Overview
Strategic Information & Insight Partner – 9 Month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment – Andover, SP10 4BF, United Kingdom
At Aster, we’re making bold decisions to improve lives and communities and we believe the best decisions are driven by strong evidence, insight and intelligent challenge. That’s where you come in.
We’re looking for a Strategic Information and Insight Partner to act as a trusted advisor, critical friend and knowledge partner across our business. This is a high‑profile role working with senior leaders, boards and governing bodies to ensure our strategies, policies and investments are fully informed by robust data, research and external intelligence.
It’s a great opportunity for someone with experience of Aster Group and/or the wider housing sector, who is keen to build on their knowledge and play a more active role in strategic decision making.
What you’ll be doing
In this influential role, you’ll:
- Build a deep understanding of Aster’s business model, strategy and operating environment to provide clear, actionable insight to senior stakeholders.
- Act as a strategic partner across the organisation—shaping decisions, influencing outcomes and supporting business change.
- Monitor the external landscape, including political, regulatory, economic and sector developments, translating complexity into meaningful insight, risks and opportunities.
- Horizon scan to identify emerging trends, challenges and opportunities that could impact our strategic priorities.
- Provide high‑quality intelligence and assurance to Panels, Committees and Boards, supporting governance, compliance and risk management.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and growth opportunities with competitor, customer and market intelligence.
- Collaborate closely with Project Delivery, Business Design and Change teams to ensure insight flows where it matters most.
- Enable the organisation to adopt emerging technologies, including AI, by sharing best practice and market intelligence.
- Champion evidence‑led decision making while living the values of The Aster Way—working collaboratively and raising standards across the business.
About you
You’ll bring a rare blend of analytical strength, commercial awareness and influencing skill. You’ll likely have:
- Degree‑level education (or equivalent experience).
- Proven experience influencing a wide range of audiences through clear, compelling insight and communication.
- Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, with hands‑on experience of using data and insight to inform evidence-led decision making.
- Extensive experience of research and scanning complex external information, synthesising it into practical insight.
- A strong understanding of the housing sector and its wider political, regulatory and economic context or the ability to rapidly build it.
- A commercial mindset, curiosity and an innovative approach to problem solving.
- A proactive commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
- High levels of professionalism when handling sensitive and confidential information.
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 apply?
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.
Internally this vacancy will be offered as a secondment, please discuss with your leader before applying.
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
