Global Instructional Design Manager

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

As a Global Instructional Design Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading, coaching and developing a global instructional design team; setting clear expectations, delegating work and balancing capacity to deliver high-quality learning for external distributors and end users.

• Managing learning projects through analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation (ADDIE); defining scope, schedules and resources, managing risks and dependencies, and communicating progress.
• Building trusted relationships with Division and Area teams; assessing learning needs, agreeing on priorities and measurable outcomes, and negotiating deliverables, timelines and trade-offs.
• Establishing intake, workflow and quality standards; ensuring learning assets are accurate, accessible and aligned with 3M brand, copyright and legal requirements.
• Overseeing curricula, reusable templates, localization, Learning Academy publishing, version control and lifecycle updates while using learner feedback, outcome data and emerging technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)

• Five (5) years of experience in instructional design, learning development or customer education in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Demonstrated experience managing and coaching a team, setting expectations and developing team capabilities
• Demonstrated project management experience delivering multiple learning projects, including scope, schedules, resources, risks and stakeholder alignment
• Strong grounding in adult learning, objectives-based design and blended learning, with the judgment to review designs and coach others toward effective learning outcomes

• Excellent communication, consulting and relationship-building skills, including influencing cross-functional partners, negotiating priorities and translating business needs into learning solutions
• Practical instructional development background and working knowledge of Articulate 360, Adobe tools and learning management systems
• Experience leading learning initiatives across global teams or a Center of Excellence, including localization and collaboration with subject matter experts
• Experience establishing repeatable workflows, content review and quality assurance practices addressing accuracy, accessibility, brand consistency, copyright and legal requirements

• 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.

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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