Laboratory Director

Laboratory Director

Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers Around the World

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 3

Mers.

As a single sided tape leader in IATD (Lab Director), you will have the opportunity to apply your skills and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. This includes:

• Developing and implementing the global R&D strategy with a focus on accelerating the reinvigoration of innovation and commercialization of new products in IATD's
• Advancing the NPI cadence for the division including strengthen the NPI pipeline to take a step change in the NPI launch cadence.
• Leading the initiatives required to advance the R&D strategy around increasing the NPI effectiveness, NPI capacity and NPI commercial scale necessary to meet our strategic targets
• Allocating R&D resources to highest priorities including shifting R&D resources to product development
• Building capabilities in the relevant platforms including technology, product development, product engineering, customer insights and intellectual property.

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) from an accredited institution.
• Seven (7) years of R&D/innovation leadership experience in a private, public, government or military environment

• Advanced engineering degree
• Experience with adhesives highly preferred
• Skills include ability to guide an organization on a turnaround journey, leading by influence with cross functional partners, communication with and across all levels, and proactive and self-driven leadership
• Demonstrated experience with driving growth through new product development and commercialization
• Ability to build and implement an R&D strategy building the required NPI pipeline, roadmap and NPI portfolio to implement a turn around on innovation and new products
• Experience leading labs that support and bring innovation to large, demanding key accounts
• A proven track record of leading lab organization that can work at the fast pace of customers with high urgency
• Ability to build new capabilities and technology readiness to drive value and differentiation of the new product portfolio
• Inclusive leadership of the global technical teams
• Strong business acumen with ability to align to and execute technical strategies across both developed and developing markets

• Global lab leadership of the Engineered Industrial Single Sided Tapes portfolio with multiple lab sites and customers across the world
• Key account engagement from engineering to executive levels.
• Leveraging and driving alignment with the Corporate Research Labs (CRL alignment is key to our successes)

Work location: Maplewood, MN

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

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The expected compensation range for this position is $228,040 - $278,715, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith…