Project 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 Senior Project Leader, you will have the opportunity to lead high-priority new product commercialization and projects within the TEBG Product Management Office. In this role, you will guide cross-functional teams, align stakeholders, manage project risks and decisions, and deliver launches with strong execution discipline.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading cross-functional project teams to execute medium to large complexity New Product Introduction (NPI) and change-management projects, including project chartering, scope definition, work breakdown planning, milestone planning, gate review preparation, launch readiness, and delivery against project objectives.

• Partnering with business management, technical leaders, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, marketing, and other stakeholders to align project scope, priorities, resourcing, risks, and decision points.

• Owning project communication by establishing clear communication plans, providing regular stakeholder updates, escalating risks constructively, and driving key decisions to closure.

• Managing project schedule, scope, deliverables, resources, budget assumptions, risks, issue resolution, approvals, documentation, decision logs, and action tracking to support on-time and in-full execution.

• Applying and reinforcing project management process discipline, including use of project management tools, project plans, communication plans, risk registers, gate review deliverables, lessons learned, and other standard practices to improve project execution and team effectiveness.

• Leveraging global resources and subject matter experts across functions and geographies while coaching team members on project expectations, tools, process discipline, and effective collaboration.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

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

• Three (3) years of project management experience in a private, public, government, or military environment

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

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

• Five years of experience in new product commercialization in a private, public, government, or military environment

• Innovative, resourceful, organized, and self-directed, with excellent written and oral communication skills and analytical problem-solving ability

• Collaborative interpersonal style with experience leading large cross-functional project teams

• This role has on-site working model, with the employee working at least four days a week in the office at 3M Center, located 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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