Project Manager
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
The Opportunity
Are you an experienced Project Manager who can lead complex change with confidence, pace, and clarity?
Liberata is looking for a Project Manager to join our Business Change team. This is an opportunity to lead projects that improve services, strengthen operational delivery, and support better outcomes for clients across the public and private sectors.
You will play a key role in turning agreed objectives into well-managed delivery. Working with senior stakeholders, operational teams, and clients, you will take ownership of projects from scoping through to implementation and closure. This role will suit someone who combines strong project discipline with sound judgement, commercial awareness, and the ability to keep delivery moving in complex environments.
Knowledge of local government systems and solutions, particularly Revenues and Benefits, would be highly beneficial.
What you will do
- Manage the scoping, planning, and implementation of change, ensuring that delivery remains aligned with agreed benefits
- Maintain key project documentation, including Project Brief, Project Initiation Document, Project Plan, RAID Log, milestone reports, project closure reports, and board reports
- Take ownership of project budgets and financial tracking
- Actively manage change, risks, and issues, putting contingency plans in place where needed
- Prepare Project, Stage, and Exception Plans, ensuring delivery plans are realistic and progress is monitored effectively
- Communicate progress to senior management and client managers on a weekly and monthly basis against agreed measures
- Support innovative approaches to solutions and implementation
- Work closely with team managers to identify and address local resource and delivery challenges
- Provide oversight across multiple projects where required, whether directly managed by you or others across the wider delivery environment
What we are looking for
- Proven project and change management experience
- The ability to coordinate different audiences and teams to achieve a common goal
- A strong understanding of planning, controlling, organising, evaluating, budgeting, and staffing
- Presentation and negotiation skills
- Financial tracking capability
- Strong planning skills using MS Project or similar tools
- Experience managing project and programme risks and issues
- The ability to produce high-quality project plans and reports
- Experience managing change through third parties and remote delivery teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to bring forward practical and innovative ideas
- The resilience to deliver complex and demanding projects
- A commercially focused, results-driven approach and the credibility to build confidence with stakeholders quickly
- Previous, relevant line manager experience is desirable
Why join Liberata
Liberata is a leading business service provider working with public and private sector organisations throughout the UK. We help clients improve performance and efficiency through expert delivery, strong operational capability, and practical transformation.
Joining Liberata means being part of a team that delivers meaningful change. This is a role where your work will have a clear impact, helping projects move from concept to delivery while improving services and supporting long-term client outcomes.
Our benefits include
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service
- Pension scheme with company contributions matched up to 6 percent
- Life assurance equivalent to four times annual salary
- Professional development and support towards relevant qualifications
- Access to a wide range of employee rewards, benefits, and discounts
- Employee well-being initiatives and assistance programme
- Flexible working options
Security checks
All successful candidates must meet the government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard.
For external candidates, this includes a basic criminal record check for unspent convictions and an annual adverse finance check covering CCJs, IVAs, bankruptcies, Scottish decrees, or Administration Orders.
For internal candidates, an annual adverse finance check will be required.
If these requirements are not met, an offer may be withdrawn.
The Company
Liberata is a leading business service provider to public and private sector organisations throughout the UK. We pride ourselves in revolutionising our clients operations using our expertise and innovative solutions across a wide range of services, including Revenues & Benefits, Finance and Accounting, HR & Payroll and Customer Services. Our aim is to work in partnership with our clients to assist them in becoming more efficient; leveraging our best in class business process outsourcing and operational transformation expertise.
Liberata is committed to creating opportunities for its employees, its clients and its shareholders. Our passion for process and an intense client focus ensures that we deliver an award winning service and our entire workforce are encouraged to demonstrate our company values.
Liberata aims to give each employee the opportunity to make a real difference; be involved in shaping the growth of the business and encourage you to try new things! If you are hardworking, enthusiastic and seeking a challenge we are the organisation for you.
The Benefits
Liberata will provide the opportunity for you to develop your skills and experience with a leading supplier of services and software to public and private organisations across the UK.
For the full list of benefits, please click here, but below is a taste of what we offer:
Holiday
26 days rising to 27 and then 28 after qualifying length of service
Pension
scheme
Contribute up to 6% and the company will match the contribution
Professional development
Support towards gaining professional qualifications
Reward
scheme
A wide range of benefits, rewards and discounts
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