Senior Strategy Manager, Transmission Projects
NextEra Energy, Inc. · Juno Beach, FL · 1 mo ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Lead periodic enterprise strategy refreshes, including market sizing, competitive positioning, and thesis-driven growth narratives for NEET’s North American footprint.
- Develop clear perspectives on macro trends (e.g., load growth, reliability, policy, technology, and interconnection dynamics) and implications for transmission investment.
- Build decision frameworks and business cases that translate insights into actionable recommendations for leadership.
- Partner with Finance and functional leaders to inform capital allocation strategy and long-range planning.
- Identify, scope, and lead cross-functional transformational initiatives that improve how NEET originates, evaluates, and advances opportunities (from ideation through implementation).
- Translate ambiguous problems into structured workplans, hypotheses, and measurable success criteria; drive delivery against timelines and stakeholder expectations.
- Design and implement scalable processes, governance, and reporting to increase speed, clarity, and accountability across the commercial lifecycle.
- Leverage and manage AI agents to accelerate research, drafting, synthesis, and routine analytics; establish quality controls and human-in-the-loop review to ensure accuracy and business relevance.
- Develop change management plans and executive-ready communications to support adoption and sustained performance.
Key Success Metrics
- Clear, decision-ready enterprise strategy and market perspectives delivered on cadence (and ahead of key investment / planning cycles).
- A well-defined, actively managed commercial pipeline with transparent stage gates, ownership, and up-to-date prioritization aligned to NEET’s growth objectives.
- Transformational initiatives executed with measurable impact (e.g., cycle-time reduction, improved capital efficiency, increased win rate, enhanced cross-functional alignment).
- High-confidence recommendations supported by rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and concise executive communication.
The Ideal Candidate
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Comfort sharing preliminary analyses, soliciting early input, and iterating quickly based on ambiguous or evolving feedback.
- Experience in energy, infrastructure, utilities, or adjacent capital-intensive industries preferred; liner infrastructure and transmission development experience is a strong plus.
- Leadership Attributes & Core Competencies:
- Exceptional creative and critical thinking: frames problems well, tests assumptions, and synthesizes insights into clear actions.
- Innovation mindset with a bias for improvement: consistently identifies better ways to operate and helps teams adopt them.
- Strong business and financial acumen; comfort with portfolio trade-offs and risk/return thinking in capital-intensive environments.
- Executive-ready communication: concise writing, clear storytelling, and ability to present complex topics to senior leaders.
- Stakeholder management and influence: builds trust across diverse teams and drives alignment without formal authority.
- Digital fluency: proficiency with modern analytics and productivity tools; experience building with and using AI (including AI agents) is a plus, not required.
Job Overview
- Employees in this role develop and execute plans for new and 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 result.
- Leads and coordinates key functions such as financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities and financial negotiations.
- Maintains coordination 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.
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad/GED.
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience.
- Experience: 5+ years.