Associate Director, Strategy

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About this role

Our strategy team is seeking an Associate Director, Strategy that will lead the development and execution of our business strategy focused on portfolio management and inorganic investments while ensuring strategic alignment with our corporate headquarters team. This high visibility role requires excellent communication skills and organizational agility to manage relationships and key stakeholders across multiple levels in the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops a three to a five-year strategic plan that can be easily communicated to small, medium, and large audiences, including both internal and external stakeholders

• Regularly coordinates and aggregates departmental roadmaps to ensure alignment and organizational prioritization of inorganic investments.

• Aligns processes, resources, planning, and department goals with the overall strategy

• Leads organization-wide strategy meetings on an as needed basis

• Provides support and insight into significant organizational changes (e.g., a shift in strategic focus, mergers, and acquisitions, internal business process improvements)

• Defines, tracks, and communicates metrics around new initiatives, compared to previous outcomes

• Lead Carrier Ventures opportunities for AECES BU working with sub-BU management. 

• In conjunction with the market intelligence team, monitors and presents financial trends, competitor behavior, and other emerging trends that could impact the business.

• Provides insights on market activity and presents findings to the leadership team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 7+ years of experience in business strategy, finance, project management or consulting

• 30% travel

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA

• HVAC industry experience

• Proven ability to develop business strategies and drive implementation

• Demonstrated ability to understand and respond to conflicting needs of key stakeholders.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to pull data from multiple sources and synthesize it so that it is easily understood by the target audience

• Passion for servicing customers. Ability to listen to customer needs and quickly solve their problems, go above and beyond to exceed their expectations.

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail while also able to manage multiple priorities.

• Ability to design and conduct systematic research, objective, and critical investigation.

• Proven ability to execute with speed and exhibit a bias for action mindset.

• Ability to think outside the box, innovate, take risks, and implement progressive, sustainable solutions

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