Continuous Improvement Specialist - Andover, SP10 4FB, United Kingdom
Be the Catalyst for Everyday Improvement
Do you believe small changes can make a big difference?
At Aster Group, we know that continuous improvement is key to delivering better services and experiences for our customers and colleagues. We’re looking for a Continuous Improvement Specialist to help us embed a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and learning across the organisation.
This is your chance to enable teams to lead their own improvement initiatives, solve problems, and create lasting impact. You’ll provide tools, guidance, and support to help colleagues build confidence and capability in making positive change.
Why this role matters
Your work will empower people to improve how they work every day. In this role, you’ll:
* Enable improvement, guiding teams to identify opportunities and apply structured problem-solving techniques.
* Facilitate collaboration, running workshops to uncover root causes and generate ideas.
* Turn insight into action, using data to inform decisions and measure impact.
* Champion best practice, promoting continuous improvement tools and methodologies.
* Build capability, helping colleagues lead their own initiatives and share learning across the organisation.
What we’re looking for
You’re proactive, collaborative, and passionate about helping others succeed.
You’ll bring:
* Experience supporting or delivering continuous improvement in a complex organisation.
* Strong knowledge of improvement methodologies and tools.
* Excellent facilitation and communication skills.
* Analytical ability to interpret data and identify opportunities.
* A mindset focused on enabling others and building capability.
This is a hybrid role enabling you to work from home if you wish. Travel may be required in our operating region to meet with stakeholders and customers and attend meetings and work with the team, so being happy to travel is 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.
Interviews will be planned for the week commencing 19 January 2026.
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.