Job Description:

Job Title

Inside Sales Representative – 3M Industrial Adhesives & Tapes Division 

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 diversity 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

The Inside Sales Representative will establish and maintain customer relationships, drive sales growth through virtual customer visits, up sell, and cross sell strategically aligned products within focused markets. This will be accomplished by utilizing detailed product and market knowledge to drive opportunities through the sales cycle. This sales representative will be accountable to achieve monthly phone and activity goals while driving sales pipeline health and exceeding sales forecast through customer interactions, business plan creation and execution, and teaming with field sales representatives when appropriate.

As an Inside Sales Representative, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Using data & analytics to identify customer prospects attractive to the business 
• Establishing connections with customer prospects that ultimately develop into real business opportunities
• Establishing and maintaining customer relationships through a comprehensive understanding of the customer’s business/sales models to help manage and influence business growth
• Maintaining and updating a working sales plan with strategies and tactics to drive sales growth
• Demonstrating a proficient level of technical product knowledge & application understanding to identify solutions that meet customer needs
• Working as a collaborative team to drive opportunities efficiently; providing a positive customer experience 
• Sharing best practices with the greater team to promote a positive team environment
• Proficiently identifying market trends and account needs in order to react to market activity and reach favorable sales goals

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) from an accredited institution 

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

• Outside sales or inside sales experience
• Account management experience
• Ability to work effectively in a sales team environment - Creative problem solving abilities are preferred 
• Channel & end user customer management; selling skills experience with ability to develop account business plans based on priorities that will exceed forecast over a sustained period.
• Operate Salesforce and Power Bi to manage/document activities, interpret and manage pipelines, etc.
• Project Management & Key Account Planning
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing work environment
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to stay on tasks and maintain high productivity levels while working both in the office and remotely
• Distribution channel/ end user sales experience
• Good presentation skills; comfortable presenting to large groups
• Excellent computer skills, MS Office: PowerPoint, Excel, Word; SalesForce
• Salesforce.com Experience is desired
• Skills include solution selling, listening skills, gain commitment

Work location:  Minneapolis/St Paul, MN location preferred.  Open to remote or hybrid working environment 

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

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M’s business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

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