Manager Origination

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Manager, Origination & Structuring Strategic Role in Enabling Clean, Reliable, and Customer-Aligned Energy Solutions

The

Manager, Origination & Structuring

plays a critical leadership role in advancing Portland General Electric’s clean energy transformation and delivering on the company’s strategic resource, customer, and policy objectives. This position is responsible for shaping and executing commercial strategies that support cost-effective resource development, transmission expansion, and customer-driven clean energy solutions, while navigating complex regulatory, policy, and market dynamics.

The role leads origination and negotiation of structured energy transactions—including power purchase agreements (PPAs), asset acquisitions, and joint development partnerships—to secure flexible, reliable, and emissions-free energy supply. It oversees commercial structuring to optimize risk allocation, capture federal and state incentives, and ensure alignment with PGE’s integrated resource and capacity planning.

This leader also plays a key role in enabling infrastructure investments by advancing regulatory strategies that support regional transmission development and integration of clean resources. The position works cross-functionally with internal teams—including legal, regulatory, external affairs, and planning—and engages with counterparties, developers, policymakers, communities, and regional market participants to influence transmission policy and market design.

In addition, the Manager is accountable for supporting the development of customer-facing clean energy products that empower large and small customers to meet their decarbonization goals. This includes structuring offerings such as voluntary renewable programs, subscription-based supply models, and customized solutions for large loads and emerging sectors.

By bridging commercial execution, policy enablement, and customer priorities, this role is instrumental in positioning PGE to deliver on affordability, reliability, and clean energy leadership, while unlocking value for customers and supporting sustainable growth.

Job Function Summary

Leads commercial and strategic approach for maximizing value and effectively managing risks associated with PGE’s power supply portfolio. Develops structured proposals for deals involving any combination of energy (electric, gas and services) that provide mid- to long-term strategies for fueling power plants and effectively managing power supply portfolio. Develops models and market strategies to assess economic value and price risks inherent in complex transactions and negotiations across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities Manage Origination, Structuring and Resource Strategy Functions and Staff :

Manages one area within Commercial Initiatives; oversees full origination process over areas managed, including planning and oversight, research and analysis, negotiations, and transactions; ensures contracts and agreements align to Integrated Resource Plan and overall company goals; oversees portfolio management; participates in development of long term goals for area overseen; represents PGE or manages staff in representing PGE with stakeholders, regulators and other key constituents; provides direction and management to team.

Manage Resource Procurement and Power Supply Asset Disposition Strategy :

Participates in development of strategies specific to area overseen; provides guidance to team in reducing cost and minimizing risk to provide a long-term energy supply in alignment with PGE plans; ensures contracts mitigate cost-recovery and shareholder risk; collaborates with others within PGE including Generation, Customer, Rates and Regulatory Affairs, Power Operations and Integrated Resource Planning to ensure sourcing aligns to overall plan and strategy, is compliant from a regulatory standpoint, and is feasible to execute; prepares assessments, presentations and recommendations to executives staff with respect to power supply risks and commercial opportunities.

Manage Origination & Structuring Activities:

Leads with direction from Senior Manager/Director commercial staff and matrix teams in evaluating, negotiating and executing complex, high-impact and/or strategically important transactions and agreements across the enterprise; manages staff in acquiring or divesting power supply assets action items identified in the Integrated Resource Plan Action Plan or bilaterally, including development and issuance of requests for proposals (RFPs); leads obtaining regulatory approvals for activities and filings related to power supply/resource strategy, procurement, asset acquisitions and divestitures and structured energy products trading.

Functional Leadership:

Exercises well developed functional and industry knowledge in specialized areas; manages standard business problems; exercises delegated authority over planning, direction and timely execution of a function or program within the organization; establishes and maintains contacts with others in and outside the company and at government agencies in accomplishing function or program objectives.

Financial Management:

Participates in setting strategy and develops plans, policies and processes for the accounting, budgeting and, where applicable, charging of department resources and services, including the definition of cost models and charging models; sets, negotiates, approves and manages all financial budgets and targets, ensuring that there is adequate funding for department objectives and plans.

Resourcing:

Oversees workforce planning and resource strategy for department, ensuring that there is adequate skilled resource to meet planned service delivery or department objectives; responsible for recruitment, development and demand forecasts for department.

Professional Development:

Determines organizational development needs in line with business needs of department; generates development strategies to achieve required change; monitors progress and evaluates business benefits achieved.

Education/Experience/Certifications Education

Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, economics, business or other related field or equivalent experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Experience

Typically 8 or more years of utility experience in power operations, generation project/business development, resource planning, energy commodity trading and marketing, economic forecasting, accounting, finance or regulatory affairs or related field.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities) Functional Competencies

Expert knowledge of electric utility economics and energy policy issues

Expert knowledge of utility regulatory requirements (rates, siting, environmental) and rate structure

Expert knowledge of wholesale energy markets

Advanced knowledge of utility accounting, revenue requirements, economic analysis techniques, load concepts and power supply dispatch models

Advanced knowledge of the operating and financial characteristics of commercially available electric generation resource alternatives

Intermediate to advanced skills in negotiating and executing high-value energy contracts and asset purchase and sale agreements

Working knowledge of electrical and natural gas transmission, distribution and storage facilities/technologies

Working skills in applying statistical analysis for business decision-making (volatility and correlation analysis, Monte Carlo simulation)

General Competencies

Advanced analytical thinking skills

Advanced decision-making skills

Advanced influence skills

Advanced interpersonal skills

Advanced negotiation skills

Advanced organization and prioritization skills

Advanced presentation and facilitation skills

Advanced problem-solving skills

Advanced written and oral communication skills

Leader Practices

Drives Results

Plans and Aligns

Decision Quality

Drives Engagement

Courage

Physical and Cognitive Demands Cognitive Level Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).

Cognitive

Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks

Ability to follow accuracy standards

Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress

Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback

Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement

Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks

Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization

Demonstrates sound memory

Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

Schedule/Attendance

Ability to work long hours

Ability to work a variable schedule

Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather

Physical Capabilities

Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Occasionally

(one to two times a month or less)

Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)

Environment - Indoor

Office – Hybrid – 3 days minimum in office

Compensation Range:

$130,900.00 - $243,100.00

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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