Senior Change Specialist

Location: Flexible - able to travel within our operating region

Hours: 37 hours per week

Closing Date: 31 August 2026

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.

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.

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 is a hybrid role, enabling you to work from home. The team do come together on a regular basis and there will be the need to attend workshops on projects you are aligned with, so being able to travel within our operating region is a must.

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.

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

Interviews will take place week commencing 7 September.

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.