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Director, Strategy & Business Development – Consumer Business
3M Company · 🇺🇸 US, Minnesota, Maplewood
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
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.
- What 3M Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Software Development Engineer” (Software Developers) in MN: $142k–$226k, median $184k. Most were filed at wage level III (100%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- 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: Job Title Director, Strategy & Business Development – Consumer Business 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 3M’s Consumer Business Group (CBG) is the ~$5 billion business behind Post-it®, Scotch®, Command™, Scotch-Brite®, Filtrete™, Meguiar’s®, Nexcare™ and ACE™ — brands that hold the #1 or a leading share position in the large majority of the categories where they compete, backed by 3M’s material-science innovation engine and margins at the top of the consumer peer set. CBG is in the middle of a deliberate transformation into a top-tier consumer packaged goods organization: one global brand-portfolio operating model executed across five area markets, and three growth priorities — portfolio reinvention, demand generation, and distribution & channel. The Strategy & Business Development team reports to the Consumer Group President, and it sits where the $5 billion choices get made. This Director role reports to the Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, and is built for someone who has led hypothesis-driven strategy or transformation work at a top-tier consulting firm or inside a leading CPG company and now wants to own the answer and the outcome, not just the recommendation. You will own two to three CBG-priority initiatives at a time, from blank page to embedded change, with the mandate and air cover to land them, and you will shape the materials that go to the Group President, CEO, and Board. As a Director, Strategy & Business Development – Consumer Business , 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: • Shaping CBG’s multi-year strategic roadmap — building the three-year plan and the category, channel, and area strategies beneath it (where to play, how to win, what to stop), with explicit revenue, margin, and investment implications. • Leading two to three high-priority transformation initiatives end to end — from problem framing and hypothesis-driven analysis through execution, adoption, and measured P&L impact — across operating-model redesign, portfolio simplification, revenue growth management, ecommerce and retail media, and international go-to-market. • Evaluating and building business development opportunities — screening acquisitions, licensing, divestitures, and strategic partnerships against CBG’s strategic filters, and building the business cases that inform investment decisions. • Running CBG’s strategic planning and performance cadence — annual operating planning, KPI definition, initiative tracking, and long-range planning with Finance — so it works as a decision engine rather than a reporting exercise. • Preparing executive-ready materials and decision support for the CBG leadership team, Group President, CEO, and Board forums, while leading cross-functional project teams and external advisors to deliver. What you get in return: a direction-setting seat in a $5 billion consumer business at a pivotal moment in its transformation; a focused set of priority initiatives with the mandate to land them; ongoing exposure to the CBG leadership team, Group President, and 3M enterprise leadership; and a recognized l