Manager - Structured Real Estate & Infrastructure Finance

Our preference is to appoint someone based within commuting distance of our Leeds office.

About the role

Working in a team with Neil Milligan, Wasim Juma, and Steven Whyte (Heads of Structured Real Estate & Infrastructure Finance), the SREIF Origination Manager will play a critical role in delivering high-impact funding facilities to support housing delivery in areas most in need. You will join a highly skilled and experienced team of 20 people committed to making positive change in how loan funding is deployed by the National Housing Bank to address gaps and failures in commercial funding markets, ensuring developers can access finance to boost delivery of new housing.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of complex development and infrastructure finance in a fast-growing, national organisation with real social purpose. You will work with key stakeholders and a professional, highly motivated team to ensure efficient, consistent, and effective resolution of complex funding challenges, with the opportunity to help deliver projects with real impact.

The team is dedicated to taking an innovative and creative approach to complex funding challenges, fostering good decision-making and problem-solving through collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and exploit your network to originate new lending opportunities.
• Analyse complex funding challenges and negotiate robust lending structures.
• Effectively manage the progress of proposals through approval processes.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, shaping discussions with a strong understanding of the commercial and operational impact of loan origination.
• Work collaboratively within a team to deliver innovative solutions.

Requirements

• Experience as a finance or real estate professional.
• Resilience and comfort managing stakeholders at a senior level.
• Ability to negotiate and persuade in a collaborative, inclusive way.
• Strong understanding of the commercial and operational impact of loan origination.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team.

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave plus 8 statutory bank holidays.
• Flexible working culture, including part-time, job share, and compressed hours.
• Health and wellbeing support, including free health screening, an Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential support), and access to Occupational Health.
• Professional development opportunities, including payment for one job-related professional membership subscription per year.
• Family-friendly benefits, including maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.

Open to UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, Commonwealth citizens with the right to work in the UK, and eligible EEA nationals with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme.