Director – Market Risk Management
NextEra Energy
Director – Market Risk Management
NextEra Energy
Runs a Florida utility and builds wind and solar farms
Requisition ID: 98690
NextEra Energy Marketing is one of the nation’s leading electricity and natural gas marketers, and a key player in the energy markets in the United States and Canada. As a part of NextEra Energy Resources, we specialize in innovative energy strategies that maximize market value for our customers and stakeholders. Our team is skilled in market analysis, trading, risk management and delivering tailored customer solutions across North America. If you are a strategic thinker eager to make a significant impact in the fast-paced energy industry, join our team today.
Position Specific Description
We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Director, Risk Transformation & Pricing to lead the continued development of NextEra Energy’s enterprise risk capabilities while overseeing the pricing function supporting our trading, commercial, and risk management activities. This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced energy professional who combines deep knowledge of commodity markets, valuation, pricing, and trading systems with a demonstrated ability to drive complex transformation initiatives.
The Risk Transformation & Pricing team sits at the intersection of markets, risk, technology, data, and valuation. The team is responsible for the development, governance, and delivery of commodity prices and forward curves used across trading and risk platforms, including key interfaces into ETRM and other enterprise systems. Responsibilities include market data and curve construction, aggregation and governance of trader-assessed curves, valuation support and validation, pricing controls, and ensuring that market data used for valuation and risk measurement is accurate, transparent, and appropriately governed.
The Director will also play a leadership role in the broader transformation of NextEra Energy’s market risk infrastructure and operating model. This includes partnering across Risk, Commercial, Technology, Finance, and other stakeholders to modernize processes and systems, strengthen controls, improve data quality and automation, and develop scalable capabilities that support an increasingly complex portfolio of energy and commodity activities.
The successful candidate will bring significant experience in energy and commodity markets, with a strong understanding of forward curves, market data, valuation methodologies, derivatives, ETRM platforms, and risk and pricing controls. Equally important, this individual will be a hands-on leader who can work through complex pricing and valuation issues while establishing the governance, processes, technology, and analytics required for a first-class pricing and risk infrastructure.
The role has broad enterprise reach, supporting NextEra Energy Marketing (NEM), NextEra Energy Services (NES), Florida Power & Light / Energy Marketing & Trading (FPL/EMT), Treasury, and Natural Gas Infrastructure, and requires the ability to work effectively across multiple businesses, commodities, systems, and stakeholder groups.
The ability to translate complex market, pricing, valuation, and technology issues into clear business decisions will be critical. The Director will be expected to challenge existing processes constructively, establish consistent standards where appropriate, and help build scalable solutions that improve the accuracy, transparency, and efficiency of pricing, valuation, and risk management across the organization.
This role reports to the Executive Director, Head of Market Risk and Analytics and is based at NextEra Energy’s offices in Houston, TX.
The Director Market Risk commands strategic development and supervises comprehensive risk management initiatives across the organization. Tasked with high-level decision-making, this role leverages deep market insights to influence corporate strategy and maintain risk mitigations. This leadership role requires exceptional analytical capabilities and strategic vision to guide a large-scale risk team.
• Direct the formulation and execution of market risk strategies
• Oversee complex risk management processes and optimize team performance
• Ensure accurate implementation of risk models and methodologies
• Lead initiatives for compliance and regulatory adherence in all risk practices
• Cultivate relationships with stakeholders to support strategic objectives
• Innovate on risk management automation and system improvements
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Finance or Business Administration
• Minimum 10+ years of experience
• OR 9+ years of experience with trading experience
• Minimum 2-4+ years of leadership experience
• None
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Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Energy Trading
Organization: NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
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Runs a Florida utility and builds wind and solar farms
NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light, the regulated utility that supplies electricity to much of Florida, and NextEra Energy Resources, which builds and runs wind, solar, battery storage and nuclear plants across the United States. The company calls itself the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. FPL earns returns set by Florida regulators on the power plants and grid lines it builds, while Energy Resources sells power to utilities, technology companies and other large buyers under long-term contracts. NextEra Energy was formed in 1984 as the holding company for Florida Power & Light, which dates to 1925, and is based in Juno Beach, Florida.
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