Transportation Electronic Business Group (TEBG) Vertical Business Finance Leader

Transportation Electronic Business Group (TEBG) Vertical Business Finance Leader

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 Transportation Electronic Business Group Vertical Business Finance Leader you will serve as the strategic business partner/CFO to Vertical business leaders and key members of the global leadership team in planning and executing global strategies from a business, function, and resource allocation perspective. TEBG Finance is in the phase of transforming our organizations and resource allocation to deliver top-tier business finance support to our TEBG Business Partners. Our goal is to drive sustainable, profitable growth through customer-centric innovation, effective portfolio management, and commercial excellence.

As a Finance Leader, 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:

• Drive execution of the Vertical business model, commercial success, and shareholder returns.
• Deliver value and growth with a focus on improving profitability, managing costs, creating efficiencies, and mitigating risk.
• Exhibit superior technical financial skills, influencing skills, and engagement with operating businesses, team leadership, and a strong change orientation with an international perspective.
• Efficiently partner with SVP to identify and prioritize growth sources and allocate financial resources to maintain and enhance a high-performing business portfolio.
• Focus on marquee and key accounts to leverage the full 3M portfolio.
• Gather and analyze marquee and key account insights to drive vertical strategies.
• Develop and execute vertical strategy globally.
• Track and report on the return on investment (ROI) of vertical marketing activities.
• Be an active member of the vertical operating committee, recommending topics and actions to drive business success.
• Instill financial rigor and reality into strategic planning and translate into operational plans that move at market speed.
• Focus on sustainable business process improvements while connecting value chain components to capitalize on business potential and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure a culture of compliance within the organization.
• Support organic growth through understanding of vertical markets, customers, and competitors.
• Provide high-quality guidance, information, and support to the Global BG Finance Leader.
• Drive simplicity and novel business models with a customer-centric mindset.
• Evaluate and support accretive M&A growth opportunities and ensure execution and integration as per corporate approvals.
• Maintain and energize a high-performance finance team.
• Engage with customers with a customer-centric mindset while leading optimal levels of working capital.
• Enable best practice sharing and use of common tools across all geographies.
• Attract, develop, and retain talent.

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 in business administration, economics, engineering, finance, accounting (completed and verified prior to start)
• Ten (10) years of finance or finance-related experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Three (3) years of leadership experience, with Division, Area, or sizable country FM leadership experience.

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

• MBA, data science, and statistics background preferred.
• Strong financial acumen and ability to translate complex business problems into financial terms.
• Business acumen to connect theory and practice.
• Significant experience in analytics projects/reports.
• Ability to lead in a technical field with incomplete data.
• Ability to teach and develop capabilities globally.
• Experience influencing across the organization.
• Understanding of multiple workstreams and their integration.
• Strategic thinking and solid business knowledge.
• Creative problem-solving skills.
• Risk management analysis skills.
• Self-starter with change-driving ability.
• Demonstrated talent development ability.
• International experience.

Work Location: Hybrid to a 3M Center in Maplewood or Hybrid to an office in Latin America or Europe.

Travel: May include up to 30% travel
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. 

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