Internship - 2026 Undergraduate Global Strategic Procurement Intern

Job Description:

Internship - 2026 Undergraduate Global Strategic Procurement Intern

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.

An internship is a temporary position within 3M. Interns typically work a full-time schedule throughout a 10-12 week assignment. This position is limited to working 899 hours per service credit year. 3M provides eligible interns with a housing and transportation stipend in accordance with current policy.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

Applications on this requisition are reviewed and filled on a rolling basis; it is in a candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. Interested candidates should include a resume as part of their application.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an Undergraduate Global Strategic Procurement Intern, 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:

• Providing analytical support and leading projects for multiple assigned Procurement category teams.

• Developing and expands knowledge of strategic analysis, supplier and market analysis, benchmarking and sourcing effectiveness.

• Representing Procurement on Business unit and internal Procurement cross-functional teams.

• Increasing knowledge of Procurement strategies and activities to meet specific 3M internal business unit requirements through assigned activities and projects.

• Identifying opportunities for process improvements that improve cost and service through analysis of sourcing information and metrics.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution

• Completed at minimum a junior year (6 semesters) by the start of the internship

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

• Current cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale

• Previously completed an internship/co-op with 3M or another manufacturing company

• Experience with business processes and systems functionality within Procurement and/or Sourcing

• Intermediate (graphs, sorting data, basic formulas) proficiency with MS Excel

• Experience working with cross-functional teams

• Intermediate (hyperlinks, animation, org charts) proficiency with MS PowerPoint

• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems

Work location:

• Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.

• Relocation: 3M provides eligible interns with a housing and transportation stipend in accordance with current policy.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

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