Advert closes: Wednesday 10th July
Are you a highly commercial real estate investment professional ready to lead sophisticated transactions and shape future strategy? This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing, centralised Investment team where you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering impactful, market-leading deals.
The Opportunity
As a Senior Investment Manager, you’ll take ownership of end-to-end real estate transactions, driving deals across acquisitions, disposals, and headlease regears, while helping to shape and evolve long-term investment strategy.
Working across Urban (London & Regional) and Rural portfolios, with exposure to future sectors, you’ll operate at the forefront of investment decision-making, combining commercial insight with purpose-driven outcomes that deliver financial, social, and environmental value.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead high-quality transactions from origination through to completion, including sourcing, underwriting, negotiation, and execution
Deliver robust due diligence and develop clear, compelling investment recommendations for senior stakeholders and Investment Committee
Collaborate widely with internal teams and external advisors to challenge assumptions and optimise deal outcomes
Contribute to investment strategy, capital allocation, and portfolio evolution
Support complex structures including joint ventures and partnerships
Act as a visible ambassador for the investment function—building market profile and relationships
Drive innovation, champion new thinking, and help elevate investment capability across the organisation
About You
You’ll be an experienced real estate investment professional with a proven ability to lead transactions and influence decision-making.
Proven track record of delivering real estate investment transactions
Excellent understanding of asset risk, performance drivers, and value creation levers
Experience presenting investment recommendations to senior stakeholders
Great analytical, negotiation, and communication skills
Collaborative approach with the ability to challenge constructively
Interest in new markets, sectors, and innovative deal structures
Passion for investments that create long-term, sustainable value
Why Join?
Work in a business committed to long-term impact and sustainability
A culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and growth
Exposure to diverse portfolios and complex deals
Opportunity to shape investment strategy, not just execute it
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
At The Crown Estate, our role is to put the nation’s interests first.
We manage land, property and the seabed across England, Wales and Northern Ireland - independently, commercially and for our nation’s future.
We’re investing and playing a key role in delivering net zero and energy security, nature recovery and biodiversity, and supporting inclusive communities and economic growth, all while responsibly creating financial value for the UK.
We return our profits to the UK government for public spending, which has totalled more than £5 billion over the last ten years.
We manage a diverse £15 billion portfolio, making a lasting impact, today and for generations to come. This includes urban centres and development opportunities; one of the largest rural holdings in the country; Regent Street and St James’s in London’s West End; and Windsor Great Park. We also manage the seabed and much of the coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where we have an ambitious vision for how the UK’s seabed can support nature recovery and the transition to clean energy.
