Category Specialist

NextEra Energy • Juno Beach, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Florida Power & Light Company’s Operating Fleet Sourcing Department, within the Engineering, Construction & Supply Chain Business Unit, is seeking a Senior Category Specialist to join its team in Juno Beach, Florida. The role has significant visibility with senior leadership and often provides recommendations and develops strategy for large areas of company spend. It sits at the intersection of analytics and strategy and involves using digital tools and artificial intelligence to support the work.

The Senior Category Specialist owns end-to-end category strategy and continually develops and executes value levers. The role calls for analytical rigor, commercial creativity, ownership, and the ability to form and test hypotheses and execute strategies. The successful candidate will interpret spend and market data, forecast demand and industry trends, and translate analysis into recommendations and measurable value, including cost reduction, cost avoidance, and rebate opportunities. They will deliver category initiatives, savings, supplier-performance improvements, and risk mitigation while connecting sourcing strategies to financial and operational outcomes. The position requires effective partnerships across business units, leadership, and suppliers, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• Proven experience planning and delivering end-to-end category initiatives, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks, and maintaining a consistent intake-to-award cadence.
• A track record of delivering savings, improving supplier performance, and mitigating risk through disciplined reporting and follow-through.
• Strong financial acumen and the ability to connect category strategies to P&L impact, business risk, and operational outcomes.
• Ability to build partnerships across business units, leadership, and suppliers and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Proven ability to engage senior leaders.
• Deep supplier-management experience, including market mapping, strategic partnerships, RFx events, bid evaluation, negotiation of pricing, terms, and SLAs, and management of performance scorecards and corrective actions.
• High proficiency with analytical tools and ability to turn complex datasets into actionable insights.
• Ability to interpret spend and market data, forecast demand and industry trends, and translate analysis into recommendations and measurable value.
• Ability to form and pressure-test hypotheses and execute with ownership, analytical rigor, and commercial creativity.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end category strategy and continually develop and execute value levers.
• Interpret spend and market data, forecast demand and industry trends, and convert analysis into recommendations and measurable value.
• Plan and deliver end-to-end category initiatives, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks and maintaining a consistent intake-to-award cadence.
• Deliver savings, improve supplier performance, and mitigate risk through disciplined reporting and follow-through.
• Connect category strategies to P&L impact, business risk, and operational outcomes.
• Build partnerships with business-unit stakeholders, leadership, and suppliers; translate business objectives into sourcing strategies and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Engage senior stakeholders and provide recommendations that inform business decisions.
• Manage suppliers through market mapping, strategic partnership development, RFx events, bid evaluation, pricing and terms negotiation, SLA negotiation, performance scorecards, and corrective actions.
• Use analytical tools to convert complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed