Product Manager – Senior Consultant

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Full time
Location: Manchester
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Job offered by: Opencast | B Corp™
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Ready for a new challenge? Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together? 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. The role

You'll work 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. 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. In your CV, please show how you have: 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. Demonstrable experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines. Desirable experience

There are some areas of experience which are not essential but are relevant to this role. Active contribution in 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 to demonstrate this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics. Salary

£405 per day - Inside IR35 Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site, or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes into account the requirements of your work, our clients, and your team. 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

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you. Want to know more?

Visit our website or email

careers@opencastsoftware.com . We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.

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