Product Manager - Consultant
Description
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
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.
Requirements
This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: 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.
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 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. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process. We are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.
We are recruiting for multiple positions, with opportunities available immediately and in the coming months. If you are interested in joining Opencast, we encourage you to apply.
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.
- Recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
- 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
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
With a significant proportion of our client base in the public sector, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience working in central or local government and/or the NHS.
Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages, is a key requirement. If you have this experience, please demonstrate this on your CV to discuss at interview.
Essential consulting skills
In addition to business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be an Opencast consultant. You’ll need to demonstrate how you:
- Contribute to improving ways of working and driving continuous improvements within your teams.
- Share knowledge and best practice with fellow product managers and other disciplines, including proactively engaging in client and Opencast communities of practice.
- Positively challenge decisions or solutions you don’t agree with, striving for the best client outcomes.
- Create lasting value in the projects you work on, ensuring a user-centric, sustainable approach.
- Engage with Opencast in a meaningful way, supporting the growth of your practice and wider capability.
- Support Opencast's growth plans, by providing case studies and updates into the relevant forums of your project work.
During the interview process, we’ll ask questions to explore your experience across these areas.
In the interview we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
£50,000 - £59,000 per annum.
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 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
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email [email protected]
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- Are you eligible to work in the UK?
- Do you live within 45 miles of any of our hub locations (or within 80 miles if you are based in London)?
- Our Hybrid working policy means that your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team. - Are you happy to travel as part of our hybrid model?
- Are you looking for contract or perm opportunities with Opencast?
- If offered a position, when would you be available to start (or what is your current notice period)?
- If you are successful with us, we will be required to carry out background checks (checks include basic Disclosure, References and Financial). Are you comfortable with this?
- Would you like to be considered under the Disability Confident Interview Scheme? (Opting in means you are disclosing a disability only for the purpose of the interview guarantee. This will not be treated as a request to record your disability or to arrange any adjustments.)
- Have you served, or are you currently serving, in the UK Armed Forces?
- Security Clearance Requirement: This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance from the UK Government. To be eligible, you must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years, not spent 28 consecutive days or more outside the UK at any one time during those 5 years, and be willing to complete background checks. Please select the option that best describes your current status:
- How did you hear about this job opportunity?
- This role requires recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards. Do you have this experience?
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