Manager, Investor Relations

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Manager, Investor Relations

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 3

Mers.

As a Manager, Investor Relations, 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:

• Support the investment community engagement and execution of the company’s investor relations outreach strategy.
• Prepare detailed investor and analyst briefing materials, including company messaging, investment thesis analysis, financial estimates, and anticipated questions.
• Maintain a strong understanding of key shareholders, prospective investors, and sell-side analysts.
• Track investor feedback, sentiment, ownership changes, and key areas of investor focus.
• Support management preparation for investor meetings and conferences.
• Coordinates investor relations events and manages the IR calendar, including investor conferences, roadshows, and earnings activities, ensuring seamless scheduling and alignment across stakeholders.

• Analyze sell-side consensus, company financial performance, operating trends, valuation, and key performance indicators.
• Monitor industry, peer company, market, and macroeconomic trends relevant to the company and its investment thesis.
• Conduct competitive benchmarking and peer analysis, including financial performance, valuation multiples, guidance, and investor messaging.
• Monitor sell-side research, earnings estimates, price targets, ratings, and changes in analyst expectations.
• Identify trends and potential investor concerns and communicate relevant insights to IR and Finance leadership.
• Maintain financial models, consensus estimates, and valuation analyses.

• Support the quarterly earnings process, including preparation of earnings materials, management briefing documents, Q&A, and investor communications.
• Monitor consensus estimates and identify significant differences between company expectations and Wall Street expectations.
• Prepare earnings-related analysis and post-earnings investor feedback.
• Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Accounting, Communications, Legal, and business leadership to understand business performance and strategic priorities.
• Support special projects, including Investor Day, CES, 3M Open, strategic announcements, capital allocation initiatives, and other significant corporate announcements and events.

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 Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field (completed and verified prior to start)
• Seven (7) years of relevant experience in investor relations, investment banking, equity research, corporate finance, FP&A, or a related field in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Strong understanding of financial statements, valuation methodologies, capital markets, and financial analysis.
• Experience working with institutional investors…