# Director, Strategy & Business Development – Consumer Business at Arist

- Company: Arist
- What the company does: Arist combines employee insight with workforce data to find critical business gaps, build targeted interventions, and measure impact. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.arist.co
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US, Minnesota, Maplewood
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $287K to $351K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://3m.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Search/job/US-Minnesota-Maplewood/Director--Strategy---Business-Development_R01170955
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/arist-director-strategy-and-business-development-consumer-business/

## About the role

3M’s Consumer Business Group (CBG) is the ~$5 billion business behind Post-it®, Scotch®, Command™, Scotch-Brite®, Filtrete™, Meguiar’s®, Nexcare™ and ACE™ — brands that hold the #1 or a leading share position in the large majority of the categories where they compete, backed by 3M’s material-science innovation engine and margins at the top of the consumer peer set.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
- Five (5) years of experience leading strategy or transformation projects end to end, from problem framing and hypothesis-driven analysis through executive alignment and implementation
- Five (5) years of experience building P&L, business-case, and scenario models and working with consumer, retail, pricing, promotion, or syndicated data
- Five (5) years of experience influencing and partnering across a matrixed organization, including functions such as Finance, Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain, R&D, or HR
- MBA or equivalent graduate degree from an accredited institution
- Experience at a top-tier strategy consulting firm serving the consumer sector, a leading CPG brand owner, or a leading retailer — ideally more than one of these