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Product Manager - Senior Consultant (Fixed Term Contract)
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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
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.
This role is offered on a 12 month fixed-term contract basis.
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
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
In the interview we’ll ask you to that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
Senior consultant salary range: £60,000 - £80,000
What our offer includes
A competitive pension, health cash plan and discretionary bonus
Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday
People to support you every step of the way
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 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.
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Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them – we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident – we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we’re not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
• Charity
• Environmental action
• Health and wellbeing
• Inclusive change
• Social committee
• Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
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Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
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Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
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Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients’ existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
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Opencast
Product Manager - Senior Consultant (Fixed Term Contract)
£60k - £80k
Newcastle upon Tyne
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