Director Commodity Analytics & Pricing

NextEra Energy Resources; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Job summary

NextEra Energy Resources is seeking a Director of Commodity Analytics & Pricing to shape power and natural gas market strategy, pricing, and procurement. You will lead analytics, hedging, and supplier relations to drive competitive commercial outcomes across the energy markets.

The role partners with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to translate market intelligence into actionable recommendations, advance BuyScore, and oversee complex commercial transactions, including large-load

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Translate market intelligence and risk insights into actionable recommendations.
• Lead pricing and analytics for strategic pursuits and complex enterprise opportunities.
• Oversee hedging, trading, and wholesale energy markets, including non-standard transactions.
• Manage supplier relationships and negotiate complex pricing structures and contracts.
• Provide strategic oversight for energy markets across PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, MISO, ERCOT.
• Develop and advance pricing tools, forecasting, and data analytics capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional teams through bidding, procurement, and client engagements.
• Present market updates and contract strategy to executive leadership.
• Identify improvements to workflows, analytics tools, and procurement processes.
• Support large-load customer opportunities, data centers, sleeved transactions, and renewables.

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, data science

Advanced degree or energy-market certifications (plus)

Job description

Requisition ID: 97313

At Gexa Energy, a NextEra Energy Resources company, we provide reliable low-cost energy solutions. Focused on customer satisfaction, we offer innovative electricity plans tailored to the diverse needs of Texas homes and businesses. If you're passionate about making a difference in the energy industry and delivering exceptional customer experiences, join our team today.

Position Specific Description

The Director, Commodity Analytics & Pricing is a senior commercial leader responsible for shaping and leading the company’s power and natural gas market strategy, pricing, procurement, and advanced analytics capabilities. This role serves as the senior point of contact for key supplier relationships and provides strategic leadership across competitive procurement, contract negotiations, hedging and trading strategy, wholesale energy markets, utility optimization, risk management, forecasting, reporting, and complex client analytics.

The Director works closely with executive leadership, Sales, Operations, suppliers, advisors, and enterprise customers to translate fundamental and technical market intelligence into actionable commercial recommendations. This role leads and develops managers, analysts, and data scientists, advances our proprietary procurement tool BuyScore, provides oversight on high-value and complex opportunities, and serves as an escalation point for supplier, pricing, contract, market, and client-related matters. The role will also support sophisticated customer strategies, including data center and other large-load opportunities, behind-the-meter generation, sleeved transactions, zero-emissions structures, and renewable products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pricing and analytics support for strategic pursuits, renewals, and complex enterprise opportunities, helping Sales develop differentiated value propositions, commercially sound recommendations, and effective client strategies.
• Translate market intelligence, analytics, and risk insights into clear, actionable recommendations for Sales, advisors, enterprise clients, and executive leadership.
• Provide strategic oversight for hedging, trading, wholesale energy markets, complex product structures, and non-standard commercial transactions. Provide deep expertise in PJM, including subaccounts and complex retail structures, while maintaining broad knowledge of ISO-NE, NYISO, MISO, ERCOT, and other applicable markets.
• Lead the development of sophisticated customer strategies, including sleeved transactions, zero-emissions structures, renewable products, behind-the-meter generation, data center opportunities, and other large-load solutions.
• Advance BuyScore, data science, forecasting, analytics, and other technology-enabled decision tools, improving the use of data in pricing, procurement, and client recommendations.
• Own strategic supplier relationships and engage senior supplier leadership, pricing teams, trading desks, and account-management organizations to improve competitiveness, expand capabilities, resolve issues, and create new commercial opportunities. Support negotiation of complex pricing structures, commercial terms, and supplier agreements in partnership with Sales and executive leadership.
• Oversee competitive RFPs, supplier selection, bid evaluation, margin considerations, pricing strategy, and procurement recommendations for both power and natural gas.
• Act as a senior resource for enterprise accounts, participating in strategic client meetings, procurement discussions, market updates, and executive-level presentations.
• Oversee rate and tariff optimization, deregulated market analysis, budgeting and forecasting, capacity strategy, hedge reporting, and utility cost management initiatives. Review complex or non-standard supplier agreements and provide guidance on commercial risk, contract language, and negotiation strategy.
• Establish standards, governance, and performance expectations for pricing analysis, bid comparisons, market reporting, forecasting, contract review, client deliverables, and sales support.
• Identify and implement improvements to workflows, decision rights, supplier engagement, analytics tools, reporting, and procurement processes to increase speed, scalability, accountability, and commercial impact.
• Partner with executive leadership on market positioning, product development, supplier strategy, organizational priorities, and expansion of the company’s capabilities and services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with sleeved transactions, zero-emissions structures, renewable products, subaccounts, behind-the-meter generation, and large-load or data center strategies.
• Experience advancing market intelligence platforms, forecasting models, data science capabilities, or technology-enabled decision tools.
• Established relationships with suppliers, wholesale market participants, and energy-industry stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, data science, or a related field; an advanced degree or relevant energy-market certifications are a plus.

Location & Travel

Houston or Dallas is preferred, with an in-office presence. The company will consider strong candidates nationally. Regular travel and active engagement with leadership, Sales, advisors, clients, and suppliers are expected.

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.

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Business Development

Organization: Gexa Energy, LP

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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