Growth Strategy Director, Consumer Business

3M; Minnesota; On-site; USD 287,000 - 351,000; Full time

Job summary

3M is seeking a Director, Strategy & Business Development - Consumer Business in Maplewood, MN. The role leads multi-year strategic planning, transformation initiatives, and business development screening, reporting to the VP, Strategy & Business Development.

Expect executive-level collaboration with cross-functional teams. The position emphasizes end-to-end project leadership, P&L insights, and a pathway to broader leadership roles within 3M’s Consumer Business Group.

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years of experience in consumer-packaged goods strategy, transformation, commercial, or marketing roles and/or in strategy consulting serving consumer and retail clients.
• Five (5) years of experience leading strategy or transformation projects end to end, from problem framing and hypothesis-driven analysis through executive alignment and implementation.
• Five (5) years of experience building P&L, business-case, and scenario models and working with consumer, retail, pricing, promotion, or syndicated data.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start).
• MBA or equivalent graduate degree from an accredited institution.

Responsibilities

• Shaping CBG’s multi-year strategic roadmap - building the three-year plan and the category, channel, and area strategies beneath it.
• Leading two to three high-priority transformation initiatives end to end - from problem framing and hypothesis-driven analysis through execution, adoption, and measured P&L impact across operating-model redesign, portfolio simplification, revenue growth management, ecommerce and retail media, and international go-to-market.
• Evaluating and building business development opportunities - screening acquisitions, licensing, divestitures, and strategic partnerships against CBG’s strategic filters, and building the business cases that inform investment decisions.
• Running CBG’s strategic planning and performance cadence - annual operating planning, KPI definition, initiative tracking, and long-range planning with Finance - so it works as a decision engine rather than a reporting exercise.
• Preparing executive-ready materials and decision support for the CBG leadership team, Group President, CEO, and Board forums, while leading cross-functional project teams and external advisors to deliver.

Skills

Strategy development

Transformation leadership

P&L modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

Job description

3M is seeking a Director, Strategy & Business Development - Consumer Business in Maplewood, MN. The role leads multi-year strategic planning, transformation initiatives, and business development screening, reporting to the VP, Strategy & Business Development.

Expect executive-level collaboration with cross-functional teams. The position emphasizes end-to-end project leadership, P&L insights, and a pathway to broader leadership roles within 3M’s Consumer Business Group.