NextEra Energy

Director Commercial Development

NextEra Energy$150K — $180K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in commercial development or related field
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
  • Expertise in LLCA structuring and governance provisions
  • Strong negotiation leadership for economic and structural terms
  • Advanced financial modeling capabilities, including scenario analysis
  • Experience in structuring deals in the residential solar space
  • Ability to integrate diverse cross-functional inputs into cohesive deal structures

Responsibilities

  • Own the commercial structure for strategic partnerships
  • Lead partnership economic frameworks and tradeoff analysis
  • Incorporate new value streams into deal structures
  • Negotiate key economic and structural terms
  • Collaborate with legal to ensure agreements reflect business intent
  • Work across functions to ensure partnership viability and alignment
  • Translate market opportunities into scalable partnership models
  • Provide executive leadership with clear recommendations on partnership economics

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans
  • Retirement savings plans with company match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Relocation assistance for eligible employees
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
Full Job Description
Position Specific Description

Position Overview
The Director of Commercial Development leads the structuring, negotiation, and evolution of complex commercial partnerships that support EverBright's growth. The role combines deal architecture, financial modeling, and cross-functional leadership to develop scalable partnership structures, negotiate key economic and governance terms, and translate market opportunities into executable commercial models.

Key Responsibilities
• Owns the commercial structure for strategic partnerships, including ownership, governance, economics, and other core deal terms
• Leads partnership economic frameworks, including sensitivities and scenario analysis used for evaluating tradeoffs and informing executive decisions
• Incorporates new value streams such as VPP, grid services, and other monetization opportunities into deal structures and partner economics
• Leads negotiation of key economic and structural terms, including pricing, value allocation, risk sharing, and governance
• Partners with legal to translate business intent into agreement language and preserve the intended economics and governance
• Works across finance, tax, legal, risk, compliance, product, supply, and operations to ensure the structure is viable, scalable, and aligned internally
• Translates market opportunities and strategic priorities into scalable partnership structures for new markets, partners, and evolving business models
• Provides clear recommendations and communication to executive leadership on partnership economics, structural tradeoffs, and decision paths
• Owns structural evolution after close, including upsizing, amendments, and true-ups negotiations driven by performance or changing business conditions
• Establishes the commercial guardrails that enable execution teams to implement partnerships while preserving the intended economics and risk posture

Key Skills & Experience
• Expertise in LLCA structuring, including ownership structures, waterfalls, and governance provisions across complex partnerships
• Experience executing complex deal structures across Next Era stakeholders, especially finance/PAR, tax, legal, PV, risk, and compliance teams
• Advanced financial modeling capabilities, including building and maintaining partnership-level economic models, sensitivities, and scenario analysis used for executive decision-making
• Experience translating market opportunities (e.g., Texas) into scalable commercial structures and partnership models
• Strong negotiation leadership specifically for economic and structural terms (pricing frameworks, value allocation, partner economics)
• Ability to integrate cross-functional inputs (pricing, supply, finance, technical, VPP capabilities) into a cohesive deal structure
• Experience structuring and incorporating new value streams (e.g., VPP, grid services) into commercial agreements and economic models
• Strong understanding of how operational constraints and product capabilities impact economics, with ability to incorporate inputs from finance, tax, legal, and other key stakeholders
• Prior experience in structuring deals in the residential solar space, aware of market dynamics, and able to structure partnerships within the residential market
• Track record of driving structural evolution of deals over time (true-ups, upsizing, amendments) based on performance and realized economics
• Ability to synthesize complex tradeoffs and provide clear executive-level recommendations on deal economics and structure.

Job Overview

Employees in this role are responsible for leading and coordinating key functions of a project such as financial feasibility analysis, engineering/design, project legal review and financial negotiations. The position plays a key role in building strategic relationships and executing major contracts necessary to support the Company's generating business growth initiatives. This role reviews and oversees the development of key project agreements. This role is responsible for all aspects of the business deal and will be involved in the closure of multiple projects.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Translates company financial, commercial, risk management, technical and operating goals into effective contracting strategies and objectives
  • Develops and maintains effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external strategic partners
  • Assembles and leads internal cross functional, multi-disciplined teams through the solicitation and negotiation processes
  • Provides overall leadership and drive key decisions during negotiations
  • Delivers on contracting objectives and proforma requirements
  • Delivers contracts that position the internal project execution team for maximum success
  • Manages the contracting budget and schedule for assigned projects
  • Provides periodic updates to and interact with senior management
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned


Required Qualifications

  • High School Grad/GED
  • Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
  • Experience: 10+ years


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's - Business Administration
  • Master's - Business Administration


NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Business Development
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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About NextEra Energy

A growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc., NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) acquires, manages, and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. They own interests in wind and solar projects in North America, as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas. Renewable energy projects are fully contracted, use technology, and are located in regions that are favorable for generating energy from the wind and sun. The seven natural gas pipelines in the portfolio are all strategically located, serving power producers and municipalities in South Texas, processing plants and producers in the Eagle Ford Shale, and commercial and industrial customers in the Houston area. The NET Mexico Pipeline, the largest pipeline in the portfolio, provides a critical source of natural gas transportation for low-cost, U.S.-sourced shale gas to Mexico.

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Learn more about NextEra Energy
Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$51 million
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$917 million
NASDAQ

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