Project Director Development

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Date: Jan 6, 2026

Company: Next Era Energy

Requisition : 92698

Next Era Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!

Position Specific Description

Next Era Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a company headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida Next Era 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.

Next Era Energy also owns a competitive clean energy business, Next Era 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, Next Era Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from seven commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin.

In 2020, Next Era 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, Next Era Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. Next Era 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 Next Era Energy’s Development organization. The position is on-site and sits within Next Era’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 Next Era, 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 Next Era 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…