At Trane Technologies and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

The Corporate Development Associate plays an integral role in executing the strategic vision of Trane Technologies through acquisitions, divestitures, and partnerships for the enterprise and strategic business units.

Your primary responsibility is to provide financial analysis and modelling/valuation support to executive decision makers to assess inorganic growth opportunities. You may be involved in every phase of an MA engagement. This location for this position is flexible. It may be based in one of our office locations in Brussels, Dublin, Gothenburg, Oberhausen, Basingstoke, Southampton or Epinal. The position is eligible for hybrid working.

Key Responsibilities

Develop valuation models, materials, and recommendations by conducting comprehensive financial analyses, utilizing appropriate valuation methods, and preparing insightful valuation overview and analysis materials for senior executive audiences

Support all elements of the company-wide corporate development process for acquisitions, partnerships, and divestitures, including target identification, analysis, valuation, due diligence, negotiations, contract management, integration, and planning

Become an expert and thought partner to strategic business unit and enterprise leaders regarding the inorganic path required to achieve strategic growth objectives

Partner with business and enterprise leaders to develop and manage acquisition pipelines, as well as to determine and execute acquisition and disposition strategies

Opportunity Identification Pipeline Development

Partner with business leadership to evaluate MA opportunities ranging from small (revenue $10M+) to large (revenue $1B)

Evaluate inorganic growth strategies including acquisition, alliance, licensing, and partnership opportunities linked to corporate and business unit strategies. Partner with Corporate Strategy team to develop and successfully execute inorganic growth strategies

Evaluate risk factors and key financial criteria for both sectors and individual target companies

Manage strategic acquisition funnels and pipelines at the business unit and enterprise level through strategic analysis and adjacent market work

Present to company leaders on corporate development items, including acquisition pipeline activity, potential dispositions, potential targets, diligence updates, and recommended actions

Identify, evaluate, acquire, and integrate businesses to meet strategic and financial objectives

Evaluate existing assets for potential divestiture

Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform business decisions

Develop communication materials for executive leadership, CFO, CEO, and board of director reviews

Deal Execution

Execute a robust MA process methodology

Build complex valuation models to evaluate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and partnerships

Complete all financial analysis, financial modelling company valuation work on MA transactions

Participate in all areas of due diligence (with both internal and external parties) from start to finish

Support negotiation strategy and tactics to ensure transaction success

Execute the end-to-end process of identifying, evaluating, acquiring and integrating new business entities in close collaboration with business unit and corporate leadership teams

Construct financial and economic models and build spreadsheet models to analyze data

Support deal execution process and synthesize input on opportunities and risks

Evaluate tax, accounting, earnings, and return implications

Execute combination or disposition processes to achieve strategic goals

Support regulatory filings and approvals processes, develop transition services agreements, post-closing adjustments, and internal and external communications

Inform transaction strategies, including deal pricing and structure through the use of primary and secondary data and publicly available information

Support deal negotiations, working with legal partners to draft and negotiate contracts and closing documents

Coordinate work streams of projects with Business Unit and functional personnel

Support cultivation of relationships with targets

Position Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required

Two to five years of post-undergraduate experience required; experience in corporate strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, competitive intelligence, corporate development, or other MA-relevant professional services strongly preferred

Excellent judgment and analytical ability to make recommendations/decisions and to resolve complex problems

Strategic thinking, planning and project management skills

Strong financial acumen (experienced in modeling and detailed financial analysis)

Proficiency in analyzing financial documents, business plans and making judgment calls based on research and due diligence

Ability to assess a company’s market and competitive position and operational and financial characteristics

Demonstrated merger and acquisition experience with a large company / experience with large, complex transactions

Ability to structure and develop quantitative/analytic models to test hypotheses

Experience in deal execution preferred

Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including exceptional presentation skills

Ability to manage multiple complex projects and internal and external stakeholders from different functions, businesses, and backgrounds, while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain relationships at all levels in the organization

Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

Highly motivated and organized with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and requests

Pro-active approach and ability to work independently and oversee projects from start to finish

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.