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Global Senior Insights Specialist

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers 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 diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 96,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.

"For more than 30 years at 3M, I've seen firsthand how it's a place where curious, creative and collaborative people thrive and build a rewarding career. As a leader in this company, my goal is to ensure each 3Mer sees and feels the positive impact we're making around the world" - Mike Roman, chief executive officer and chairman of the board at 3M

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role
A Insight Specialist is responsible for managing the insights activities for business teams (Marketing, R&D, Design, etc.) to inform business decisions. This individual will help teams define their business questions, scope the research/learning plan objectives, manage the execution of that plan and synthesize the resulting data/findings to formulate insights and make strategic recommendations regarding the business decision.

Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Guides business teams to the appropriate research objectives for a consumer/customer learning plan to address the most important business questions
• Recommends creative research solutions and designs learning plan to meet agreed upon business objectives
• Consults with business teams to identify key questions and identify knowledge gaps that require new insights to maximize opportunity and reduce investment risk
• Identify and understand business group/Division needs and define requirements/questions to be answered by data/insights
• Manages all phases of research projects from design through delivery of recommendations, including developing and managing the budget and managing the execution of research by outside vendors
• Conducts detailed analyses to interpret data and synthesizes multiple data points to understand the target audience(s)
• Synthesizes multiple sources of information into insights and recommendations that inform a business decision
• Brings knowledge of Insights and knowledge about the business to identify opportunities in the market and inform decision-making, advancing the impact of voice of the customer
• Align and collaborate across organizations to implement best practices for marketing insights
• Actively monitor market trends/innovations and integrate into team strategy to maintain relevance and stay competitive

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) from an accredited institution
• Five (5) years of experience in marketing and/or marketing consulting and/or insights and analytics
• Proven strategy development experience
• Proven facilitation skills

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

• Experience conducting research in B2B or other highly technical industries
• MBA or graduate studies in analytics/insights field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• International management and collaboration experience
• Executional skills and background
• Ability to pull together a story and make it actionable
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity

Travel: May include up to 20%

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

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

Supporting Your Well-being

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.

Resources for You

For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers.

Learn more about 3M's creative solutions to the world's problems at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M.

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M's business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

3M is an equal opportunity employer. 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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