Supporting your growth
strategic account management
With combined experience in sales, customer services and business development spanning 80 years, Invest Manchester’s strategic account management team is focussed on building strong ongoing relationships with large foreign-owned investors to provide free and confidential support across all business areas.
The team can assist with helping your business overcome challenges – from building business cases to help grow investment in the region, to recruiting exceptional talent and opening up unique collaboration and innovation opportunities.
How we can help you
To ensure you receive the right tailored support needed for your business to overcome challenges, grow and reinvest, our strategic account management team will:
- With close links to Greater Manchester’s local authorities, provide local on-the-ground expertise and connections
- Support with talent acquisition – skills, graduates, apprenticeships and placements
- With cross-sector expertise, easily help you identify new business opportunities
- Help you access a network of international connections who can support your firm wherever your overseas HQ is located
- Assist you in building key trade relationships for your import and export goals
- Supply key information on how to access the right finance and funding
- Support your innovation goals by advising on the best R&D facilities and university collaboration opportunities
- Amplify your business successes through marketing and PR – locally, nationally and internationally
What People Say About Us
“Invest Manchester has been a key partner throughout our recent journey of growth and prosperity. Their constant support across all aspects of our business, via both their expansive local and national networks has been pivotal to this success. By fostering invaluable connections and offering expert business guidance across all sectors from recruitment to technology advancements, they have played a crucial role into helping to fuel our ongoing expansion.”
Dr Mike Draper, Director of Strategic Operations, Kadant UK Ltd
Sector Expertise
Manchester isn’t just a great UK city, it’s a globally connected powerhouse.
Advanced materials & manufacturing
Home to global leaders in sustainable packaging, technical textiles, surfaces and coatings, composites and light alloy, the city is driving the next industrial revolution.
Creative & media
Greater Manchester is the UK’s leading creative and media cluster outside London, with a £5bn ecosystem where world-class creativity collides with advanced technology.
Financial, professional & business services
Greater Manchester is home to the largest financial, professional and business services (FPBS) sector outside London, contributing 20% of the local economy.
Life sciences & health innovation
Greater Manchester is one of the UK’s leading life sciences regions, combining world-class clinical research, real-world data excellence and a uniquely connected health and innovation ecosystem.
Low carbon
Greater Manchester is fast-tracking to carbon neutrality by 2038, creating major opportunities in clean energy, hydrogen, batteries and smart systems within a live urban testbed for scalable low carbon innovation.
Digital, cyber & AI
With world-class businesses, a deep tech talent pool and strong industry collaboration, Greater Manchester is a city region where digital ideas scale globally.
