Manager, Key Accounts – Data Center Materials; EMI

Position: Manager, Key Accounts – Data Center Materials (EMI)
Job Description:

Job Title

Key Account Manager — Data Center Materials

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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Key Account Manager — supporting data center materials, you will own end-to-end responsibility for strategic data center ecosystem partners to enable sales of 3M products into data center applications. Reporting to the Director — Data Center Material Sales, you will drive growth across EBO optical interconnect, Twin Ax copper interconnect, thermal, acoustic, and broader material science innovation. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Own global account strategy, revenue growth, pipeline, forecasting, and executive relationships for assigned hyperscale and silicon design customers.

• Lead design-in and commercialization of EBO, Twin Ax, thermal, acoustic, and material science solutions from early engineering engagement through qualification, negotiation, launch, and scale.

• Build multi-year account plans that connect customer technology roadmaps and pain points to 3M capabilities and new growth opportunities.

• Coordinate global teams across sales, application engineering, R&D, supply chain, manufacturing, and leadership to deliver customer commitments.

• Lead complex commercial negotiations and strategic agreements that balance customer value, growth, margin, capacity, and long‑term partnership objectives.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to customer engineering, sourcing, and executive stakeholders while aligning connector, cable, package, and manufacturing partners required for adoption and scale.

Company Vehicle

This position requires driving a company vehicle, which will require pre-employment and ongoing review of motor vehicle history for candidates who are offered and hired for this position.

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 (completed and verified prior to start).

• Seven (7) years of sales, account management, business development, or field application engineering experience, including complex customer programs or strategic accounts in a private, public, government or military environment.

• Current, valid Driver’s License.

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

• Ten (10) or more years of experience in data center, cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, interconnect, electronics, thermal management, or advanced materials.
• EMI/RFI product sales experience
• Direct experience supporting data center ecosystem, silicon design, networking, or optics focused customers.
• Demonstrated track record of growing strategic accounts, securing design wins, and leading complex negotiations.
• Strong technical aptitude, executive communication, and ability to translate customer requirements into cross‑functional priorities.

Work location:

Remote-United States; field-based with regular in-person customer and ecosystem engagement.

Travel:

May include up to 20% domestic/international travel.

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