Landscape Manager in Knowsley

Landscape Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Liverpool FC team as a Landscape Manager.

The Landscape Manager is responsible for planning, delivering, and maintaining exceptional landscape and horticultural standards across all club facilities, including the training ground, stadium surrounds, academy sites, and associated properties.

The role ensures that all external environments reflect the standards required at LFC, supporting player performance, visitor experience, brand image, and sustainable operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management, maintenance, and enhancement of all landscaped and horticultural areas across club sites, ensuring consistently high standards of presentation.
• Deliver seasonal landscape programmes including planting, pruning, turf care, irrigation, weed control, and environmental maintenance.
• Oversee the upkeep of trees, shrub beds, water features, pathways, and hard landscaping, maintaining elite standards across all public and operational spaces.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of landscape technicians and gardeners, supporting performance, training, and professional development.
• Plan and coordinate daily operations, ensuring efficient allocation of labour, equipment, and resources.
• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations, including risk assessments, safe machinery use, and maintenance of operational records.
• Champion sustainable landscaping practices, supporting biodiversity, water conservation, waste reduction, and the club's sustainability strategy.
• Lead landscape improvement and renovation projects, managing budgets, procurement, contractors, and project delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Grounds, Facilities, and Operations teams to support matchday, event, and site presentation requirements.
• Represent the landscaping function in cross‑departmental planning and stakeholder meetings, driving continuous improvement across club environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing landscape, horticultural, or grounds teams at a senior level.
• Advanced knowledge of horticulture, turf care, irrigation, and planting schemes.
• Strong leadership and people‑management skills.
• Excellent organisational and project‑management abilities.
• Competent in using landscaping machinery and tools, with relevant certificates (PA1, PA6, PA2, chainsaw, etc.).
• Understanding of sustainability practices and modern landscape techniques.
• Full UK driving licence.
• High attention to detail and commitment to excellence.
• Calm under pressure with the ability to respond to operational challenges.
• Strong communication skills with a collaborative, team‑first approach.
• Pride in delivering world‑class environments that enhance club reputation.
• Desirable: Experience in an elite sports environment (football or similar high‑performance settings).
• Desirable: NVQ3/HND or Degree in Horticulture, Landscaping, or a related discipline.
• Desirable: Experience collaborating with architects or landscape designers.

Benefits

• Full‑time permanent role, 40 hours per week 5/7 Days.
• Main base at our Axa Training Centre.
• Competitive salary.
• 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days.
• Access to rich benefits kit, including contributory pension scheme matching up to 5.5%, life assurance cover, free financial guidance and mortgage advice, car salary sacrifice scheme, cycle to work scheme, purchase season ticket loans, exclusive shopping discounts and cashback with top retailers, willwriting service for future planning, employee assistance programme, Medicash health cash plan, volunteering opportunities, LFC perks such as retail discounts, partner offers, free LFCTV GO access, priority tickets for matches, events & concerts, and more.
• Equality & Diversity

At Liverpool Football Club, we have an unwavering commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and are always looking to making a positive difference in the communities that we operate within.

We are proud of our achievements in this area; maintaining the Premier League Equality Standard Advanced Level, becoming a founding signatory of the Football Association’s Football Leadership Diversity Code and being recognised as a leader in this important area on and off the pitch.

We take our responsibilities in this area seriously and through the work being done across the club, we are committed to increasing the diversity of our people and becoming an increasingly inclusive workplace for all.

We are committed to hiring great people representative of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills across our entire business.

If you share our enthusiasm and passion for inclusivity, then we want to hear from you.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

This role is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

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