Investment Manager / Senior Manager - Investment Strategy

Our client is seeking a high-performing investment professional to join a leading investment platform focused on originating, assessing and progressing investment opportunities across a diverse range of sectors. The role offers exposure to a broad range of transactions, investment themes and stakeholder groups, making it ideal for individuals who combine strong commercial acumen with exceptional relationship and stakeholder management skills.

This is a highly visible role sitting at the centre of the investment process. You will be responsible for evaluating inbound opportunities, building and maintaining strong commercial relationships with corporates, investors, advisers and industry participants, and working closely with internal investment, legal, risk and governance teams to progress opportunities through the investment lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Investment Screening & Assessment

- Manage the intake, review and assessment of investment opportunities.
- Conduct initial commercial, financial and strategic analysis to determine investment suitability and alignment with investment objectives.
- Identify key risks, opportunities and value drivers associated with prospective transactions.
- Undertake market, industry and competitor analysis to support investment decision-making.
- Maintain a disciplined approach to pipeline management, ensuring high-quality opportunities are effectively assessed and prioritised.

Relationship Management & Business Development

- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with corporates, financial sponsors, advisers, lenders, investors and industry participants.
- Act as a key external representative of the organisation and contribute to the development of a strong market presence.




- Build and manage networks that support the generation of high-quality investment opportunities.
- Engage regularly with counterparties throughout the evaluation and transaction process.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen commercial relationships and expand investment origination channels.

Stakeholder Management & Investment Execution Support

- Partner closely with investment professionals, legal counsel, risk teams and other internal stakeholders throughout the investment process.
- Coordinate due diligence, information requests and transaction workstreams across multiple parties.
- Prepare and contribute to investment papers, committee materials and senior stakeholder presentations.
- Facilitate efficient progression of opportunities through internal review and approval processes.
- Build alignment across stakeholders while maintaining strong governance and risk disciplines.

Market Insights & Strategic Analysis

- Monitor market developments, industry trends and emerging investment opportunities.
- Generate insights to support investment strategy, opportunity sourcing and pipeline development.
- Maintain robust reporting, pipeline tracking and management information to support decision-making.

Ideal Candidate Skillset: You are commercially astute, intellectually curious and thrive in environments where investment judgement, relationship management and stakeholder coordination are equally important.

You possess strong analytical capabilities,



sound commercial judgement and the ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders both internally and externally. You are comfortable assessing complex opportunities, influencing outcomes and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced investment environment.

Skills & Experience

- Experience evaluating investment, transaction or strategic opportunities.
- Strong commercial and financial analysis capability.
- Demonstrated ability to assess risk, opportunity and strategic fit across a range of investment situations.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Experience navigating complex organisations and coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Robust written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive-level materials.
- Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, transaction-oriented environment.

Ideal Background We are particularly interested in candidates from:

- Top-tier strategy consulting firms.
- Corporate finance, M&A; or transactions advisory teams.
- Restructuring and turnaround advisory firms.
- Investment banking.
- Infrastructure, private equity or private credit platforms.
- Principal investing, special situations or investment management firms.
- Big Four Deals, Transactions or Strategy practices.

Candidates who have developed a blend of transaction experience, commercial judgement, stakeholder management and analytical rigour will be particularly well suited to this opportunity. We are committed to providing a supportive culture and positively contributing towards creating diverse and inclusive workplaces for our candidates & clients. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply.

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