Global Procurement Category Specialist Specialty Chemicals jobs at 3m

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Global Procurement 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:

• Procurement Sub-Category Leadership: Initiates and designs plans to implement Global procurement solutions that will achieve measurable business results. Assembles and leads multiple project teams to implement sourcing solutions. Establishes close working relationships with business unit management and suppliers on sourcing strategies and activities. Researches and understands the short and long-term market outlook for assigned materials and feedstocks. Performs complex contract negotiations. Proactively communicates project direction and status with key regional and/or business unit management. Recommends and influences management decisions in the area of sourcing solutions. Negotiates to resolve issues, implement strategies and ensure client satisfaction
• Procurement Analysis and Design: Determines and implements solutions for multi-faceted situations regarding the distribution of business, negotiation or category strategy, supplier management, and external sources of supply. Develops cause and effect analysis and documentation. Develops and recommends tactical and strategic solutions to business unit clients and management
• Procurement Process Improvement : Identifies and implements opportunities for process improvements that improve service, speed or cost, through analysis of sourcing information and metrics. Minimizes the total product and process cost by leading cost-reduction efforts and facilitating the implementation of innovative sourcing best practices. Recognizes impacts on related processes and ensures communication of issues and proposed solutions to appropriate business and process owners.

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 in Business, Supply Chain or Engineering (completed and verified prior to start)
• Three (3) years of combined in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or chemical & polymer engineering experience in a private, public, government, or military environment

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

• Supplier relationship management
• Negotiation experience
• Strong writing skills
• Strong collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Project management training, experience and aptitude

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an

• Meeting or exceeding designated sales targets in your assigned sales territory
• Driving improved customer product design, assembly and manufacturing processes which generate value for both our customers and 3M
• Consistently maintaining an active and sufficient opportunity pipeline
• Prospecting for new growth opportunities with both new and current 3M customers.
• Sharing key market insights with Industrial Adhesives & Tapes Division peers, portfolio managers, marketing, application engineers and leadership
• Collaborating with 3M’s Strategic Partnership Team to drive revenue growth through priority end-user customers
• Engaging local 3M distribution partners to execute growth initiatives, strategies, and programs

This position requires driving a company vehicle, which will require pre-employment and ongoing review of motor vehicle history for candidates who are offered and hired for this position

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

• Bachelor’s degree (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Two (2) years of exceptional sales experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Current, valid driver’s license

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

• Experience articulating value propositions and system-selling.
• Understanding of (or sincere desire to learn) manufacturing processes.
• Relentless prospecting and business development.
• Product demonstration skills and competence.
• Strong track record of collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.

Remote Based - responsible for Northern California, East Bay Area and Reno, NV

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Job Title

Global Labor Relations Leader

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As the Global Labor Relations Leader in 3M Human Resources, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Solidifying and maturing 3M’s global labor relations strategy

• Leading a network of global labor-relations experts to share practices and identify key issues and concerns

• Coordinating assessment of risk of labor- and employee-relations disruption

• Providing governance of stakeholder communications regarding global labor relations issues

• Developing and adapting global labor-relations tools, playbooks, and training

• Leading deep-dives on labor-adjacent processes for optimization opportunities

• Representing HR on cross-functional teams aligned to enterprise labor priorities

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)

• Ten (10) years of combined experience in human resources, labor relations, and/or labor & employment law, in a private, public, government, or military environment

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

• Master’s degree in human resource management, or labor relations, or a law degree

• Global labor relations or labor/employment law experience

• Proven ability to lead by influence

• Strong collaboration skills

• Excellent oral and written English communication skills

• Process orientation

• Bias toward execution

• Adeptness in navigating ambiguity

• Demonstrated integrity and compliance mindset

Work location:

• 3M Global Headquarters in St. Paul, MN (4 days in office)

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Product Development Specialist - Aerospace

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Professional Services-IT Procurement Manager

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Professional Services-IT Procurement Manager- 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:

• Leading teams to manage external suppliers to deliver improved benefits to 3M
• Implementing cost reduction, cash improvement opportunities, supply risk management, and sourcing initiatives and tools
• Driving/ensuring the integration of Procurement's business processes for assigned commodities or business into the client’s business requirements, including acquisitions/ divestitures
• Providing sourcing advice and consulting with leadership team to set strategic direction for assigned categories
• Act as the Procurement lead for Category

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)
• Seven (7) years of IT contract negotiation experience with strong knowledge of IT Professional Services in a private, public, government, and military
• Five (5) years of experience managing contracts and RFPs, including drafting and executing MSAs, SOWs, schedules, and POs.
• Five (5) years of proficiency in Microsoft Office and SAP, with proven success leading cross-functional teams and complex initiatives.

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

• Master's degree in Business or Technology discipline
• Experience managing complex Indirect or Direct categories
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for IT professional services, including consulting, integration, and support services.
• Manage service provider relationships and performance, ensuring compliance with SLAs and KPIs.
• 10 years of IT Hardware, Software, or IT Services experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Skills include ability to negotiate highly complex technology contracts, ability to communicate, persuade and counsel on an expert level

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Job Description:

Senior Global Quality Engineer

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Global Quality Engineer, 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:

• Partnering with/providing oversight to global manufacturing sites to drive Operational Quality Excellence: Working to identify, address sources of risk and variability, standardize work, and error proof operations.
• Leading and providing support to global teams on the resolution of quality issues including product recalls, complaints, nonconforming materials, while monitoring and addressing root causes.
• Quality support for New Product Introductions and change management process for source of supply and/or manufacturing operational changes to ensure robust product quality, test method development/implementation, qualifications, design reviews, and risk mitigation.
• Driving Supplier Quality improvement through the execution of governance plans based on risk.
• Championing a culture of continuous improvement to drive customer satisfaction and achieve business and plant objectives.

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)
• Five (5) years combined quality engineering and/or manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Two (2) years of experience working in a regulated environment along with ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems experience.

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

• Master’s degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited institution
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a quality or engineering role supporting hard goods and/or assembly operations
• Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience with championing and/or deploying quality continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. LSS, QFD, PPU, Qualifications)

Work location:

• Red Wing Minnesota

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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Write modular, testable code to implement real time data management methods, statistics, or architectural mechanisms.

• Work from whiteboards, specs, and conversations—not product docs.
• Extend an evolving codebase that supports structured learning experiments.
• Help organize internal data structure for system components (e.g., experimental runners, memory modules, parameter schedulers).
• Write structured logging and diagnostic tools to support hypothesis-driven debugging.
• Collaborate with other researchers who define the “what”; your job is to create the “how.”

Your Skills and Expertise:

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

• Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university.
• Five (5) years of experience in fundamental data science research and implementation in academic, private, public, government, or military environment.

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

• Strong fluency in coding, including object-oriented programming and functional idioms.
• Experience working in scientific, data-intensive, or ML-related environments.
• Comprehensive understanding of deep learning internals (embeddings, attention, optimization) and the ability to think critically about fundamental data structures and management.
• Experience implementing statistics in a research environment including detection theory, frequentist and Bayesian methods, and estimation theory.
• Working knowledge of neuro-symbolic AI systems.
• Comfortable building and modifying systems from scratch.
• Interest in systems that involve simulation, learning, or recursive dynamics.
• Familiarity with fundamental concepts of data parallelization and real time management in neural networks.
• Experience with visualization methods in structured probabilistic models.
• Able to work on a team where the problem is evolving, and code is shared.
• Curious, fast learner, solid communicator.
• Strong fluency in Python.

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

Please access the linked document by clicking select the country where you are applying for employment, and review. Before submitting your application, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms.