Senior Investment Manager – Real Estate

Company: The Crown Estate
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Location: London
Job Description:

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 provide a range of benefits including flexible working; market‑leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End; 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 at work.

We are a proud disability‑confident employer and operate a disability‑confident interview scheme. 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.

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Posted: May 31st, 2026