Senior Project Manager | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in the UK seeks a Band 7 Senior Project Manager to lead clinical research projects. This role involves overseeing project teams, developing protocols, managing budgets, and ensuring project delivery in collaboration with various partners. Excellent communication skills and project management expertise are essential. Candidates must thrive in a dynamic setting and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Qualifications

• Must have direct project management experience.
• Competent in managing clinical research protocols.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide management expertise and oversight of multiple projects.
• Lead high priority/critical projects from initiation to closure.
• Develop and manage project plans including resource and risk management.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Project management expertise

Risk management

Independent working

Education

Project Management certification (e.g., PRINCE2)

Job description

Overview

The Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is looking for a Band 7 Senior Project Manager. The CRF is a Phase 1 MHRA accredited unit, the first NHS trust in England and Wales to achieve this standard.

The role involves line management of the project team, supporting the team on delivery of several clinical research projects crossing multiple clinical disciplines. The Senior Project Manager will oversee the effective set up, on-going management of and close out of their assigned research projects. The role involves working collaboratively with our commercial and academic partners to develop ground-breaking research protocols, obtaining regulatory approvals and successful delivery. Joining the CRF is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a dynamic and growing team dedicated to delivering high quality research projects with both academic and commercial collaborators.

The post holder will develop and deliver early phase CRF led clinical trials under the leadership direction of the Principal Investigator and CRF Operational Manager. Responsibilities typically include contributing to the development and management of the protocol, budget, timeline, quality guidelines and serving as the primary point of contact for the Sponsor, thereby ensuring that expectations are met while identifying and mitigating risks.

The successful applicant must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently, prioritise workload and communicate effectively with internal and external members of the research team to meet tight deadlines.

Line management responsibilities for the project team, to mentor and develop staff and maintain KPIs across the CRF research portfolio.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specializes in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services. For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management expertise and advice within the Directorate/organisation.
• Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.
• Oversee the successful delivery of a number of projects managed by members of the wider project team.
• Ensure that all projects are managed in accordance with PRINCE2 Project Management standards.
• Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.
• Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.
• To analyse and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, which requires analysis interpretation and comparison of a range of options and deciding how resources are to be used, including management of key interdependencies with other projects.
• Be responsible for developing and tracking the progress of project plans, including resource planning, using approved software.
• Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the program governance.
• To identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s), including the development and implementation of contingency plans.
• Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronised with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plans.
• Ensure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the project.
• Ensure appropriate plans, documentation and procedures are in place when handing a project over to business as usual as part of project closure.
• Where required, to work with other managers and attend meetings with other organisations, to discuss project priorities and progress.
• To make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programs/projects and to demonstrate systems to users when necessary.
• Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate.
• Serve as the primary liaison between research teams, senior managers and external partners/funders.
• The postholder will be required to contribute to the development and implementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the Directorate.
• The postholder will be required to monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and actions taken to resolve situations and to achieve progress.
• The postholder will liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues.
• The post holder will work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional & local policies.
• Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate.
• Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work.
• Dedicate the required concentration required to collate, analyse, check and report on complex information, while coping with ongoing project issues and interruptions.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025