Associate, Corporate Strategy

About the Role

The Associate, Corporate Strategy is a key member of the Corporate Strategy team, providing analytical and program management support for strategy projects. This role will lead highly visible and prioritized strategic initiatives to support executive decision-making on consequential topics for Trane Technologies. Based in Davidson Headquarters, this role reports directly to the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and will have an Enterprise-wide scope of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Support all elements of the company-wide strategic planning process, including the analysis of macro and micro economic factors, strategic benchmarking, current/future portfolio review, and competitive analyses.
• Support Trane Technologies strategic growth initiatives execution, working with business units to help them define and refine business strategy.
• Conduct on-going market assessments to identify, evaluate and prioritize specific strategic alternatives and initiatives to drive growth and shareholder returns.
• Build analytical models and perform market and financial analyses to evaluate opportunities.
• Drive externally focused orientation, particularly with regard to awareness and insightful analysis of global economic, market & transaction trends, and identification & exploration of adjacencies to our core businesses to identify new opportunities and specific M&A prospects.
• Support other global initiatives and projects assigned by Executive Leadership Team.
• Limited overnight travel will be required, less than 20%.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering or business administration.
• Strong ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders across functions, collaborating effectively to deliver business-focused solutions and shared outcomes.
• Highly accountable with a strong sense of ownership, consistently delivering high-quality work and driving results with limited direction.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information, prioritize competing demands, and execute against commitments aligned with broader business and strategic objectives.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex business environments, connect disparate inputs, and drive workstreams to completion.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, rapidly learning new business contexts, and applying structured problem-solving and analytical approaches to identify innovative opportunities and solutions.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including experience leveraging data, market insights, and business performance metrics to develop recommendations and support business decision-making.

Typical Projects Include

• Market sizing
• Competitive analysis
• Portfolio optimization
• M&A strategy
• Growth and/or operational improvement projects
• Functional and transformation projects

Compensation

• Annual Base Salary Range: $75,700.00 - $156,200.00
• Compensation Type: Salary
• Incentive Eligible: Yes
• Sales Commission Eligible: No