Director Strategic Initiatives - Development Strategy

NextEra Energy•Juno Beach, FL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Development Strategy will lead strategic projects, reporting analytics, and collaboration on NEER Development’s annual strategy. This on-site position is within NextEra Energy Resources’ Generation & Storage Solutions organization and reports to the Executive Director. This highly visible role involves supporting the collaboration and development of an annual corporate strategy presentation for the organization and participating in various strategic initiatives. The Director of Development Strategy is tasked with leveraging management consulting skills to collaborate with internal NextEra leaders throughout all stages of strategy development and strategic projects. This collaboration is aimed at providing thought leadership, driving execution, and supporting the realization of the organization’s objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
10+ years of experience
4+ years of Supervisor/Management Experience
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)
Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder management abilities
Ability to solve complex problems with deeply thought-out solutions
Excellent analytical and decision-making skills
Strong financial acumen
Proven leader that builds trust and takes responsibility 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

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree

Responsibilities

Supporting the design and creation of the overall strategy for NextEra’s Development organization
Working closely with senior leadership to develop business strategy and assist in crafting the narrative on the future direction
Partnering cross-functionally with other business units to drive analysis on key topics and understand the implications of their strategy on future development
Conducting detailed market assessments to understand expected future demand and market drivers by region, technology, and customer type
Identifying the strategy opportunities that will drive growth, generate the highest value, and create future competitive advantage
Assessing the current development pipeline and matching it against targets to understand gaps and develop our greenfield and M&A strategy
Collaborating with regional development leaders to identify business issues critical to their strategic and operational success
Presenting progress on solutions to leadership including relevant analysis, findings, and recommendations
Developing tactical execution steps, resourcing requirements, and operational enablers to execute on the outlined strategy
Support CEO priorities and analysis on critical issues impacting the development portfolio
Developing analysis and recommendations on macro issues impacting the development portfolio including impact from new legislation, tariffs, permitting changes, etc.
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 energy projects across the development portfolio
Developing relationships with business leaders and engaging in continuous dialogue to gather feedback, improve processes, and influence outcomes
Providing thought leadership and execution support on client assignments to craft strategy and then refocus an organization on making that strategy a reality
Consulting with clients to identify, clarify, and solve problems critical to clients' strategic and operating success by developing insight, conducting independent analysis, and working with clients to assure assignment progress
Developing conclusions and recommendations, writing reports, assisting in client presentations and providing implementation assistance as required
Presenting to senior executives
Constructing the analytical framework and work steps for each assignment, and leading the problem solving associated
Conducting both client and market development to grow the business
Performs other job-related duties as assigned