Project Manager - 12 month fixed term contract - Andover

Project Manager - 12 month fixed term contract - Andover, , United Kingdom

Deliver Change That Strengthens Our Future

Are you passionate about making a real difference?

At Aster Group, were committed to delivering change that builds trust, improves services, and supports the long-term success of our organisation and the communities we serve.

Were looking for a Project Manager with experience in leading a broad range of change initiatives across the business to help us deliver projects that truly matter.

Joining our Portfolio Management Office (PMO), youll play an essential role in delivering well-structured, people centred change that ensures we operate responsibly, efficiently, and sustainably.

Why this role matters

Your work will directly shape how colleagues and customers experience change. In this role, youll:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects that strengthen regulatory compliance, enhance operating models, and support organisational growth.
• Plan and coordinate resources and suppliers, ensuring delivery stays on track, within scope, and aligned with strategic priorities.
• Engage stakeholders across the organisation, building trusted relationships that help change land well and deliver real, measurable benefits.
• Apply strong project management disciplines, using formal methodologies to manage risks, dependencies, budgets, and schedules.
• Ensure new ways of working are integrated successfully, collaborating closely with change management and business design colleagues.
• Monitor performance and progress, ensuring outcomes are delivered efficiently and to a consistently high standard.

What were looking for

Youll thrive in this role if you are someone who enjoys delivering meaningful change in a structured, collaborative way. You bring:

• Strong experience managing change or transformation projects.
• Excellent planning, risk management, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong people skills with the ability to influence, support, and communicate clearly with colleagues at all levels.
• Confidence working across the full project lifecycle and applying best practice frameworks such as Agile or Waterfall.
• Experience working with project management tools (e.g., MS Planner, Asana, Trello).
• A proactive, solutions focused approach, with a genuine desire to make change land well for customers and colleagues.

This role is considered a hybrid role enabling you to work from home if you wish. There will be the requirement to attend meetings with colleagues and stakeholders, so being happy to travel within our operating region is a must.

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.

Whats 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 deliver change that strengthens our organisation and the communities we support?

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why youd 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 & its subsidiary brands.