Overview
Manager - Product Development
Homes England | National Housing Bank
£51,076 - £59,970 | Hybrid | Location: Hybrid (Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Northstowe)
Homes England is launching the National Housing Bank, a new government-backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England.
The National Housing Bank is a new government-backed financial institution within Homes England. With £16bn in capital, it will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up.
The Manager - Product Development will be a key member of a team responsible for generating, designing and transacting financial products that use the National Housing Bank (NHB)\'s £5.5bn guarantee capacity to support its housing and regeneration objectives.
The opportunity: Guarantee products will be designed to address market failure within the housing sector. This is a market-facing role focused on new product design that furthers the objectives of the NHB and responds to market failure.
Responsibilities
* Support the origination, structuring and development of Homes England guarantee opportunities to attract private investment, ensuring alignment with risk appetite, operational, financial and policy objectives.
* Assist in structuring guarantee transactions and liaising with potential partners, senior colleagues and advisors, ensuring due diligence, regulatory compliance and effective negotiations.
* Contribute to the design, operation, and documentation of governance, risk and reporting arrangements, providing analysis and data for wider teams.
* Provide insights, analysis and drafting to support business plans, strategy papers, product development and government/internal colleagues on guarantee liabilities.
* Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders while developing knowledge of housing policy, markets and finance.
* Take responsibility for personal skills development, sharing best practices, and improving team tools, processes and ways of working.
Candidate profile
* Support product development and NHB leadership while clearly communicating logic and rationale to all stakeholders.
* Assist in negotiating deal structure, pricing, covenants and information undertakings aligned with the guarantor\'s risk appetite.
* Form, articulate, and defend credit views on assets, borrowers, or structures, coordinating and integrating technical, legal, ESG and appraisal reports.
* Draft clear, concise credit/guarantee memos and investment committee papers with actionable recommendations.
* Apply debt structuring, capital markets knowledge and residential property valuation (DCF, IRR, yields, cap rates) to inform credit and guarantee decisions.
* Manage internal risk, regulatory and rating constraints; review legal documents (term sheets, facility agreements, guarantees) and identify key risk points.
Why join?
* Help build a new national investment institution
* Work on complex housing and regeneration transactions
* Deploy £16bn of government-backed capital
* Hybrid working across multiple UK locations
* Defined benefit pension and strong public-sector benefits
Full job description is available at the provided link in the original posting.
Closing date: 12th April 2026. Right to Work in the UK is required.
Contact point for applicants
Name: Rebecca Nolan
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Recruitment team
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References
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