Global Portfolio Leader - Electrical OEM

Job Description:

Global Portfolio Leader - Electrical OEM

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 Global Portfolio Leader, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.

Sets and drives the strategic direction for the global Tapes & Electrical Supplies portfolios (PC2310) to ensure long-term growth, innovation, and brand/product vitality. Anchored deep in customer and market insight, the GPL aligns portfolio strategy, innovation, and commercialization across geographies to deliver sustainable value. The role balances strategic foresight with near-term execution, guiding cross-functional and regional teams through influence, collaboration, and disciplined prioritization.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Portfolio Strategy and Management: Develop and drive the global portfolio strategy, aligned to division priorities. Own portfolio health and long-term performance by investing in growth opportunities, rationalizing SKUs, and managing product lifecycles.
• P&L Management: Manage portfolio economics and tradeoffs with a profit-and-loss perspective, balancing growth investments with structural profitability.
• Innovation and Commercialization: Own the global NPI pipeline, connecting customer insights and market trends to deliver sustainable growth. Define the long-term vision for innovation and lead pipeline execution globally.
• Customer & Market Insight: Champion the voice of the customer and competitive landscape, ensuring portfolio and innovation choices reflect external needs and future trends.
• Brand and Pricing Strategy: Define global brand positioning and pricing strategy to drive competitiveness and value creation, ensuring consistency across markets and channels.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Lead through influence, aligning cross-functional and regional teams, navigating complex stakeholders, and driving focus on the initiatives that create the most impact.
• People Leadership: Develops the next layer(s) of GLPs, ensuring they have the exposure, experience, and skill building needed to take on GPL roles of increasing scope and responsibility.

Key Capabilities

• Strategic Vision: Develops and communicates a compelling long-term vision for portfolio growth, using storytelling to inspire alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Market & Customer Insight: Brings deep external perspective on market trends, customer behaviors, and competitive dynamics to inform trade-offs and anticipate future needs.
• Portfolio & Innovation Acumen: Strong understanding of product lifecycles, portfolio health, and innovation processes; able to translate insights into clear strategic choices.
• Financial Acumen: Manages P&L levers, pricing, and portfolio economics; applies financial analysis and forecasting to drive sustainable value creation.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Inspires and aligns diverse cross-functional teams, influences without authority, fosters collaboration, and proactively removes barriers.
• Organizational Savvy: Navigates complex stakeholder landscapes with enterprise mindset; builds trust and credibility to align competing priorities across the matrix.
• Agility & Prioritization: Balances long-term strategy with short-term delivery; pivots quickly, says no when needed, and focuses teams on impact.
• Resilience & Consistency: Provides steadiness, clarity, and composure under pressure, sustaining performance and confidence through complexity.
• Global Mindset: Balances global alignment with local adaptation, leveraging insights across geographies to strengthen portfolio outcomes.

Technical Fluencies

• Portfolio economics and pricing governance: Knows how to interpret price/mix/margin drivers, apply guardrails, and escalate deviations with a clear point of view on value creation.
• NPI/Stage-Gate and portfolio lifecycle: Can evaluate which projects to accelerate, pivot, or stop, and how to allocat