Sr. Manager, Strategy & Business Development

Company Overview

Crane Company’s PFT segment is a global provider of highly engineered products including valves, pumps, lined pipe, instrumentation, and controls. PFT serves the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, water and wastewater, and general industrial markets. With proprietary technology and differentiated designs, we are solving our customers’ toughest challenges in mission-critical applications that require high-reliability in many of the harshest and most hazardous environments. PFT generates more than :$1 billion dollars in revenue servicing global customers and is supported by more than 25 manufacturing locations around the world.

Position Summary

The Sr. Manager - Strategy & Business Development plays a critical role in the execution of PFT’s growth agenda. This position is an excellent platform for a successful candidate to position themselves for accelerated career progression within Crane.

• The role reports directly to the Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Process Flow Technologies and will have visibility to a wide range of senior leaders across the company.
• Primary responsibilities will be 1) support end-to-end M&A activities including market assessments, identification and screening of targets, and deal execution and integration, and 2) support Strategy development for select PFT businesses and any newly acquired assets.
  
  
  

Core responsibilities:

M&A

• Identify and conduct proprietary assessments of market adjacencies to determine attractiveness for Crane.
• Identify and screen potential acquisition targets. Develop detailed profiles for acquisition targets and make recommendations for attractive targets to pursue.
• Help build andmanage a funnel of potential acquisition targets. Work with senior leaders to ensure actions needed to advance targets through funnel stages are executed on time. Ensure actions required to cultivate targets are executed by assigned owners.
• Supportdue diligence for targets in live acquisition process, including valuation modelling, financial analysis and business case development.
• As needed, support deal execution and integration activities.
• As needed, support research, analysis, and business case development for any divestitures.
• Support continuous improvement of M&A processes and activities over time.
  
  
  

Strategy Development

• Support creation of strategy and value creation plan for acquired assets. Conduct the research and analysis required. Coordinate input and insights across business teams. Drive creation of output.
• Conduct selective research and analysis to constructively challenge the Business Unit’s “where to play” and “how to win.” Help to ensure BU strategies are built on rigorous assessment of facts and data spanning market analysis, voice of the customer, competitive analysis, and more.
• Support continuous improvement of the strategy development process over time.
  
  
  

Technical Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred. Undergraduate degree in an Engineering or Science discipline preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in strategy consulting / corporate development at post-MBA level, preferably within Industrials Manufacturing or adjacent industry.
• Ideally at least 3 years of experience before MBA in an Industrials or adjacent industry.
• Relevant experience in market assessments, target commercial diligence, or strategy work.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and draw actionable insights. Financial modeling experience is a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools with expert level capabilities in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Preferred: Proficiency in additional data analysis tools including but not limited to Power BI, R, SQL databases.
  
  
  

Personal Qualifications:

• Highly self-motivated and results oriented
• Can easily function in a high demand, performance-driven environment
• High energy level combined with a passion for the business
• Intellectually curious with a demonstrated interest in learning
• An independent thinker and self-starter with the ability to multitask and work on several initiatives at a given time
• Understand how to deliver on short time frames and be committed to meeting deadlines
• Organized and detail oriented
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively build key relationships
• Excellent presentation skills, verbal and written
• Impeccable values of honesty and integrity
• Cultural Fit: The ideal candidate will be energetic, humble in nature, and instinctively collaborative. They will embody the R.T. resolution of honesty and fairness, and possess a passion for philanthropy, sustainability, and equality.
  
  
  

Location: The Woodlands, TX (on-site)

Travel: Up to 10% of time.

Crane Company reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position. The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of accountability and responsibility. These descriptions should not be considered to be all-inclusive listings of work requirements.

Crane Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, or U.S. military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law, in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting.