Senior Manager, Real Estate Development & Investment

The Port of Portland is hiring a Senior Manager, Real Estate Development & Investment The Port of Portland is hiring a Senior Manager, Real Estate Development & Investment, who will lead the strategic development and real estate investment initiatives that strengthen the Port’s commercial, financial, and regional economic position. This role transforms the Port’s industrial and marine portfolio into an engine for innovation, equity, and long-term enterprise value through complex real estate projects, partnerships, and investment strategies. Working closely with the Director of Marine & Commercial Development and cross-functional teams, the Senior Manager shapes development strategy, structures funding solutions, and drives high-impact projects that advance the Port’s competitiveness, sustainability, and financial performance. From the hiring manager: I cannot imagine a more amazing opportunity for someone who loves purposeful commercial real estate. This person will get to design and implement development and investment strategies across the marine and commercial development portfolio. Believe it or not, this role is tailor-made for someone who sees real estate strategy as part art, part analysis, and who loves solving big, complex development puzzles that include shared prosperity outcomes as part of the goals. You’ll get to shape investment and development across the Port’s marine and commercial portfolio, helping turn ambitious ideas into funded, buildable projects that create long-term value for the communities we serve.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Development & Investment Leadership

• Design and implement development and investment strategies across the marine and commercial development portfolio.
• Lead structuring of transactions that generate long-term enterprise value.
• Partner with developers, investors, and public agencies to leverage capital and accelerate project delivery.
• Align due diligence and planning efforts with market, financial, and policy objectives.

Program Oversight and Financial Stewardship

• Collaborate with Port internal teams--Finance and Planning—to oversee financial modelling, performance analysis, and capital planning for development initiatives.
• Inform real estate investment prioritisation, manage project risk and return, and ensure alignment with enterprise capital and policy goals.
• Provide strategic guidance on risk management, return on investment, and cost optimisation to inform executive and Commission-level decisions.

Regional Economic Development & Policy Alignment

• Working with the Port’s Economic Development director and public affairs team, collaborate[TC1] with regional, state, and local partners to align economic development priorities, attract investment, and shape strategies that promote inclusive growth.
• Lead the marine and commercial development department’s engagement[TC2] in policy analysis and advocacy that strengthens the region’s traded-sector ecosystem and infrastructure.

Analytics, Reporting & Market Intelligence

• Strengthen the Port’s economic and market analytics capacity to inform business decisions, strategic priorities, and investment.
• Monitor emerging trends affecting economic opportunities and competitiveness and recommend adaptive strategies.

Innovation, Growth, and Regional Collaboration

• Apply creative finance and development tools such as land banking and public benefit models—to drive equitable and sustainable growth.
• Represent the Port in regional and statewide efforts to align industrial strategy, infrastructure funding, and investment.

Full position description available upon request.

• Ten (10) + years of progressively responsible experience in commercial real estate development, investment, or economic development.
• Five (5) + years of management experience in complex public or private organizations
• Demonstrated success in structuring complex transactions, public-private partnerships, or major capital projects
• Bachelor’s Degree – Business, real estate, finance, economics, urban planning, or related field (additional experience may substitute for the education qualifications).
• Master's Degree (preferred, not required) in Business, real estate, finance, economics, or urban planning, or related field.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Advanced experience with Commercial Real estate development, financing, and investment strategies, including public-private partnerships and joint ventures
• Advanced experience in infrastructure and site readiness planning processes
• Advanced experience in industrial real estate market trends and traded-sector dynamics
• Advanced experience in Federal, state, and local land-use and permitting regulations

Tentative schedule:

• A minimum qualification evaluation of the education, training, and experience of submitted application packets will take place by Human Resources until this role closes on 12/29/2025.
• A Subject Matter Expert (SME) Panel will perform an evaluation of experience and training taken from your employment application materials.
• Our goal is to notify candidates who are selected for interviews by 12/31/2025. We will then schedule virtual first round of interviews with candidates who successfully passed the SME evaluation at the beginning of January. Panel Interviews will be held afterward.

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