Overview
Senior Portfolio Manager – 12 Months Fixed Term / Secondment – Devizes, SN10 2AZ, United Kingdom
At Aster Group, we’re committed to delivering meaningful, well‑planned change that strengthens our organisation and supports the communities we serve. Our newly established Portfolio Management team sits at the heart of this ambition.
We’re looking for a Senior Portfolio Manager to join us on a 12‑month fixed‑term basis, providing essential continuity and leadership while shaping the future of our change portfolio.
Why this role matters
As Senior Portfolio Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in overseeing the organisation‑wide change portfolio. You will:
- Own and maintain the strategic portfolio plan, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and business priorities.
- Lead prioritisation and sequencing, ensuring initiatives are deliverable within capacity and set up for success.
- Act as the gatekeeper for new initiatives, ensuring robust assessment and approval processes.
- Collaborate with Strategy & Insight to ensure continued alignment with planning cycles and strategic decision‑making.
- Oversee portfolio‑level risk, dependency, and resource management, ensuring challenges are visible and well‑managed.
- Provide clear reporting and insight to senior leaders and governance groups on portfolio performance, benefits, risks, and progress.
- Lead and support your team, including a Portfolio Manager and PMO Officer, ensuring consistent application of governance, standards, and delivery frameworks.
This is a role with organisation‑wide influence, ensuring that what we deliver reflects our strategic goals and that our resources are used effectively.
What we’re looking for
You’ll thrive in this role if you are someone who enjoys bringing structure, clarity, and strategic insight to complex environments. You bring:
- Significant experience in portfolio management within a complex organisation.
- A strong track record in leading prioritisation, sequencing, and strategic alignment of change activity.
- Experience in risk management, benefits realisation, and resource planning across multiple initiatives.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build consensus.
- Strong analytical ability and sound judgement to support strategic recommendation and decision‑making.
- Experience leading and developing high‑performing teams.
- Ideally, experience in housing, regulated, or public‑sector environments.
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful contribution, ensuring the organisation maintains delivery momentum and strategic alignment during a period of maternity leave.
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 shape the future of change?
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.
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