Business Manager- Landowner & Community Engagement

Requisition ID: 94580

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Position Specific Description

As a Business Manager on the Business Management Portfolio Services team, you will own and evolve landowner and community engagement activities across a portfolio of operating while also playing a key role in advancing land focused initiatives and technology-enabled processes.

This role blends traditional landowner management with process optimization, financial acumen, data visibility, and cross-functional coordination, ensuring our team operates more efficiently, consistently, and at scale.

You will serve as a bridge between field execution and strategic transformation, helping implement new tools, improve workflows, and elevate how we manage land-related activities across the portfolio.

In this role, you will:

• Lead coordination/ execution and execution of third-party crossing requests, easements, encroachments, and road use agreements
• Lead coordination/ execution land lease extension efforts across the portfolio, ensuring alignment between Business Management, Legal, and Development.
• Respond to landowner issues and coordinate with internal teams to resolve concerns in a timely, respectful manner
• Plan and execute landowner engagement events (e.g., dinners, site visits) in coordination with internal teams
• Handle land-related ad hoc requests and drive cross-functional resolution
• Support land focused initiatives focused on standardizing and improving land-related processes
• Partner with internal teams to design, document, and implement standardized processes (e.g., dinners, landowner issue tracking, lease management)
• Drive adoption of new tools, templates, and ways of working across the team
• Help build and maintain data visibility across landowner activities (issues, agreements, engagement touchpoints)
• Translate business needs into clear requirements for tools and reporting

What you bring:

• Strong understanding of land agreements, easements, and stakeholder management
• Experience working with landowners and external stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to improve processes, not just execute them
• Comfort working with data, financial analysis, systems, or technology tools
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and operate independently
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across functions

Employees in this position support the overall P and L management of one or more NextEra generating assets or upstream/midstream assets that have achieved commercial operation. This role supports strategic decision-making with respect to such assets, including hedging, operations and maintenance. This role identifies opportunities and analyzes the impact on company financials to maximize P and L profitability.

• Manages and improves the generating asset or upstream/midstream assets P and L including optimization of asset interaction with energy markets
• Completes budgets and monthly forecasts, financial analyses, ad hoc reports, and modeling
• Ensures compliance with power purchase agreements, land leases, financings and regulatory requirements
• Works with teams throughout the company in a coordinator capacity
• Maintains close working relationships with customers and stakeholders
• Monitors project operations
• Conducts analysis on issues impacting operations and proactively identifies opportunities for improvement
• Assists with value-added projects such as supporting regional leadership in the development of strategic plans, mergers and acquisitions, project development, asset optimization, restructurings and building relationships with off-takers, landowners, and state and local regulators
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

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Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Finance, Accounting & Business Analytics
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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