Product Manager – Senior Consultant

hackajob is collaborating with Opencast Software to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Ready to design products and services that make a difference? Do you want to create products that make a meaningful impact? Are you ready to lead strategy and delivery on projects that reach large audiences? 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, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses.

As a Product Manager, you’ll lead product strategy and delivery, balancing user needs and business goals across sectors, to create services that are used by millions of UK citizens.

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. 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.

Requirements:

• 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.
• You must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
• 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.

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:

• 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

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 flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer 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 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.

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:

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 following the interview; 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.