Investment Manager - Real Estate Debt (Origination)

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Job Description

We are seeking an ambitious and commercially driven Investment Manager to play a pivotal role in growing our Real Estate Debt business. This is a senior origination-focused position, requiring a proven ability to generate new lending opportunities and convert them into executed transactions.

You’ll have experience in real estate debt or lending, together with a strong and active network of introducers, borrowers, and advisers. You’ll hit the ground running—delivering new business from day one while helping shape strategy and mentoring junior team members.

What’s in it for you?

This is a chance to step into a front-line origination role within one of the UK’s leading real estate debt platforms. You’ll be responsible for sourcing, structuring, and executing transactions across commercial, investment, development, and living sectors and the opportunity to make a visible impact on the growth of our business.

What you’ll be doing:

Origination & Business Development

• Independently source and originate new lending opportunities across the UK.
• Leverage an established network of brokers, advisers, and borrowers to drive immediate deal flow.
• Represent the firm at industry events, conferences, and meetings to strengthen origination channels – (the role requires the majority of time out of the office)
• Monitor and analyse market activity to identify areas of opportunity.
• Drive origination targets, with accountability for results.

Deal Assessment & Execution

• Take the lead in assessing new opportunities, including pricing, structure, and viability.
• Manage transactions from origination through to completion, including term sheet negotiation and execution.
• Prepare and present high-quality investment papers for Credit Committee.
• Work closely with internal teams (legal, risk, operations) to ensure timely and successful delivery.

Market Insight & Team Contribution

• Share market intelligence to shape origination strategy and competitive positioning.
• Support the Head of Investment in refining origination processes and improving efficiency.
• Mentor junior members of the team and contribute to overall team development.

Qualifications

✅ Experience in real estate debt, lending, or finance (or equivalent transactional background).

✅ Demonstrable track record of origination and execution of transactions.

✅ Strong and active network across brokers, introducers, and borrowers.

✅ Proven ability to bring opportunities into the business immediately.

✅ Solid understanding of the UK real estate market (living, investment, commercial, and development).

✅ Strong commercial acumen with ability to structure deals and negotiate effectively.

✅ Financial modelling and credit analysis proficiency preferred.

✅ RICS / CFA / CAIA qualification an advantage.

Additional Information

A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan
✈️ Untracked holiday
Hybrid working – our people spend 3 days a week in the office
⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, Shout & more
Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender
❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
Private medical insurance for you and your family
Electric vehicle leasing

Our Values
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We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.