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Manager, B2B Customer Insights
3M Company · 🇺🇸 US, Minnesota, Maplewood
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — 3M Company
The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description: Manager, B2B Customer Insights 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 Ro le As a Manager, B2B Customer Insights, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. You will sit within the B2B Customer Insights Center of Excellence, owning and leading research that shapes how 3M understands its business customers - from needs and journeys to brand, pricing, and customer experience. Here, you will make an impact by: • Designing and owning complex quantitative surveys end-to-end - crafting questionnaires for B2B audiences, overseeing programming QA and field quality, diagnosing failed field or low-incidence challenges, and coaching others on research design. • Leading qualitative research with B2B buyers, specifiers, and decision-makers - designing interview guides, moderating complex buyer and specifier interviews, and building the qualitative storyline from themes to commercial implications. • Designing sampling and field strategies that match the business decision - selecting among customer lists, panels, and specialist recruiting approaches; judging bias and feasibility for hard-to-reach B2B audiences; and documenting reachable populations, non-response, and implications for interpretation. • Translating complex business questions into executive-ready recommendations - building full narratives from surveys, interviews, CX data, and secondary inputs; creating recommendation pages that travel without the author; and presenting to senior stakeholders with clarity and conviction. • Owning end-to-end project delivery - managing scope, budget, timelines, vendor relationships, and quality gates on studies; holding the study to quality when stakeholders want speed or a pre-set answer; and maintaining reusable documentation in the CoE insight repository. • Partnering with internal stakeholders across business groups - refining briefs, connecting research outputs to business KPIs, and following insights through to agreed next actions with commercial teams. • Building the CoE’s research capability - creating reusable kits for surveys, qualitative work, and CX reporting; giving structured feedback and developing analysts against the capability model; and establishing quality standards that the team follows. • Partnering with Marketing Sciences colleagues - translating research objectives into analysis plans, aligning on weighting, significance testing, segmentation, and driver-analysis choices, and ensuring analytical outputs are interpreted correctly in recommendations. 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 or higher in marketing research, business, social science (i.e., anthropology, sociology, psychology) (completed and verified prior to start) • Seven (7) years of experience in market research, customer insights, voice-of-customer, or customer experience in a private, public, government, or military environment. • Seven (7) years of demonstrated experience designing complex quantitative surveys for industrial, technical, or other specialized / low-incidence audience