Job Description

Job Title:

Head of Asset Optimisation

Contract Type:

Permanent

Salary:

67,395.47 (74,322.65 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)

Working Hours:

Full time 35 hours per week

Working Pattern:

Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm/ Hybrid

Location:

Can be based in Liverpool or London

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.

The difference you will make as the 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 delivering the asset strategy, with investment planning and asset intelligence supporting a cohesive, insight-led approach to portfolio management.

About you

We are looking for someone with

Strategic Asset Management

: Proven experience in leading asset transformation programmes, including sustainability, rationalisation, and long-term investment planning, within a complex organisational context.

Technical Expertise

: Working knowledge of rationalisation (e.g. disposals, reconfigurations, and acquisitions). Deep understanding of sustainability and asset management (e.g. lifecycle planning, portfolio optimisation).

Data-Driven Decision Making:

Ability to interpret and apply asset performance data, risk assessments, and option appraisals to inform strategic planning and delivery.

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.

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

Role Profile

Lead and engage a team

Create a safe environment where colleagues can talk openly and honestly. Or Work as part of a committed and compassionate team, delivering an outstanding experience to customers whilst being supported by your colleagues and Line Manager.

Strategic Asset Transformation Delivery

Lead the implementation of delivery plans that support Riverside's Homes Strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities and regulatory requirements Oversee the planning and prioritisation of energy efficiency and decarbonisation improvements, 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 reconfigurations. Support the integration of investment planning and asset data insights into delivery plans, ensuring a cohesive and insight-led approach to asset transformation.

Customer and Community Impact

Ensure that homes are healthy, energy-efficient, and free from hazards such as damp, mould, and poor air quality, through the strategic use of asset data, investment planning, and rationalisation. Enable the delivery of the Healthy Homes Pledge by coordinating planning, prioritisation, and cross-team collaboration to drive measurable improvements in customer outcomes. Support initiatives that improve affordability, wellbeing, and climate resilience by ensuring the right homes are in the right places, and that investment and rationalisation decisions reflect customer and community needs.

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration

Build strong relationships with local authorities, funders, commercial partners, and sector peers to share best practice, inform strategic asset decisions, and support effective delivery of disposals, acquisitions, and investment programmes. Lead internal stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment across asset transformation priorities, enabling joined-up planning and decision-making. Represent Riverside in external forums, networks, and professional groups that.

Data, Risk and Performance Management

Oversee the use and analysis of property data to inform plans and strategic decision-making. Identify and manage risks, ensuring robust mitigation strategies are in place. Support the development and cyclical review of the Homes Strategy, ensuring it is underpinned by high-quality data and aligned with operational and strategic priorities. Champion the continuous improvement of asset data quality, systems and reporting to enable effective investment planning and long-term portfolio optimisation.

Funding and Resource Management

Identify and secure funding opportunities to support asset transformation priorities, including sustainability, rationalisation, and long-term investment planning. Provide oversight of budgets and resource planning to ensure value for money, alignment with strategic priorities, and effective delivery of programmes. Lead the delivery of income targets through the disposal of assets, ensuring commercial decisions are well-informed, timely, and aligned with the Homes Strategy. Support the development of business cases and funding proposals, ensuring that investment decisions are evidence-based and deliver measurable impact.

Leadership and Culture

Provide visible leadership across strategic asset transformation, fostering collaboration and accountability across sustainability, rationalisation, and investment-related functions. Promote a culture of innovation, commercial awareness, and continuous improvement, ensuring teams are empowered to deliver complex programmes with clarity and purpose. Build capability across asset transformation functions, embedding technical knowledge, strategic thinking, and customer focus into training and development.

Other Information

The role requires you to work collaboratively with team changes responding to business need.

Person specification

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

Strategic Asset Management

: Proven experience in leading asset transformation programmes, including sustainability, rationalisation, and long-term investment planning, within a complex organisational context.

Technical Expertise

: Working knowledge of rationalisation (e.g. disposals, reconfigurations, and acquisitions). Deep understanding of sustainability and asset management (e.g. lifecycle planning, portfolio optimisation).

Data-Driven Decision Making:

Ability to interpret and apply asset performance data, risk assessments, and option appraisals to inform strategic planning and delivery.

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.

Programme and Budget Management:

Experience in managing complex programmes and budgets, with a focus on delivering value through rationalisation, investment planning, and income generation.

Leadership and Culture:

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, foster collaboration, and promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

Strategic Thinking:

Experience in shaping and reviewing long-term strategies that align with corporate objectives, regulatory expectations, and customer needs. *

Professional Credentials:

Relevant academic qualification or professional membership (e.g. IEMA, RICS, CIOB).