EMEA Indirect Tax Compliance Transformation Lead

3M has a long-standing reputation as a company committed to innovation. We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking, and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter. Job Description: EMEA Indirect Tax Compliance Transformation Lead 3M · GSC Philippines About the job 3M has a long-standing reputation as a company committed to innovation. We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter. 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 diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with curious, creative 3Mers. The EMEA Indirect Tax Compliance Transformation Lead will report to the Global Indirect Tax Compliance Lead. This is a hands-on operational and transformation role responsible for supporting indirect tax compliance across EMEA in a co-sourced model and helping shape a more centralised, standardised, data-driven and technology-enabled tax function. This role focuses on change: planning and delivering the EMEA indirect tax transformation roadmap, leading process transitions, solving systemic issues and building operational excellence across the region. The successful candidate will act as the connecting point between Tax, Finance, Technology, business teams and the external service provider, turning improvement ideas into structured projects with clear scope, owners, timelines and measurable benefits, and making sure that changes are adopted and sustained in the target operating model. Responsibilities will include: Transformation & Change Management • Plan and coordinate Indirect Tax Compliance transformation initiatives, keeping plans, risks, issues and decisions up to date and escalating where needed. • Support transformation governance, including updates, workstream check-ins and status reporting, to enable timely decisions and clear accountability. • Carry out structured current-state assessments across EMEA (e.g. process maturity, effort, error rates, control gaps, manual touchpoints) to support centralising, standardising, simplifying or automating activities, and help prioritise initiatives by value, risk and effort. • Coordinate internal transitions of compliance activities using a structured approach, including readiness checks, knowledge transfer, documentation, dry runs, cutover planning and post-go-live support. • Support change management including impact assessments and stakeholder, communication and readiness plans, so that stakeholders understand what is changing, why, and what is expected of them. • Maintain standard process documentation (e.g. process maps, desktop procedures, control matrices) and develop practical training and knowledge materials, helping ensure that clear ownership, controls and audit trails remain in place through process changes. • Support the build-out and development of the in-house analyst team, including onboarding plans, skills matrices, knowledge transfer and capacity planning aligned with the transition roadmap. • Conduct post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned. Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement • Help develop and maintain the EMEA indirect tax compliance governance framework - including RACI, process standards, KPIs, SLAs and performance dashboards - giving regional Compliance Lead and Tax leadership clear visibility of process health,