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Curriculum Client Partner
Randstad Internal Resourcer
Wilmslow
Hybrid
Mid - Senior
£40,000 - £45,000
RECENTLY POSTED
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Curriculum Client Partner (Sales - Maternity Cover)

Key Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

  1. Consultative Partnership & Solution Strategy:
  • Act as the lead curriculum expert in client consultations to diagnose training needs, scope solutions, and support the sales team.
  • Strategically design and oversee the creation of bespoke curricula and training programmes that meet client objectives.
  • Stay abreast of sector trends and regulatory changes to ensure all programme content is innovative and compliant.
  1. Project Management & Governance:
  • Lead end-to-end project management for all curriculum development, ensuring timely delivery against client timelines.
  • Develop detailed modular programme schemes, ensuring all requirements are built exclusively within the current learner management system.
  • Collaborate with Training Operations to align on content objectives and support them in building their own delivery resources.
  • Own and govern the high-level content library, driving standardisation and quality control across all programmes.
  1. Quality, Data, and Compliance:
  • Analyse programme data and stakeholder feedback (learner, employer) to drive continuous curriculum improvement and ensure excellent outcomes.
  • Ensure all developed programmes meet the requirements of the DfE, Ofsted, and all other relevant regulatory and awarding bodies

Experience:

  • A background working for a training provider or within an educational setting
  • Excellent understanding of the Apprenticeship standards
  • Diploma in Education and Training or equivalent

We are an inclusive employer and should you require any reasonable adjustments in order to complete any aspect of the recruitment process, please contact the Internal Talent Acquisition (ITA) team.

Please get in touch with Sam Badger to find out more.

Randstad is committed to equal opportunities for all and will not discriminate based on an individual’s sex, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, sexual orientation or age. We are an inclusive employer and should you require any reasonable adjustments in order to complete any aspect of the recruitment process, please contact us on (url removed)

Senior Product Owner
Pontoon
Warwick
Hybrid
Senior
£550/day
RECENTLY POSTED
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

Join us on an exciting journey as we transform Great Britain’s energy system! We are seeking two passionate and talented Senior Product Owners to be a part of our Connections Product team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the forefront of creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

Role: Senior Product Owner

Duration: 6 months

Location: Warwick (Hybrid 1 Day in Office)

Rate: £550 pd (umbrella)

Why Join Us?
At our organization, we value bright minds and innovative thinking. As a Senior Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our digital platforms and ensuring a seamless experience for all stakeholders. Your contributions will directly impact our mission to deliver an efficient, transparent, and customer-focused connections process.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build Relationships: Establish and nurture strong connections with key internal and external stakeholders to fully understand their needs and keep them engaged throughout our initiatives.
  • Drive Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain the Product Roadmap, translating complex requirements into intuitive user stories and features with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Customer-Centric Focus: Foster a data-driven approach to prioritization, ensuring that customer experience remains at the heart of our decisions.
  • Agile Leadership: Lead agile ceremonies, including refinements, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to keep the team aligned and focused.
  • User Acceptance Testing: Support the team during user acceptance testing and ensure successful release signoffs.
  • Training and Support: Identify training needs with the change team to ensure smooth transitions for our stakeholders.
  • Engagement & Communication: Conduct workshops and presentations, effectively communicating product roadmaps and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.

Who You Are:
We’re looking for visionary minds who are excited about improving customer experiences. You should have:

  • A passion for enhancing the customer journey for our Connections customers.
  • A proven track record as a Product Owner managing digital platforms.
  • Have a ‘Technical’ rather than ‘Business’ Background.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate product roadmaps and prioritize features based on business value and user impact.
  • Experience in complex regulated environments.

What We Offer:

  • A supportive and collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions will be valued.
  • The opportunity to make a real difference in the energy sector and be part of a transformative journey.

If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and help shape the future of energy in Great Britain, we want to hear from you!

Apply Now! Join us and be part of a team dedicated to creating a cleaner, more sustainable future. Let’s make an impact together!

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven’t heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities’ employer.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Spotlight
Product Manager - Senior Consultant (Contract)
Opencast
Multiple locations
Hybrid
Senior - Leader
Private salary
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Check out this brand new 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 You'll work on complex business challenges to help deliver solutions that deliver 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. Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel. Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it. Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days. 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 that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics. 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 in account 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.

Instrumental Raman Spectroscopist UPLiFT
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Location not specified
In office
Graduate - Junior
£45,000/day
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Instrumental Raman Spectroscopist UPLiFT Salary: £41,344 - £45,479 per annum | 3 Years Fixed-term Contract | Full-time | Closing date: 23rd November 2025 Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE Come and discover the kind of impact you can make when you work with some of the best facilities and brightest scientists in the world. As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) the Central Laser Facility (CLF) contains many state-of-the-art laser systems and experimental stations, along with expert scientists, engineers and technicians that work with academic and industry users to deliver science across a broad range of fields. We have around 200 staff and are a very friendly, outgoing, externally facing department. We have a welcoming and inclusive culture, and you will find that people will naturally help and support you. About the role The position is to participate in a research project to develop a novel concept combining Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) and ultrasound for enhanced chemically specific imaging deep inside biological tissue. The full-time position is funded through a recently awarded EPSRC grant for three years. The concerned work will take place at the Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK and involves close collaboration with the University of Exeter (Prof. Nick Stone). This post will be part of a team of leading scientists working to develop novel solutions to solve clinical needs in patient specific diagnosis and treatment of cancers. Specifically, we seek a postdoctoral research scientist to focus on the development of instrumentation comprising both SORS and Raman technology. Expertise in vibrational spectroscopy is essential. The post will include design, construction, optimisation and day-to-day operation of the instrument. The study will be performed on excised tissue and optical phantoms. The applicant will have experience with data analysis of vibrational spectra. The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information orally, in writing and electronically and participate in the preparation of proposals and applications to external bodies. A suitable candidate will be a PhD graduate (or near completion) in any of the natural sciences. The candidate will benefit from working in a vibrant internationally leading research environment. Advanced training and researcher development will be provided as part of the programme. Main duties and accountabilities To undertake research to develop the novel analytical instrumentation, including optical design. Writing up research work for publication. Making presentations at national and international conferences and similar events. Dealing with problems which may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines. Analysing and interpreting the results of own research and generating original ideas based on outcomes. Using new research techniques and methods. Using initiative and creativity to identify areas for research, developing new research methods and extending the research portfolio. To monitor research budgets as appropriate. To maintain safety in their research environment. Engaging in continuous professional development. Person Specification The following criteria will be assessed at Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I) A PhD in natural sciences (or within 6 months of completion), or equivalent experience. (S) Experience in using vibrational spectroscopy (Raman or IR) and associated data analysis. (S&I) Hands on experience in developing/aligning vibrational spectroscopy instruments (Raman or IR). (S&I) Having a proactive approach to work and to be able to use initiative to work within a scientific environment. (I) Able to work independently and as a part of a team. (S&I) Able to work to tight deadlines. (S&I) Safety awareness. (I) Excellent interpersonal skills, including communication, both written and oral. (S&I) Additional Information Further information is available from Prof. Pavel Matousek (). Our Benefits UK Research and Innovation recognises and values employees as individuals and aim to provide a pay and rewards package that motivates staff to perform to the best of their ability. The reward package includes a flexible working scheme, Defined benefit pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance plus 10.5 bank holiday/privilege days and several other benefits. We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Whatever our role, we have the freedom to explore, learn and connect, as part of a community that loves to share knowledge and support one another. As one of Europes largest research organisations, this is a place where theres always something new to learn about the world around us, about your career, but most of all, about yourself. Join us and discover whats possible! Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costs or contact

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Frequently asked questions
A contract Product Manager is a temporary position where you manage product development and strategy for a set period, often to oversee specific projects or fill gaps in permanent staff.
Contract durations vary but typically range from 3 to 12 months, depending on the project's scope and company needs.
Both remote and on-site opportunities are available. Job listings specify the work arrangement, allowing you to choose based on your preference and availability.
Key skills include product lifecycle management, stakeholder communication, agile methodologies, roadmap planning, and experience in rapid project onboarding.
You can browse available contract Product Manager listings on our platform, create a profile, and apply directly through the job board with your updated resume and cover letter.