# Division Operations Leader, R&D

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Maplewood, MN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $221,591 - $270,834
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As the R&D Division Operations Leader, you will help translate strategy into disciplined execution across the function. Reporting to the Vice President of R&D, you will partner with R&D functional leaders, business leaders, Human Resources, Finance, Communications, and the Division PMO to align priorities, strengthen operating practices, guide organization evolution, and improve visibility to performance, resources, and risks.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead R&D strategy deployment: Partner with the R&D leader and functional heads to synthesize business and technology priorities, facilitate strategic choices, and translate direction into clear functional objectives, roadmaps, measures, and actions.

- Drive operating discipline: Establish and reinforce agreed functional standard work, review adoption with functional leaders, identify gaps, and coordinate corrective actions.

- Strengthen resource planning: Maintain current functional resource plans, improve resource-planning practices, and connect R&D resource information to division portfolio and capacity-planning processes.

- Lead the R&D operating rhythm: Facilitate leadership and organization meeting cadences, including priorities, agendas, decisions, action ownership, communications, closure, and escalation.

- Develop and execute performance measures: Work with functional owners to define KPIs, targets, governance, and review cadences; monitor performance and drive agreed actions to closure or escalation.

- Guide organization evolution: Coordinate operating-model, capability, role, and organizational changes with the R&D leader, functional heads, and Human Resources; translate decisions into implementation plans and monitor adoption.

- Improve portfolio insight: Develop models and decision-support approaches that improve program and project portfolio performance, scenario planning, and leadership decision-making.

- Enable leadership effectiveness: Surface cross-functional risks, dependencies, and decisions early; provide clear options and recommendations; and maintain follow-through on leadership commitments.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in science, engineering, business or operations.

- Five years of commercialization, product development, program management, operations, or related experience, including experience with a stage-gate development process.

- Three years of leadership or management experience in a cross-functional environment.

Preferred qualifications:

- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into priorities, operating plans, measures, and sustained execution.

- Strong business acumen and experience working across R&D, commercial, manufacturing, finance, and human resources organizations.

- Experience leading organizational change, operating-model improvement, or capability-building initiatives.

- Strong facilitation, communication, analytical, and executive-influence skills.

- Ability to work through ambiguity, frame trade-offs, resolve dependencies, and drive accountability without relying solely on direct authority.

- Experience developing KPIs, resource models, portfolio views, and decision-support materials for senior leaders.

This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week in Maplewood, MN. Travel may include up to 20% domestic/international. Relocation may be authorized.

The expected compensation range for this position is $221,591 - $270,834, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

## Skills

### Required
- science
- engineering
- business
- operations
- stage-gate development process
- leadership
- management

### Nice to have
- strategy deployment
- operating discipline
- resource planning
- portfolio insight
- leadership effectiveness
- facilitation
- communication
- analytical
- executive-influence

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