Senior Manager Development Strategy

NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a company headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light Company, which is the largest rate-regulated electric utility in the United States as measured by retail electricity produced and sold, and serves more than 5.6 million customer accounts, supporting more than 11 million residents across Florida with clean, reliable and affordable electricity. NextEra Energy also owns a competitive clean energy business, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from seven commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. In 2020, NextEra had revenues of approximately $18.2 billion and a market cap $170 billion and employed nearly 15,000 employees throughout the US and Canada.

A Fortune 200 company and included in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. NextEra Energy is ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry on Fortune's 2020 list of "World's Most Admired Companies" and received the S&P Global Platts 2020 Energy Transition Award for leadership in environmental, social and governance.

Job Description

The Senior Manager Development - Strategy will lead internal strategy projects and strategy development for NextEra Energy's Development organization. The position is on-site and sits within NextEra's Development group, reporting to the Executive Director Development, Strategy.

This highly visible role involves supporting the creation and development of the annual corporate strategy presentations for the Development team and participating in a variety of key development-specific strategic initiatives. Working closely with the Executive Director, the Senior Manager will support design and build out of the overall strategy for the development organization at NextEra, which involves:

• Supporting the setting of the agenda for annual infrastructure development strategy session.
• Working closely with the senior leadership team in Infrastructure Development to develop the business strategy and assist in crafting the narrative on the future direction
• Conducting detailed market assessment to understand expected future demand and market drivers by region, technology and customer type.
• Identifying the strategic opportunities that will drive growth, generate the highest value, and create future competitive advantage for NextEra Energy Resources.
• Understanding current value/ profit pools, and how are they likely to evolve in the future to outline where to play - by regions and customers - to maximize value creation and define market share targets.
• Evaluating and identifying strategic customers to target based on return potential, size of the opportunity and ability to win
• Assessing current development pipeline and matching it against targets to understand gaps and develop our greenfield and M&A strategy to address the gaps.
• Collaborating with the regional development leaders to identify business issues critical to their strategic and operational success.
• Partnering cross-functionally with other business units to drive analysis on cross-functional topics and understand implications of their strategy on the Infrastructure Development organization.
• Developing tactical execution next steps, resourcing requirements and operational enablers needed to address critical issues and execute on the outlined strategy.
• Presenting progress on solutions to leadership, including relevant analysis, findings, and recommendations.

Additionally, the Senior Manager also plays a pivotal role in developing and refining the process to maximize value from our development portfolio, which involves:

• Collaborating with Development and Origination leaders to identify critical issues, trade-offs and process checks needed to steer and position projects proactively to maximize value creation.
• Providing thought leadership and execution support to craft strategies and initiatives to improve and maximize value for renewable energy projects across the development portfolio (wind, solar, and battery).
• Constructing the analytical framework and work steps for identified issues, and leading the problem-solving process associated.
• Developing relationships with business leaders and operators and engaging in continuous dialogue to gather feedback, improve processes, and influence outcomes.
• Possessing enough quantitative experience to effectively evaluate strategic initiatives, including project valuation, cost-benefit analysis, scenario analysis, NPV (Net Present Value), and IRR (Internal Rate of Return).
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

The Senior Manager is tasked with leveraging management consulting skills to collaborate with internal NextEra leaders throughout all stages of strategy development and strategic initiatives. This collaboration is aimed at providing thought leadership, driving execution, and supporting the realization of organization's strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree preferred
• Experience: 8+ years
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with deeply thought-out solutions
• Excellent analytical and decision making skills
• Strong financial acumen
• Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder management abilities
• Proven leader that builds trust and takes responsibilities for project outcomes
• High level of comfort with fast-paced and constantly evolving environments
• Intellectually curious individual who can learn new topics fast
• Highly organized and deadline driven individual
• Expertise in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel

Job Overview

Employees in this role develop and execute plans for new or enhanced generation projects. This job is responsible for resource allocation, schedules, cost and technical adequacy, ensuring the project or transaction is completed in the most cost effective and competitive manner. This position manages all aspects of the business deal and ensures the project is completed on time and within budgetary constraints.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages all aspects of the day to day transaction process to ensure timely completion as well as a cost effective and competitive results
• Leads and coordinates key functions such as financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities and financial negotiations
• Coordinates due diligence activities with other internal groups to ensure proper analysis and structuring of assigned projects
• Acts as liaison between internal and external specialists regarding procurement, contracting, permitting and interconnection
• Constructs contractual arrangements for project development
• Negotiates agreements with consultants and subcontractors
• Ensures compliance with applicable technical and regulatory requirements
• Fosters external relationships with customers, third parties and members of the community
• Identifies opportunities and negotiates power sales contracts
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad /GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 7+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• None

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Business Development
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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