Senior Product Manager in Birmingham

The role involves working on complex business challenges to help deliver solutions that meet our clients' goals. You will develop an understanding of those goals to define products and their priority features. Responsibilities include designing, supporting, and leading discovery and ideation workshops with clients and internal teams to devise innovative and impactful solutions. You will manage relationships with stakeholders and development teams, ensuring 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.

Requirements:

• This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel to client sites in Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester.
• We’re looking for people who value in-person collaboration, enjoy building strong relationships, and are passionate about delivering solutions that make a real difference for our clients.
• You must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
• Typically, applicants must have UK citizenship and have lived continuously in the UK for at least the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days.

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.

Product Management Experience:

• 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.

Consultant Skills:

• 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.

Additional Experience:

• Experience with 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.

Salary: Senior consultant salary range: £60,000 - £70,000.

What we offer: A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from 25 days’ holiday and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We provide wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you’ll work: This role requires regular on-site attendance at our HQ, hub offices, and client sites, as well as the ability to work from home. Applicants must be able to travel to offices and client sites across the UK as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential for fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

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.

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.