Global Logistics Senior Manager Job Maplewood area,Minnesota USA,Supply Chain/Logistics

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Global Logistics Senior Manager

Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers 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 3

Mers.

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

As a Global Logistics Senior Manager, you will lead global customer logistics strategy, product flow optimization, and logistics transformation initiatives across regions, businesses, and functions. This role is responsible for improving how products move from source to customer, strengthening logistics governance, building global optimization capabilities, and delivering measurable productivity, service, and cost improvements. You will lead a global portfolio of logistics initiatives across customer logistics, network design, transportation optimization, control tower integration, 3PL/broker performance, inbound logistics, trade compliance operations, and continuous improvement.

The role requires strong partnership with Business Supply Chain, Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, IT, Finance, Trade Compliance, Customer Operations, regional logistics teams, and external partners.

As a Global Logistics Senior Manager, 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:

Lead the global customer logistics organization and roadmap to improve service, reduce cost, simplify flows, and strengthen end-to-end product movement.
Define and govern preferred physical product flow paths from source to customer, including integration into New Product Introduction flow plans.
Partner with Business Supply Chain, Portfolio, Planning, Customer Operations, Manufacturing, IT, Finance, and regional teams to align logistics strategy with business priorities.
Lead global logistics optimization programs, including network design, export flow optimization, direct shipping, consolidation, inbound logistics, and load factor improvement.
Oversee major productivity initiatives across transportation, 3PL excellence, broker operations, trade compliance operations analytics, and control tower performance monitoring.
Build and deploy global logistics industrial engineering capabilities, including network studies, advanced analytics, process standardization, and project replication across sites and lanes.
Establish governance, SOPs, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting tools for product flow accuracy, transit time, master data, performance monitoring, and exception management.
Drive savings delivery and value realization across a global portfolio of logistics transformation projects, including multi-year productivity opportunities.
Provide coordination and escalation support for cross-regional, cross-functional, and system-related logistics issues, including recovery plans and crisis response.
Develop and lead a high-performing global team of logistics managers, industrial engineers, analysts, specialists, and project leaders.

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 Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, Operations (completed and verified prior to start).
Ten (10) years of experience in supply chain, logistics, transportation, customer logistics,…