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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
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Job Description:
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.
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.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
This role will lead contract manufacturing category management activities globally, with a strong focus on consumer business products with full turnkey approach. This role will manage category management and supplier partnerships for a wide range of materials and processes—including metals, plastics, electronics, tooling, and final assembly—in support of high-volume, design-driven consumer products with a complete turnkey options.
This position will also drive category policies and best practices, while helping the procurement organization and 3M meet its cost savings, growth and working capital goals by leading negotiations, being part of effective NPI launches, and managing complex supplier relationships.
Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
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Category (Contract Manufacturing) Management & Supplier Development
- Develop and execute category strategies that will align with company objectives for cost, quality, innovation, and risk mitigation.
- Negotiate and establish effective vendor contract agreements, holding suppliers accountable to competitive prices, high quality and best in class service
- Drive profitability & free cash flow through supplier negotiation and development
- Conduct thorough spend analysis, market intelligence gathering, and benchmarking to identify cost reduction opportunities and improve supplier competitiveness.
- Lead total cost of ownership (TCO) evaluations, factoring in tooling investments, logistics, duties, and quality costs to ensure optimal long-term category choices.
- Identify, qualify, and manage contract manufacturers and suppliers in Asia for:
- Metal components: die casting, precision machining, stamping, extrusion.
- Plastics: injection molding, over molding, extrusion and various decoration
- Tooling: new tool development, DFM reviews, and lifecycle management.
- Electronics: PCB sourcing, SMT, PCBA assembly, harnesses, and electromechanical integration.
- Final assembly: high-quality, scalable, and cost-effective assembly of finished consumer products.
- Consumer packaging
- Build a multi-year category roadmap that supports business growth, drives standardization, and optimizes category decisions across regions
- Lead QBRs (Quarterly Business Reviews) and EBR (Executive Business Reviews) with suppliers & be able to effectively communicate with executive teams
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Product Development & Cross-Functional Support
- Primary contact and focal point to the various portfolios within Consumer Business Group to address all sourcing and supplier NPI management issues for all.
- Participate in early-stage product reviews to ensure manufacturability, cost competitiveness, and supply feasibility.
- Support DFM (Design for Manufacturability), VAVE, and tooling kickoff processes.
- Manage supplier execution of NPI (New Product Introduction) and scale-up programs.
- Collaborate with Business Unit partners to understand the long-term requirements, mapping requirements into supply base offerings
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 in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a related field. Master’s degree or MBA is a plus.
- 10+ years of category management, sourcing, procurement, or supplier management experience in a consumer product or high-mix, low-to-mid volume manufacturing environment.
- Experience with MSA, multi-year contracts, RFPs and should-cost models.
- Experience developing, leading, and executing global category strategies focused on supplier cost, risk, and lead time reduction strategies.
- Strong negotiation skills
- Direct experience working with contract manufacturers in Asia (China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to launch new consumer products with suppliers, including managing tooling, pilot builds, and ramp-up
- Knowledge of IP protection strategies for offshore manufacturing environments.
- Background in industries such as consumer electronics, personal care devices, home appliances, lifestyle products, toys, or IoT devices
- Proven track record category managing:
- Precision metal parts (cast, machined, stamped, extruded, MIM).
- Plastic components (injection molding, soft-touch overmolds, clear plastics, extrusion, blow molding, etc, SMF, Decoration).
- Tooling for both metals and plastics. Tooling cost and supplier, management
- Electronics assemblies (SMT, PCBA, basic testing).
- Final assembly of consumer products.
- Experience working in a design-led, cross-functional environment with short development cycles.
- Strong cost modeling, TCO (total cost of ownership), and supplier negotiation skills.
- Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, AS400) and sourcing tools.
- Fluent in English; Mandarin or other Asian language(s) highly preferred.
- Familiarity with CMF (Color, Material, Finish) standards and aesthetic requirement
- Willingness to travel internationally up to 25–40% as needed.
- Experience with MRP/ERP systems
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
- PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification
- Strong network and global experience with world class suppliers and contract manufacturers
Travel: May include up to 30% domestic/international
Location: Asia - Southeast Asia, HK, Singapore, Japan
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).
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