3M Group is hiring: Lead Graphic Designer in Woodbury

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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 other curious, creative 3Mers.

"Design at 3M is integral to creating distinctive brand experiences that brings our world-class innovation in science to life. Now, more than ever, the very best talent and diverse perspectives are required to create the next generation of ideas, solutions, and services for customers around the globe."- Brian Rice, senior vice president, chief brand and design officer at 3M

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 Lead Graphic Designer, you will work within cross-functional teams in the Consumer Business Group and will be responsible for the development of graphic and packaging assets for our global brands. You will work with our design team to integrate graphic design development into business strategies, support the development and execution of brand guidelines and their application across packaging and other key consumer-facing touchpoints to help drive best-in-class consumer experiences. You will also collaborate with production art project managers, packaging engineers and agency partners to prepare packaging artwork files for print production. You will independently lead multiple projects, with support from the Brand Design Principals, and Creative Directors across the CBG Design Team.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leads or coordinates complex design or design-execution projects/programs in support of functional marketing/business plans, organizational plans and 3M’s reputation and brand strategy.
• Ensures technical design specifications/contributions/structure/process/decisions align with business unit and design-function expectations.
• Delivers design content as an individual contributor in support of program/project goals.
• Develops and/or uses appropriate evaluation processes, judgment models, and/or efficiency and cost measurements to ensure any design solution meets or exceeds defined needs and strategies.
• Provides design direction, guidance, training, instruction and/or mentoring and coaching to others in the Design organization as well as other personnel on design-related issues and competencies.
• Maintains a high level of current design, design-research, design program and operations management related knowledge of current trends, design theories, methods, processes and/or issues.
• Performs all duties in support of design-function expectations and responsibilities as well as any agreed upon business unit expectations.
• Continues professional development by handling project and process assignments that require developing a more detailed understanding of business and design processes, industry best practices, and related information.
• Establishes and cultivates an extensive network of support to facilitate completion of assignments.
• May conduct training to customers and/or business teams.

Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• A 10+ years of relevant working experience or Bachelor’s degree (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university in graphic design, visual communications, or design strategy.
• A minimum of 5 combined years of working experience in graphic design with experiences in designing solutions for consumer brand packaging and packaging systems in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Effective organizational and time management skills to juggle multiple projects and deadlines.
• Proactive problem solver with attention to detail.
• Adapt to working both independently and in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Responsive to team communications.
• Proficient in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop; MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Teams. Familiar with remote collaboration and cloud-based workflows.

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

• 5-7 years relevant work experience in the design industry.
• Experience in consumer branding, packaging and retail merchandising.
• Production art knowledge and experience.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills and a passion for creative expression.
• Experience in collaborating across functions and creative teams.

Please attach a file or include a link to a non-confidential portfolio of design work along with your application.

Work location:

• Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Maplewood, MN)

Travel: May include up to 20%

Relocation Assistance: 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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