Are you an experienced project delivery leader ready to take ownership of a high-value portfolio and shape the future of housing delivery? We’re looking for a Senior Project Delivery Manager to drive strategic programmes, deliver complex projects, and lead high-performing teams in a dynamic and highly regulated environment.
The Role
This is a pivotal leadership role where you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of a significant portfolio of projects and programmes, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and regulatory requirements. You will operate in a complex delivery landscape, overseeing multiple concurrent projects while maintaining a relentless focus on time, cost, quality, safety, and outcomes.
You’ll play a critical role in embedding a strong building safety culture, ensuring compliance with the Building Safety Act 2022, and overseeing works related to Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs)—maintaining the “golden thread” of information and working closely with key duty holders.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Lead and deliver a portfolio of projects and programmes valued at £5m–£8m+
* Provide strategic direction, governance, and assurance across all delivery activity
* Drive programme planning, prioritisation, and management of complex interdependencies
* Take full ownership of financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost control
* Oversee risk, issue, and contract management, ensuring strong mitigation strategies
* Implement consistent methodologies, governance frameworks, and best practices
* Build, lead, and inspire high-performing, dispersed delivery teams
* Engage and influence senior stakeholders, providing expert insight on delivery and risk
* Champion continuous improvement, driving efficiency, value for money, and service transformation
* Ensure delivery outcomes achieve measurable organisational benefits
About You
You’re a strategic and commercially astute delivery leader with a proven track record in complex project environments—ideally within social housing, construction, or property services.
You will bring:
* A degree or equivalent experience in a construction, building, or related discipline
* Significant experience delivering large-scale programmes and planned works, valued at £5-8m+
* A strong background in contractor and supplier management
* In-depth knowledge of health & safety legislation, including HRBs and fire safety
* Proven ability to lead large teams, develop talent, and drive high performance
* A track record in transformation, delivering efficiencies and improved outcomes
* Strong financial and commercial acumen
* Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
This role is a hybrid role enabling you to base yourself from home. As travel throughout the operating region will be required you will hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.
Our operating region includes Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to play a key strategic role in delivering safe, compliant, and high-quality housing outcomes that make a real difference. You’ll be empowered to shape delivery strategy, drive innovation, and lead change in a forward-thinking organisation.
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 apply?
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.