Product Manager - Consultant

Opencast; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

7% employer pension contribution

Share options

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday

Life happens days

Wellbeing support

Professional development

Job summary

Opencast is seeking a Product Manager to lead product strategy and delivery for client projects across government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. You will collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to shape features and prioritise backlogs, ensuring solutions meet client goals and user needs.

You will drive discovery and ideation workshops, translate roadmaps into actionable plans, and help teams deliver outcomes while upholding quality and security policies.

Qualifications

• Depth of experience as a product manager across complex projects.
• Good knowledge of software development and agile processes.
• Experience with user-centered design and service design.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and delivery for client projects across sectors.
• Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to shape features and backlogs.
• Deliver discovery and ideation workshops with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Ensure work aligns with clients' policies, standards and procedures.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

User-centered design

Job description

Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham

Commitment:

Permanent - Employee

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 opportunities available in November.

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

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

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.

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.

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