IT Manager Jobs in Minnesota
IT Manager jobs in Minnesota are concentrated in the Twin Cities metro, with additional activity in Rochester and Duluth, where organizations across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government rely on strong technical leadership. Employers like UnitedHealth Group, Mayo Clinic, and 3M maintain deep and ongoing demand for it managers who can oversee infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity strategy, and enterprise application environments. Openings exist across seniority levels, from team leads stepping into their first management role to senior directors overseeing multi-site technology operations. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Job Description:
Senior IT Vendor Manager
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 wide variety 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 Senior IT Vendor Manager leads a global portfolio of strategic technology suppliers across hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, and managed services. This role serves as the primary IT relationship owner for assigned suppliers and is accountable for vendor strategy, commercial governance, contract lifecycle management, performance, financial optimization, risk mitigation, compliance, and measurable value realization.
The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders and will partner closely with Corporate Procurement, Finance, Legal, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, IT Asset Management, and technology delivery teams. The role requires strong commercial judgment, executive communication, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to manage complex supplier relationships in a global environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Vendor Leadership
- Develop and execute vendor strategies aligned with enterprise technology roadmaps, sourcing objectives, architecture standards, and business priorities.
- Serve as the IT relationship owner and escalation point for assigned strategic technology suppliers.
- Lead executive governance meetings, quarterly business reviews, supplier scorecards, and performance improvement plans.
- Drive supplier accountability for committed outcomes, innovation, service quality, commercial value, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for vendor consolidation, rationalization, demand management, and improved competitive leverage.
Commercial and Contract Lifecycle Management
- Lead IT business participation across the contract lifecycle, including new agreements, renewals, amendments, statements of work, cloud commitments, SaaS subscriptions, enterprise license agreements, managed services, and professional services engagements.
- Partner with Corporate Procurement on sourcing strategies, RFQs, RFPs, competitive events, negotiations, and supplier selection.
- Define clear business requirements, deliverables, service levels, acceptance criteria, milestones, pricing structures, termination rights, and commercial protections.
- Maintain forward-looking visibility to renewals, commitments, risks, dependencies, and decision dates.
- Resolve complex commercial, contractual, service, and relationship escalations through coordinated cross-functional action.
Software, SaaS, Cloud and Hardware Governance
- Manage strategic software publishers, SaaS providers, cloud providers, infrastructure suppliers, endpoint manufacturers, resellers, and technology service partners.
- Partner with IT Asset Management to improve software entitlement, utilization, compliance, audit readiness, lifecycle management, and retirement decisions.
- Partner with cloud engineering, architecture, FinOps, and Finance teams to improve cloud consumption visibility, commitment utilization, forecasting, and cost optimization.
- Coordinate hardware lifecycle, technology refresh, warranty, support, inventory, logistics, and supplier performance considerations with asset and operations teams.
- Ensure commercial models support portability, scalability, resiliency, security, and practical exit options.
Performance, Financial and Risk Management
- Establish and monitor SLAs, KPIs, operational metrics, financial commitments, deliverables, and corrective actions.
- Manage a significant portfolio of technology spend and identify measurable savings, demand avoidance, cost optimization, and value realization opportunities.
- Provide concise executive reporting on spend, forecast, savings, commitments, supplier performance, renewal exposure, and material risks.
- Ensure supplier compliance with corporate policies, security requirements, privacy obligations, regulatory expectations, contractual requirements, and audit controls.
- Lead supplier risk mitigation and continuity planning in partnership with appropriate control functions.
Cross-Functional and Organizational Leadership
- Coordinate IT stakeholders and Corporate Procurement through a clear, integrated operating model with defined ownership and governance gates.
- Influence senior stakeholders across IT, Finance, Legal, Security, Procurement, Architecture, Operations, and business functions.
- Provide coaching, and subject-matter leadership to managers, analysts, project teams, and external partners.
- Improve standard processes, data quality, reporting, contract repositories, workflow adoption, and vendor-management maturity.
- Support technology transformation initiatives requiring complex supplier, licensing, cloud, asset, sourcing, and commercial decisions.
Leadership Capabilities
- Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to translate technology needs into clear supplier and contract strategies.
- Confident executive communicator who can present complex commercial, financial, operational, and risk matters concisely.
- Strong negotiator and relationship leader who balances partnership with accountability.
- Data-driven and disciplined, with strong attention to commitments, milestones, controls, and measurable outcomes.
- Comfortable operating through ambiguity, transformation, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
Measures of Success
- Improved supplier performance, accountability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Measurable savings, cost avoidance, demand optimization, and value realization.
- Increased visibility and control across contracts, renewals, commitments, spend, and risk.
- Improved software, SaaS, cloud, and hardware lifecycle outcomes.
- Stronger alignment among IT, Corporate Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, and supplier partners.
- Reduced commercial, compliance, continuity, and audit exposure.
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 information technology, business, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a technology discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
- Ten (10) years of experience in IT vendor management, technology sourcing, IT asset management, technology procurement, contract management, supplier governance in a private, public, government or military environment.
- Seven (7) years of experience managing enterprise technology suppliers and complex commercial relationships in a private, public, government or military environment.
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
- Demonstrated experience with complex software, SaaS, cloud, hardware, managed services, or professional services agreements.
- Demonstrated experience managing multimillion-dollar technology portfolios, renewals, negotiations, supplier performance, and executive escalations.
- Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
- Experience with enterprise software licensing, publisher audits, SaaS optimization, cloud consumption agreements, infrastructure suppliers, and managed services.
- Knowledge of Technology Business Management, FinOps, IT Asset Management, ITIL, strategic sourcing, and supplier-risk practices.
- Experience using platforms such as GEP, SAP, Flexera One, ServiceNow, Apptio, Power BI, or comparable enterprise tools.
- Professional certifications such as TBM, FinOps, IAITAM, ITIL, CPSM, CSCP, or relevant cloud certifications.
- Experience working in a global, highly matrixed technology organization.
Work location:
- This role has on-site working model in the office at 3M Center, located in Maplewood, MN.
Travel: May include up to 5%
Relocation: Not authorized
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.
Chat with Max
For assistance with searching through our current job openings or for more information about all things 3M, visit Max, our virtual recruiting assistant on 3M.com/careers.
Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.
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Job Description:
Senior IT Vendor Manager
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 wide variety 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 Senior IT Vendor Manager leads a global portfolio of strategic technology suppliers across hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, and managed services. This role serves as the primary IT relationship owner for assigned suppliers and is accountable for vendor strategy, commercial governance, contract lifecycle management, performance, financial optimization, risk mitigation, compliance, and measurable value realization.
The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders and will partner closely with Corporate Procurement, Finance, Legal, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, IT Asset Management, and technology delivery teams. The role requires strong commercial judgment, executive communication, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to manage complex supplier relationships in a global environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Vendor Leadership
- Develop and execute vendor strategies aligned with enterprise technology roadmaps, sourcing objectives, architecture standards, and business priorities.
- Serve as the IT relationship owner and escalation point for assigned strategic technology suppliers.
- Lead executive governance meetings, quarterly business reviews, supplier scorecards, and performance improvement plans.
- Drive supplier accountability for committed outcomes, innovation, service quality, commercial value, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for vendor consolidation, rationalization, demand management, and improved competitive leverage.
Commercial and Contract Lifecycle Management
- Lead IT business participation across the contract lifecycle, including new agreements, renewals, amendments, statements of work, cloud commitments, SaaS subscriptions, enterprise license agreements, managed services, and professional services engagements.
- Partner with Corporate Procurement on sourcing strategies, RFQs, RFPs, competitive events, negotiations, and supplier selection.
- Define clear business requirements, deliverables, service levels, acceptance criteria, milestones, pricing structures, termination rights, and commercial protections.
- Maintain forward-looking visibility to renewals, commitments, risks, dependencies, and decision dates.
- Resolve complex commercial, contractual, service, and relationship escalations through coordinated cross-functional action.
Software, SaaS, Cloud and Hardware Governance
- Manage strategic software publishers, SaaS providers, cloud providers, infrastructure suppliers, endpoint manufacturers, resellers, and technology service partners.
- Partner with IT Asset Management to improve software entitlement, utilization, compliance, audit readiness, lifecycle management, and retirement decisions.
- Partner with cloud engineering, architecture, FinOps, and Finance teams to improve cloud consumption visibility, commitment utilization, forecasting, and cost optimization.
- Coordinate hardware lifecycle, technology refresh, warranty, support, inventory, logistics, and supplier performance considerations with asset and operations teams.
- Ensure commercial models support portability, scalability, resiliency, security, and practical exit options.
Performance, Financial and Risk Management
- Establish and monitor SLAs, KPIs, operational metrics, financial commitments, deliverables, and corrective actions.
- Manage a significant portfolio of technology spend and identify measurable savings, demand avoidance, cost optimization, and value realization opportunities.
- Provide concise executive reporting on spend, forecast, savings, commitments, supplier performance, renewal exposure, and material risks.
- Ensure supplier compliance with corporate policies, security requirements, privacy obligations, regulatory expectations, contractual requirements, and audit controls.
- Lead supplier risk mitigation and continuity planning in partnership with appropriate control functions.
Cross-Functional and Organizational Leadership
- Coordinate IT stakeholders and Corporate Procurement through a clear, integrated operating model with defined ownership and governance gates.
- Influence senior stakeholders across IT, Finance, Legal, Security, Procurement, Architecture, Operations, and business functions.
- Provide coaching, and subject-matter leadership to managers, analysts, project teams, and external partners.
- Improve standard processes, data quality, reporting, contract repositories, workflow adoption, and vendor-management maturity.
- Support technology transformation initiatives requiring complex supplier, licensing, cloud, asset, sourcing, and commercial decisions.
Leadership Capabilities
- Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to translate technology needs into clear supplier and contract strategies.
- Confident executive communicator who can present complex commercial, financial, operational, and risk matters concisely.
- Strong negotiator and relationship leader who balances partnership with accountability.
- Data-driven and disciplined, with strong attention to commitments, milestones, controls, and measurable outcomes.
- Comfortable operating through ambiguity, transformation, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
Measures of Success
- Improved supplier performance, accountability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Measurable savings, cost avoidance, demand optimization, and value realization.
- Increased visibility and control across contracts, renewals, commitments, spend, and risk.
- Improved software, SaaS, cloud, and hardware lifecycle outcomes.
- Stronger alignment among IT, Corporate Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, and supplier partners.
- Reduced commercial, compliance, continuity, and audit exposure.
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 information technology, business, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a technology discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
- Ten (10) years of experience in IT vendor management, technology sourcing, IT asset management, technology procurement, contract management, supplier governance in a private, public, government or military environment.
- Seven (7) years of experience managing enterprise technology suppliers and complex commercial relationships in a private, public, government or military environment.
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
- Demonstrated experience with complex software, SaaS, cloud, hardware, managed services, or professional services agreements.
- Demonstrated experience managing multimillion-dollar technology portfolios, renewals, negotiations, supplier performance, and executive escalations.
- Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
- Experience with enterprise software licensing, publisher audits, SaaS optimization, cloud consumption agreements, infrastructure suppliers, and managed services.
- Knowledge of Technology Business Management, FinOps, IT Asset Management, ITIL, strategic sourcing, and supplier-risk practices.
- Experience using platforms such as GEP, SAP, Flexera One, ServiceNow, Apptio, Power BI, or comparable enterprise tools.
- Professional certifications such as TBM, FinOps, IAITAM, ITIL, CPSM, CSCP, or relevant cloud certifications.
- Experience working in a global, highly matrixed technology organization.
Work location:
- This role has on-site working model in the office at 3M Center, located in Maplewood, MN.
Travel: May include up to 5%
Relocation: Not authorized
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.
Chat with Max
For assistance with searching through our current job openings or for more information about all things 3M, visit Max, our virtual recruiting assistant on 3M.com/careers.
Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.
3M Global Terms of Use and Privacy Statement
Carefully read these Terms of Use before using this website. Your access to and use of this website and application for a job at 3M are conditioned on your acceptance and compliance with these terms.
Please click on the following links and select the country where you are applying for employment to review the applicable Terms of Use (link here) and Privacy Policy (link here). Before submitting your application, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms.
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IT Manager Job Market in Minnesota
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- Manufacturing
- Accounting & Auditing
- Agriculture & Farming
- Technology & Software
What Minnesota Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in IT manager jobs across Minnesota.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related technical field
- Five or more years of hands-on IT experience with at least two in a supervisory role
- Demonstrated ability to manage enterprise infrastructure, networks, and security environments
- Experience with IT governance frameworks such as ITIL, ISO 27001, or COBIT
- Strong vendor management and IT budget planning experience in a large organization
- Relevant certifications such as PMP, CompTIA Security+, or CISSP preferred by Minnesota employers
IT Manager Jobs in Minnesota: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become an it manager in Minnesota?
Most it managers in Minnesota follow a path that begins with a bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field, followed by several years of hands-on technical work before moving into management. There is no state-issued license required to work as an it manager in Minnesota, but employers across healthcare, finance, and government strongly prefer candidates who hold industry credentials such as PMP, ITIL certifications, or CompTIA Security+. Building leadership experience through team lead or project management roles at Minnesota-based employers is the most direct route.
How much do IT managers make in Minnesota?
IT managers in Minnesota earn a median of about $176,380 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $110,830 for the lowest 10% to over $277,490 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire it managers in Minnesota?
Employers hiring it managers in Minnesota right now include 3M, Cirrus Aircraft, and New Wave Design, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Minnesota's large healthcare systems, financial services firms, and manufacturing headquarters are consistently among the most active sources of it manager openings in the state.
Which Minnesota cities have the most it manager jobs?
Minneapolis, Duluth, and Eden Prairie have the most it manager openings in Minnesota. The Twin Cities metro drives the majority of demand, anchored by major corporate headquarters and large healthcare and financial services employers, while Rochester's activity reflects the substantial technology and operations footprint of Mayo Clinic and its affiliated organizations.
Are there remote it manager jobs in Minnesota?
Yes, though the role often requires on-site presence for infrastructure oversight, team management, and vendor coordination. About 75% of it manager openings tied to Minnesota are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with remote arrangements more common in organizations where IT operations are largely cloud-based or where the manager oversees distributed teams rather than physical data centers or on-premises systems.
How can I get hired as an it manager in Minnesota with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into an it manager role from a senior technical position such as systems administrator, network engineer, or IT analyst, then taking on informal team lead responsibilities before applying for a formal management title. Large Minnesota employers like UnitedHealth Group, Mayo Clinic, and Target run structured leadership development and associate program tracks that help technical staff build the management competencies hiring managers expect. Earning a project management credential and volunteering to lead cross-functional IT initiatives are the most effective ways to make that transition credible to Minnesota employers.
Where can I find and apply to it manager jobs in Minnesota?
You can find and apply to it manager jobs in Minnesota on Migrate Mate, which lists current Minnesota openings from employers across the state. Search the listings, find roles that match your experience and location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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