Job Description

Category Specialist

Collaborate with innovative 3Mers around the world.

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it's equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The impact you'll make in this role:

As a Category Specialist, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing end-to-end sub-category leadership, serving as the global leader for the Paper Backings sub-category
• Developing and implementing the global sub-category strategy to ensure business continuity, resilience, and value creation
• Driving year over year profitability & free cash flow improvements through moderate to complex supplier negotiation and development
• Influencing internal stakeholders to prioritize activities that drive cost reduction, working capital improvement, risk reduction, efficiency, and competitiveness for the global category
• Establishing and managing strategic supplier relationships that provide access to leading technologies and capabilities
• Negotiating and establishing moderate to complex vendor contract agreements, holding suppliers accountable to competitive prices, high quality and best in class service
• Researching and analyzing short and long-term market and industry trends
• Creating solutions for moderate multi-faceted problems, which requires ingenuity, creativity, innovation, and strong analytical skills
• Business reviews with key stakeholders to support collaboration, service, capacity, market insights, savings pipeline, and performance improvement
• Managing change through effective project goal definition, scenario planning, data analysis, action tracking, and stakeholder alignment
• Participate, lead or recommend continuous improvement projects at suppliers, businesses or client sites
• Ensuring the integration of sustainability and corporate responsibility into category strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory and organizational policies.

Your skills and expertise:

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Two (2) years of combined experience in Sourcing, Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain, Engineering and/or Manufacturing in a private, public, government or military environment
• One (1) year managing suppliers and internal stakeholders in a procurement or sourcing scenario in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Paper Science Degree
• Experience working with paper or other raw material roll-goods (e.g., films, nonwovens, etc.)
• Proven category leadership
• Demonstrated skills in category strategy development and managing stakeholders
• Strong negotiation skills and attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong systems (ERP, Excel, Power BI) expertise and critical thinking skills
• Initiative, self-starter with a positive & proactive approach
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Appropriately engages stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Experience successfully collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on complex projects.
• Strong business, contract language and financial acumen with an understanding of end-to-end supply chain operations

Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.

Travel: May include up to 15% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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