Strategic Growth Lead, Aerospace & Defense Electronics

3m; Maplewood (MN); On-site; USD 188,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

3M is seeking a Manager of Business Development in Electronics to translate customer needs, market trends, and opportunities into growth, innovation, and commercialization priorities for aerospace electronics. The role connects voice-of-customer insights with 3M capabilities across labs, product and platform teams, sales, and marketing.

You will identify high-value opportunities, support business case development, and help drive go-to-market execution for priority applications such as avionics,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a technical or business field (as listed).
• 7+ years in business development, segment or product marketing, product management, technical sales, strategic marketing or commercial strategy in relevant environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of aerospace and defense electronics market needs, customer challenges, trends, and growth opportunities.
• Gather and synthesize voice-of-customer insights to inform portfolio decisions, innovation priorities and commercialization plans.
• Identify and frame new applications, cross-selling opportunities, technology gaps and customer-backed growth opportunities.
• Support development and evaluation of business cases for relevant products, technologies, strategic customer opportunities and external collaborations.
• Partner with application engineering to create product application heat maps for lead customers, priority accounts and growth areas.
• Connect customer needs with 3M capabilities across Corporate Labs, product teams, platform teams, application engineering, sales, marketing and partner divisions.
• Support go-to-market strategy, launch readiness, customer demos, trade shows and customer-facing portfolio representation.
• Share market insights, customer needs, value propositions, product updates and competitive positioning with sales, marketing and commercial teams.
• Represent aerospace electronics priorities in portfolio reviews, innovation workshops and collaboration initiatives.
• Track and measure opportunity pipeline progress, collaboration priorities and commercialization milestones.

Skills

Market insights

Voice-of-customer synthesis

Strategic market development

Cross-functional collaboration

Business case development

Portfolio and platform strategy

Go-to-market planning

NPI and stage-gate

Customer application mapping

Value proposition development

Competitive & market trend analysis

Executive storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, Materials Science, Electronics, Aerospace Engineering, or a science field

Job description

3M is seeking a Manager of Business Development in Electronics to translate customer needs, market trends, and opportunities into growth, innovation, and commercialization priorities for aerospace electronics. The role connects voice-of-customer insights with 3M capabilities across labs, product and platform teams, sales, and marketing.

You will identify high-value opportunities, support business case development, and help drive go-to-market execution for priority applications such as avionics,