Product Manager - Consultant

You'll work with technical teams and stakeholders to develop solutions that deliver our clients' strategic goals. You'll work in agile teams alongside people in a range of roles spanning design, development, and research. You'll help deliver the vision, helping to decide the features that each product needs and manage backlogs to meet our client preferences. You'll deliver discovery and ideation workshops across diverse groups of stakeholders. 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.

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

Location & Travel

This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their normal daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester. Attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves frequent local travel. Travel expenses are not covered. Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process. SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process. If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you will need to show a depth of experience working as a product manager, on complex projects across the product life cycle. You will need a good knowledge of software development and be familiar with agile processes and user-centred design. In your CV and the interview, you should show how you have:

• Developed and gained buy-in for product visions and minimum viable products
• Used service design tools to map and articulate the wider ecosystems around products
• Translated product roadmaps into backlogs to prioritise delivery
• Balanced the needs of senior stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills
• Contributed to constructive and trusting team environments

Core skills

As well as product management skills, there are essential core skills you'll need to be a great consultant. In your interview, please show how you have:

• Taken a methodical and considered approach to solving complex problems
• Planned your own tasks, to achieve the objectives of your project
• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don't agree with

Desirable experience

There are some areas of experience which are not essential, but they 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. If you have any of the following relevant experience, please show it on your CV and talk about it in the interview:

• The Service Standard (UK Government)
• Use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Attending 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 questions that demonstrate this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Role details

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

About Opencast

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. 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 process

An Initial Chat with a member of our Talent Team. Your CV will be reviewed by one of our Interviewers. 1 hour with our technical and values interviewers. We will share feedback; if successful, we will progress to an Offer. Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

Compensation & Benefits

Consultant salary range: £50,000-£59,000

What we offer

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. Flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days' holiday, and access to 3 annual "life happens" days to support unexpected situations. Wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.