Senior Portfolio Manager - #1685736

Location: Sheffield

Contract: FTC (6 months)

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office

Salary: Band G/ £52,500 to £58,750 depending on experience and location

Key Benefits

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• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
• 15% employer pension contribution
• Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
• Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
• Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
  
  

The Role

As a Senior Portfolio Manager, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing a diverse portfolio of venture and growth-stage investments, with a strong focus on equity funds and direct investments. Acting as a key liaison between investment teams and internal stakeholders, you will lead the end-to-end management of the portfolio lifecycle—delivering high-quality analysis, insightful reporting, and robust valuation materials to support strategic decision-making. This role involves close collaboration with colleagues across Sheffield and London, as well as engagement with fund managers and portfolio companies.

Experience

You’ll drive process improvements, champion technological solutions to enhance workflows and data integrity, and lead on the implementation of our Responsible Investment Policy. If you are motivated by impactful work and keen to help shape the future of portfolio management at the British Business Bank, this is your opportunity to make a significant contribution.

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About British Business Bank

The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy.

Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively.

With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals.

As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified).

At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds.

As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.