Field Operations Analyst

Job Description:

Job Title

Field Operations Analyst

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 Field Operations Analyst , you will develop production plans, perform risk assessments and/or warehouse audits. You will lead projects as well as initiatives to ensure a just-in-time material flow from purchase to finished products. You will provide transportation support services to assigned plants, product divisions, branches and distribution centers regarding operational issues and cost/service improvement programs and work with carrier personnel in order to meet service requirements and to perform statistical analysis on routings and distribution methods.

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:

• Own demand signal capture and short- to medium-term volume forecasting to support container planning and booking alignment

• Build and maintain dashboards tracking first leg KPIs including cost per container, drayage spend, carrier performance, and network volume

• Conduct cost analysis and surface savings opportunities across consolidation centers and drayage spend

• Support CI target tracking against annual spend reduction goals

• Maintain accurate records across ERP, WMS, and TMS platforms

• Partner with plants, traffic management, freight forwarders, and consolidation center teams to ensure data integrity

• Produce regular reporting for leadership on first leg cost performance and trends

• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives across first leg operations

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 from an accredited university

OR

• High School Diploma/GED from an accredited institution and a minimum of 7+ years of experience in supply chain in lieu of the Bachelor’s degree education requirement

AND

• 1 year experience with ocean or air freight AND/OR drayage, intermodal, or trucking operations

• 1 year of SAP or equivalent ERP experience required

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

• Exposure to continuous improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma) preferred

• Strong analytical and communication skills; comfortable working across multiple sites and stakeholders

• Familiarity with data analytics tools and languages is a plus (SQL, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)

Work location:

• Onsite – Maplewood, MN at least 4 days a week in office

Travel: May include up to 10% Domestic/International

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).

The expected compensation range for this position is $95,750 - $115,750, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position.

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.

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