Manager - Origination

DTE Energy • Glen Allen, MO

6d • Remote

About The Position

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.  But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences, and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
Job SummaryLocation: Richmond, VA

The Manager, Gas Origination is responsible for developing and maintaining all necessary external business relationships. This position leads development of new relationships and grows existing relationships to ensure profitability in line with the company’s business plans, objectives, and strategies. Responsibilities also include oversight and coordination of a team of originators and their business development. Working collaboratively with Trading, Structuring, Originators, Gas Scheduling and other assigned teams, the successful candidate will build a dynamic footprint and collaborate on daily, monthly, seasonal, annual, and multi-year purchases, sales, transportation commitments, storage plays, customer development and peaking opportunities proactively. The ability to lead development through simultaneously coordinating numerous tasks is required to turn their region into a significant profit generator.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university
• 7 years of experience in natural gas sales, distribution, marketing, trading, or origination

Nice To Haves

• Thorough understanding of the physical natural gas grid
• Understanding of financial tools available to manage risks associated with deal structures and harvesting of embedded optionality
• Demonstrated success growing critical mass over multi-month and multiyear intervals
• Ability to persevere during the development and introduction of new products, geographies, and services as part of a performance-based organization that values input and challenge from all team members impacted
• Excellent oral and communication skills
• Working knowledge of Windows based software applications, including Word and Excel

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage business with a focus on key customer relationships
• Cultivate a key book of business serving as the lead deal maker
• Develop strategic plans for specific region
• Serve as internal and external expert and sponsor in market areas of interest
• Understand legal, regulatory, and structuring concepts impacting customer and market development
• Ensure all relevant internal controls are followed and develop new controls as needed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees