Description
As a Manager, Investor Relations at 3M, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the investment community engagement and execution of the company's investor relations outreach strategy.
- Prepare detailed investor and analyst briefing materials, including company messaging, investment thesis analysis, financial estimates, and anticipated questions.
- Maintain a strong understanding of key shareholders, prospective investors, and sell-side analysts.
- Track investor feedback, sentiment, ownership changes, and key areas of investor focus.
- Support management preparation for investor meetings and conferences.
- Coordinates investor relations events and manages the IR calendar, including investor conferences, roadshows, and earnings activities, ensuring seamless scheduling and alignment across stakeholders.
Financial & Capital Markets Analysis
- Analyze sell-side consensus, company financial performance, operating trends, valuation, and key performance indicators.
- Monitor industry, peer company, market, and macroeconomic trends relevant to the company and its investment thesis.
- Conduct competitive benchmarking and peer analysis, including financial performance, valuation multiples, guidance, and investor messaging.
- Monitor sell-side research, earnings estimates, price targets, ratings, and changes in analyst expectations.
- Identify trends and potential investor concerns and communicate relevant insights to IR and Finance leadership.
- Maintain financial models, consensus estimates, and valuation analyses.
Earnings & External Communications
- Support the quarterly earnings process, including preparation of earnings materials, management briefing documents, Q&A, and investor communications.
- Monitor consensus estimates and identify significant differences between company expectations and Wall Street expectations.
- Prepare earnings-related analysis and post-earnings investor feedback.
- Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Accounting, Communications, Legal, and business leadership to understand business performance and strategic priorities.
- Support special projects, including Investor Day, CES, 3M Open, strategic announcements, capital allocation initiatives, and other significant corporate announcements and events.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
- Seven years of relevant experience in investor relations, investment banking, equity research, corporate finance, FP&A, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong understanding of financial statements, valuation methodologies, capital markets, and financial analysis.
- Experience working with institutional investors and/or sell-side analysts preferred.
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear, concise investor messaging.
- Ability to serve as an AI champion for the Investor Relations function, identifying and implementing opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence to improve IR efficiency, analytics, investor engagement, and decision-making.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
- Ability to work effectively with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong judgment and discretion when handling confidential and market-sensitive information.