Strategy and M&A Senior Manager, CHVAC Americas

About Carrier

Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

About the Role
As Strategy and M&A Senior Manager for CHVAC Americas — Software & Controls Solutions (SCS) — you'll help shape the strategic growth agenda for one of Carrier's most important commercial HVAC platforms. Sitting within Climate Solutions Americas Strategy, M&A and Integration, you'll partner with business leaders across SCS and adjacent growth areas to identify where Carrier should invest, acquire, partner, and transform to win.

This is a high-visibility role for a strategic operator and deal leader who can move seamlessly from market-backed strategy to valuation, diligence, executive communication, and post-close value realization. You'll build an inorganic growth pipeline, develop business cases, support acquisition/partnership execution, and translate long-range CHVAC priorities into actionable initiatives. Ideal candidates combine strong financial/analytical capability with practical understanding of industrial markets, controls platforms, field service models, and channel-led go-to-market execution.

This position follows a hybrid schedule, with 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning and inorganic growth initiatives across SCS, translating priorities into market maps, investment themes, acquisition theses, and execution roadmaps
• Identify, screen, and qualify M&A targets and strategic partners in building automation/controls and adjacent industrial technologies
• Develop investment rationales, business cases, valuation models, synergy cases, and risk assessments for leadership decision-making
• Lead/support end-to-end M&A workstreams — target outreach, NDAs, financial analysis, IOI/LOI prep, diligence coordination, management presentations, and closing — alongside Corp Dev, Finance, Legal, Tax, HR, and IT
• Connect M&A activity to strategic priorities: aftermarket expansion, controls growth, integrated equipment + controls + service solutions, data center growth, and go-to-market transformation
• Synthesize market intelligence, competitive dynamics, and technology trends into clear strategic recommendations
• Support post-close value realization: deal theses, synergy tracking, Day 1 priorities, and integration hand-offs
• Build relationships with bankers, brokers, owners, and partners to expand Carrier's deal pipeline
• Prepare executive communications, investment committee materials, and board-ready presentations
• Guide analysts and cross-functional teams through research, valuation, diligence, and integration planning

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, and/or Business
• 8 + years in corporate strategy, M&A, corporate development, investment banking, private equity, management consulting, business development, and/or strategic planning, with experience supporting transactions from thesis through execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• Experience in industrial manufacturing and/or industrial controls (equipment, automation, building technologies, field service, industrial distribution, engineered products)
• Strong financial modeling and valuation skills: DCF, comparable company analysis, precedent transactions, synergy modeling, scenario analysis
• Ability to assess strategic fit, competitive position, operating model, channel structure, margins, growth drivers, and integration complexity
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Excellent executive communication skills — able to convert complex analysis into crisp, decision-ready materials
• Strong project management discipline and ability to manage multiple priorities under time pressure
• Ability to travel for target meetings, site visits, diligence, and integration planning
• Direct experience in commercial HVAC