methodical approach to solving complex problems across varied environments.
• Experience taking ownership of projects, setting direction, and enabling others to perform at their best.
• Adaptability in ways of working to suit differing client, team, and delivery needs.
• Experience supporting the development of others through coaching and/or mentoring.
• Active participation in the wider product management community through events, workshops, or knowledge sharing.
• Experience or working knowledge of business analysis and/or agile delivery management.

Security & Location Requirements

• Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester due to collaboration and travel requirements.
• Applicants must either hold active UK Security Clearance (SC) or meet eligibility criteria, including UK citizenship and continuous UK residence for the past five years.
• Flexible hybrid working model combining home, office, and client-site working.
• Opportunity to work on nationally significant digital services used by large audiences.
• Collaborative, inclusive consulting environment with a strong focus on learning and professional growth.

Application Process

Interviews will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. Reasonable adjustments are available to ensure an inclusive recruitment process.