Lead People-Centred Change
Are you passionate about helping people embrace change?
At Aster Group, we believe change succeeds when it’s inclusive, insight-driven, and focused on people. We’re looking for a Senior Change Specialist to lead the delivery of change that empowers colleagues, improves experiences, and creates lasting impact.
This is your opportunity to shape how we manage change across the organisation. You’ll lead a team of change professionals, embedding best practice and ensuring every initiative supports our values and strategic priorities.
Why this role matters
Your work will touch lives, helping colleagues and customers navigate change with confidence and clarity. In this role, you’ll:
* Lead change strategies for major change programmes.
* Champion engagement, working with cross-functional teams to co-design communication and training plans.
* Embed insight, using impact and readiness assessments to guide planning.
* Drive adoption, ensuring change is inclusive, sustainable, and aligned with organisational values.
* Inspire and develop others, managing Change Specialists and Continuous Improvement Specialists.
What we’re looking for
You’re a natural influencer with a passion for making change work for people.
You’ll bring:
* Significant experience leading or supporting change and transformation initiatives.
* Strong knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
* Experience in continuous improvement or process redesign.
* Proven line management and team development experience.
* Ideally, experience in housing, public sector, or regulated environments.
This role is a hybrid role which will enable you to base yourself from home if you wish. Travel will be required in the role to meet with stakeholders and customers, to attend meetings and spend time with the team, so being able to travel within our operating region will be important.
Our operating region includes Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.
Introduction to the PMO
The Portfolio Management Office is a newly formed strategic function designed to evolve our Group-wide approach to change delivery. It provides a holistic view of all change activity, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, sequenced, and resourced in line with organisational capacity.
Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, the PMO aligns plans with corporate strategy and strategic priorities, supports effective decision-making, and ensures value for money. By embedding consistent frameworks, standards, and governance, the PMO enables high-quality delivery across the change portfolio and drives continuous improvement.
This function is central to achieving our long-term goals, ensuring every change initiative contributes to organisational success and delivers measurable benefits for our colleagues and customers.
What’s in it for me
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
* Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
* A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
* We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
* Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
* Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
* Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
* Enhanced leave
* We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives
Ready to lead change that matters?
To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.
We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.
All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.