Responsibilities

• Leading VOC/VOM efforts to identify opportunities based on customer insights to drive growth through enhanced positioning, new product introduction, and marketing programs.
• Improve Area-based product lifecycle management and driving and executing portfolio strategies and tactics across the pyramid, based on understanding key segments and applications across both product and customer life cycles.
• Lead new product introductions within USAC by working with global portfolio, activation marketing, segment marketing, sales, and application engineering to achieve NPI sales targets.
• Develop and implement pricing and positioning strategies and tactics in line with business goals. Ensure strategies and tactics are grounded in customer insights and help deliver greater total value articulation.
• Provide significant contribution to marketing planning and execution. Utilize customer, channel, and market expertise to develop and execute tactics to achieve sales targets.
• Evaluate and monitor the success of the portfolio on a monthly basis and help drive improved insight into action on the critical action pillars and/or revised actions.
• Responsible for special pricing management and requests for product line.
• Prioritize and process area-based SKU set-up/line extension requests.
• Collaborate with the marketing center, activation marketing, segment marketing, global portfolio marketing, application engineering, customer service, and the ASD sales team in advancing the portfolio and ASD's business.
• Display strong presentation skills and creativity in training and motivating both internal 3M and external partners in both live and virtual formats.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years of combined experience marketing or sales in a private, public, government or military environment.
• MBA or equivalent.
• Five (5) or more years of marketing and/or sales experience in abrasives and/or industrial markets.
• 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 25% travel in US and Canada
• Relocation Assistance: Not authorized
• Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Preferred

• MBA or equivalent.
• Five (5) or more years of marketing and/or sales experience in abrasives and/or industrial markets.

Benefits

• In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.).