Head of Asset Optimisation

Job Title: Head of Asset Optimisation
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £84,239.41 per annum (£93,106.72 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)
Working Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday- Hybrid
Location: Liverpool, London or Carlisle

If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.
Please note that whilst we will accept applications based on any form of valid legal permission to work in the UK, we will be surrendering the Riverside Sponsorship licence, so for the avoidance of doubt, we are unable to apply for any further sponsorships whether on behalf of existing colleagues or candidates.

The difference you will make as a Head of Asset Optimisation
You will lead the delivery of Riverside’s strategic asset transformation agenda, encompassing sustainability, rationalisation, and the optimisation of asset performance. This role ensures that homes are future-proofed, efficient, and aligned with customer needs and corporate objectives. The postholder will play a central role in shaping and reviewing the Homes Strategy, providing clear reporting on progress and oversight of strategy across the organisation.

About you
We are looking for someone with
  ·  Strategic Asset Management: Proven experience in leading asset transformation programmes, including sustainability and rationalisation, within a complex organisational context.
· Technical Expertise: Experience supporting or leading asset rationalisation activity, including disposals and portfolio change, informed by financial, operational and customer considerations. Deep understanding of sustainability and retrofit planning.  
· Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to interpret and apply asset performance data, risk assessments, and option appraisals to inform asset decisions. 
·    Customer and Community Focus: Demonstrated ability to improve customer outcomes through asset decisions that enhance affordability, wellbeing, and housing quality.
· Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience engaging a wide range of stakeholders including regulatory and funding bodies, commercial partners and sector peers.

Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives. 
We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy:
• Competitive pay & generous pension 
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside: 
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues. 
Riverside is a Disability Confident Employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicant who declares they have a disability. If the applicant meets the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.

This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview.  If required

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Role Profile
Leading and engaging a team 
• Lead a multi-disciplinary asset optimisation function, setting clear direction, priorities and accountabilities aligned to portfolio performance and corporate objectives 
• Provide leadership across rationalisation, sustainability and asset strategy, ensuring teams and partners are aligned to shared outcomes. 
• Translate strategy into deliverable priorities, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities and expected outcomes across the function 
• Manage performance through clear objectives, regular review and use of data and insight 
• Build capability across the service, including asset analysis, sustainability and strategic decision-making 
• Work across organisational boundaries to influence delivery teams and ensure alignment between asset strategy and operational delivery 
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and evidence-based decision making

Strategic Asset Optimisation
• Lead the implementation of asset optimisation priorities aligned to the Homes Strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities and regulatory requirements
• Oversee the planning and prioritisation of energy efficiency and decarbonisation roadmaps, including the development of roadmaps and investment scenarios to for delivery and business planning.
• Use asset performance data and option appraisal insights to identify underperforming or non-strategic assets, informing decisions on disposals, acquisitions, and...