Strategic Transformation Director — USAC Commercial

3M; Minnesota; On-site; USD 250,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

3M in Minnesota seeks a Director to lead USAC Commercial Transformation. You will own the transformation agenda, drive the operating model adoption, and partner across HR, Finance, and enterprise functions to deliver cross-functional change.

The role focuses on documenting workflows, setting KPIs, and embedding new ways of working across a matrixed organization. On-site role based at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN with travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start).
• Ten (10) years of transformation program management, commercial excellence, operating-model implementation, or change management experience in a consumer, retail, or private/government/military environment.
• Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, Organizational Effectiveness, or a related discipline from an accredited institution.
• Experience leading or facilitating large-scale commercial transformation, including workflow documentation, governance cadence, adoption tracking, and implementation of new ways of working.
• Experience enabling measurable business or P&L outcomes through structural change, process redesign, productivity improvement, or organizational transformation.
• Experience in a consumer packaged goods company or consumer-facing commercial organization, particularly with sell-through, margin, pricing, promotional effectiveness, or POS-oriented operating models.
• Experience with Revenue Growth Management, price-pack architecture, trade-spend optimization, mix management, customer planning, or commercial performance management.
• Experience building, leading, or operating a transformation PMO, business change office, or enterprise transformation governance model.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder influence, change management, decision facilitation, and critical-path management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation agenda and operating model adoption for the USAC commercial organization, including roadmap ownership, critical path management, decision governance, and cross-functional workstream integration.
• Document current- and future-state workflows to support process redesign and enable adoption of new KPIs and governance.
• Partner with USAC leadership, HR, Finance, Commercial Excellence, and other enterprise functions on role mapping, change management, and productivity tracking.
• Establish governance cadences, manage communications, identify adoption barriers, and embed operating-model changes through customer planning cycles.
• Coordinate with CBG and enterprise transformation teams to ensure USAC changes align with broader enterprise direction while minimizing duplication.

Job description

3M in Minnesota seeks a Director to lead USAC Commercial Transformation. You will own the transformation agenda, drive the operating model adoption, and partner across HR, Finance, and enterprise functions to deliver cross-functional change.

The role focuses on documenting workflows, setting KPIs, and embedding new ways of working across a matrixed organization. On-site role based at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN with travel up to 20%.