Lead Project Manager, Competitive Intelligence

NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale generators of electricity, leveraging all forms of energy across renewables, storage and nuclear. We offer customized energy solutions that drive economic growth, protect the environment, support communities, and help customers meet their energy needs. Ready to make a lasting impact? Join our innovative, world-class team today!

 

Position Specific Description

We're looking for a curious, strategic thinker to join our growing Competitive Intelligence team. As a Competitive Intelligence Analyst, you’ll track, analyze, and interpret competitor strategies, policy changes, pricing trends, and broader market dynamics to help NextEra stay ahead in a rapidly evolving renewable energy landscape.

Your research will reinforce competitive intelligence across development, origination, and commercial strategy—helping us anticipate shifts, seize opportunities, and strengthen our competitive positioning. You will build informative dashboards, validate results, vet tools and data, and have a real impact on decision making across the NEER organization.

What You’ll Do:
•    Conduct Market Research: Partner with market Intelligence to monitor and analyze competitor strategies, financial standing, pricing trends, partnerships, and market expansion across technologies and geographies.
•    Monitor Market Trends: Assist in researching regulatory developments, transmission trends, pricing movements, and other market signals affecting renewable energy development.
•    Support Regional Research: Work closely with regional Competitive Intelligence Leads to track interconnection queues, permitting activity, competitor pipelines, and development trends across U.S. regions (e.g., CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, PJM, SPP).
•    Develop and Maintain Intelligence Tools: Help maintain databases, dashboards, visualizations and reports to make intelligence accessible and actionable.
•    Visualize and Communicate Insights: Draft high-quality research briefs, competitor profiles, and presentations that synthesize findings for internal stakeholders.
•    Support Strategic Analysis: Contribute to cross-functional analyses and ad hoc strategic projects to evaluate competitive positioning, market opportunities, and project risks.
•    Collaborate Cross-functionally: Work across teams to ensure intelligence efforts are tightly integrated with business needs and support project-level and portfolio-wide decisions.

What You Bring:
•    3+ years in market research, strategy or competitive intelligence - ideally in energy, infrastructure, or a related field.
•    Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to identify trends, connect dots, and synthesize findings.
•    Experience with Excel and PowerPoint; proficiency in SQL, Python, R, PowerBi, or GIS a plus
•    Comfort working with large datasets and pulling insights from multiple sources

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 timely 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
• 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
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad/GED
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• Experience:  3+ years 

Preferred Qualifications

• None

 

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