Strategy and M&A Senior Manager, CHVAC Americas

Strategy And M&A Senior Manager For CHVAC Americas — Software & Controls Solutions

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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.

• 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 work streams — 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

• 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

• 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…