Investment Manager
| Posting date: | 04 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £42,391 to £50,282 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London pay bands: £46,290 to £50,282? National pay bands: £42,391? to £46,465? |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 February 2026 |
| Location: | Salford |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 446736/7 |
Summary
The Office for Investment (OfI) was spun out of Downing Street in January 2021 and is now a joint unit between No.10, HMT and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The OfI is an exciting, creative and dynamic place to work amongst a motivated and driven team with both commercial and public sector backgrounds. The Office works closely with Secretaries of State, Junior Ministers, No.10 and HMT to deliver the highest-value, highest profile investment propositions.
The team operates a flexible and flat structure which means that staff across all grades have the opportunity to work directly alongside the senior leadership and have direct exposure to ministers and senior business executives.
The OfI’s missions are to improve the UK’s chances of landing large and impactful internationally contestable investment projects; increase the allocation of capital investment into the UK from the world’s most prolific and exciting financial investors; and give the world’s most important investors the best possible experience of investing in the UK.
This is a wide-ranging role where you will get to develop new skills and build on existing ones to increase investment opportunities and shape the wider Government policies investors will operate under.
This role requires a broad skills base, including commercial judgement, problem solving, project management, numerical fluency, and the ability to form collaborative relationships both with clients and across Government.
You will have the confidence to engage directly with varied stakeholders across all levels of seniority, including: established and new businesses, investors, colleagues overseas, sector specialists, DBT Senior Leadership, and Ministers.
Project Delivery: As a member of the OfI’s Deal Making Unit, you will be responsible for leading and delivering high value commercial investment projects and providing a bespoke service to some of the world’s largest investors. This will involve:
- Driving creative, novel solutions to barriers to investment (including often a need to challenge the status quo)
- Leading and convening cross-departmental projects teams to align different Government policy areas behind strategic, high-value investment projects
- Working with industry experts to inform the UK strategy for investment promotion across different policy areas
- Scoping and delivering project milestones
Investor Mindset: You will form collaborative and trusted relationships with the world’s top investors, providing guidance on complex policy areas, helping them to understand what changes and advancements in the UK policy landscape means to their business models and where appropriate, working with them to shape their UK market entry/expansion strategies.
Investment Promotion: You will be proactive in understanding the UK landscape and the nation’s competitive advantage to promote the UK as a leading investment destination, developing bespoke pitches with confidence to attract inward investment conversations from global investors.
Influencing Policy Development: You will have the confidence to work and, where appropriate, lead cross-Government working groups to shape Government policy, translating investor feedback, particularly barriers to investment, into tangible solutions and in tandem thinking creatively about investment opportunities which catalyse private sector investment.
Advising Ministers and No.10: For those projects within the Deal Making Unit, you will lead on written and, where suitable, verbal briefings for Ministers and No.10 teams to inform strategic decisions on investment negotiations that sit at the heart of Government.
Corporate responsibility: Contribute to the effective management of the deal making team, fostering high performance and collaborative team culture. This may include people orientated activities such as resourcing, team budgets and finances and people development.
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