Asset Strategy Manager
Shape clear asset investment plans as Magna’s Asset Strategy Manager — evidence-based decisions, strong data, and a collaborative UK role with home-based work.
Salary: £51,871
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Home-based with occasional travel
Closing date: 9th July 2026 (midday)
Interviews: Remote on the 14th & 15th July
Please be aware that we are unable to provide Visa Sponsorship against this role. Applicants must already have the legal right to work and reside in the UK without the need for Employer Sponsorship.
At Magna, our vision is to create great homes together. We have ambitious plans, and are seeking creative, aspirational, and talented people to join our fast paced, adaptable, and highly collaborative environment.
What you can expect
At Magna, we’re committed to helping you grow in your career. We offer training and development opportunities, and our learning and development team will support you with this.
We provide a comprehensive benefits package to support your wellbeing, which includes a generous pension scheme, health care cash plan, wellbeing portal, employee assistance programme, access to Credit Union facilities and our Colleague Voice employee group. These resources are designed to support both your mental and physical health.
We actively support our local communities and encourage colleague involvement by offering one paid day per year for volunteering activities alongside.
You’ll also receive company sick pay and a competitive annual leave entitlement, which increases over the first five years.
What you are known for
Supporting the development, implementation and delivery of clear, consistent asset investment and decision-making frameworks.
Helping ensure investment decisions are transparent, evidence-based and defensible.
Translating asset strategy into clear, evidence-based investment plans and recommendations.
Delivering high-quality options appraisal and scenario modelling.
Providing expertise on asset intelligence and modelling tools.
Promoting strong asset data integrity and alignment across the organisation.
What you take care of
Support the development and application of asset investment and decision-making frameworks, ensuring a consistent, evidence-based approach to portfolio decisions.
Working with the Head of Department (HoD), carry out appraisals, modelling and analysis that supports recommendations for long-term portfolio investment decisions.
Support the development of investment plans for homes and estates, translating strategic priorities into prioritised, deliverable proposals.
Maintain and develop the asset intelligence “golden thread”, ensuring data, modelling and insight underpin confident decision-making.
Act as a key user and steward of modelling tools and systems (including GIS), ensuring outputs are robust, consistent and decision-ready.
Work across the business to improve asset data integrity, consistency and usability, helping to ensure data is fit for strategic planning purposes.
Support the HoD with insight and reporting for leadership and Board discussions, risk and performance management.
Support analysis of regeneration and place-based opportunities, contributing to early-stage appraisals and investment cases.
What you need to be successful
Strong analytical and modelling capability
Experience in asset management and/or strategy
Ability to translate data into insight
Strong communication skills
Our full range of benefit details can be viewed on our website under each vacancy.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Matt Jones, People Talent Manager at: matt.jones@magna.org.uk
To apply please visit our website www.magna.org.uk, select Careers Tab / Current Vacancies / Role, or follow the link attached to this advert.
Magna reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application early.
- Department
- Sustainability & Investment
- Role
- Asset Strategy Manager
- Locations
- Home-based with occasional travel
- Yearly salary
- £51,871
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- 09 July, 2026
- Closing time
- 12pm
- Job profile
- https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/magna2020/files/asset-strategy-manager.pdf
Benefits and perks
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Your annual leave entitlement starts at 5 weeks plus bank holidays and will increase progressively with the duration of your service over the first five years.
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If you're unwell and not able to work due to ill health, you'll receive paid sick pay based on your length of service with us.
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You receive a Social Housing Pension Scheme defined contribution. You get to decide how much you want to contribute (between 4% and 8%) and we will match this.
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We invest in your development at #TeamMagna. Our dedicated People Talent Team can help support you with your career progression and learning to help you go further, learn new skills and gain new qualifications.
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If you need to use your own vehicle to do your job, we'll pay you 45p per mile and an extra 5p for any passengers.
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Depending on your role, we support colleagues to work flexibly, including where, when and how, to help you get your work-life balance right and for us to get the best from you.
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We're proud to support our local communities and encourage you to get involved by taking one paid day a year to volunteer.
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Depending on your length of service, we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave.
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All colleagues have access to FUSE, a wellbeing portal which provides useful help and advice on a range of wellbeing topics, such as healthy eating, increasing your daily exercise, sleeping well and making healthier lifestyle choices. You can even ask questions directly to an expert.
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We have a group of dedicated colleagues who meet regularly to represent the views of all our colleagues.
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Following one year of working for us, you can apply for an interest free loan of up to £1,000 to help with house moving costs.
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We are partnered with Westcountry Savings & Loans to provide credit union facilities to colleagues and customers. You can apply to save with them or take out a loan from them.
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We provide an Employee Assistance service which offers up to 8 individual counselling sessions and support is available to our colleagues, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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All colleagues have access to Medicash, a health cash back scheme, where you can claim money back on your day to day medical and wellbeing costs (up to annual claim limits).
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Medicash can offer discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping.
Workplace and culture
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.
Our values
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Always safe
This means the safety of our colleagues and our customers is always our main priority.
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All about customers
This is our mindset and our team approach to putting customers at the heart of all we do.
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Be kind
This is about how we treat each other and how we go about our business.
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Own it
This is about how we all take responsibility for all our actions every day.
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One team
This is how we come together as #teammagna, embracing our diversity and recognising that together we can achieve outstanding results.
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Be curious
This is about how we learn about each other, our customers and our business. Learning helps make sure we all do the right thing, how we challenge convention and look beyond existing boundaries.
About Magna Housing
We’re proud to be a community-based housing association, providing homes and services to people in the South-West. We’re here to understand our customers’ needs and create places where they feel safe, belong, and can build a future.