Global Planning Lead

Global Planning Lead

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 wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

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

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As a Global Planning Lead, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. This role will partner with the plan, source, make, deliver, and business supply chain teams within enterprise supply chain, and the business teams to identify continuous improvement opportunities and solutions enabling efficient growth by improving service, cost, and cash.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading and supporting mid to long term strategic capacity planning process for responsible value streams, and partner with the Business Supply Chain leaders to actively monitor capacity of key value streams globally
• Leading and supporting complex NPI, Portfolio, PIPO, and SOS change projects to ensure flawless planning execution
• Leading and supporting cross-functional activities tied to the Plan, Make, Source, and Deliver pillars within the enterprise supply chain organization to deliver on service, cost, and cash initiatives enabling efficient sales growth.
• Participating in the S&OP process rhythm, and leading where needed for more complex value streams
• Leading and supporting the level loading plans needed by supply, production, and material planning teams where constraints exist throughout the end-to-end value stream.
• Leading and supporting the end-to-end planning requirements for key value streams, as assigned
• Being responsible for planning process ownership and subject matter expertise as assigned

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) combined years of experience in Logistics and/or Supply Chain in a private, public, government, or military environment

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

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and/or Business Administration from an accredited university
• APICS certification
• Experience working on international teams
• Experience in successfully designing and implementing step changes in extended value stream performance
• Experience within multiple supply chain roles (demand, supply, production materials, and distribution/transportation planning)
• Understanding of advanced supply chain concepts and their financial impact (inventory turns, cash flow and working capital)
• Strong working knowledge of the processes associated with the end-to-end supply chain, including New Product Introduction (NPI), PIPO, capacity planning, sourcing, manufacturing (internal and external), logistics, and service
• Green Belt or Black Belt experience/certification
• Advanced analytical skills to understand and master complex optimization techniques
• Project Management experience

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.

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).