Growth & Strategy Director, Consumer Goods

National Black MBA Association; Maplewood, Northern (MN, KY); On-site; USD 287,000 - 351,000; Full time

Job summary

3M is seeking a Director, Strategy & Business Development to lead priority initiatives within its Consumer Business Group. You will own the three-year roadmap, drive end-to-end transformation programs, and shape business development opportunities while collaborating with top executives across finance, marketing, and supply chain.

The role demands executive-level communication, cross-functional leadership, and a track record of delivering P&L impact in a consumer-packaged goods context, with

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, in a private, public, government or military environment
• 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
• Five (5) years of experience influencing and partnering across a matrixed organization, including Finance, Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain, R&D, or HR

Responsibilities

• Shaping CBG’s multi-year strategic roadmap — building the three-year plan and the category, channel, and area strategies beneath it (where to play, how to win, what to stop), with explicit revenue, margin, and investment implications.
• 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 leadership

Transformation programs

P&L modeling

Executive communication

Cross-functional partnership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

3M is seeking a Director, Strategy & Business Development to lead priority initiatives within its Consumer Business Group. You will own the three-year roadmap, drive end-to-end transformation programs, and shape business development opportunities while collaborating with top executives across finance, marketing, and supply chain.

The role demands executive-level communication, cross-functional leadership, and a track record of delivering P&L impact in a consumer-packaged goods context, with