Job Description
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
Ford’s Model E team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. Model e is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. **
In this position...**
The Senior Manager of Business Strategy will join the Agile Business Team, a team that also has rich expertise in product, design, and research, within the Model e CX organization. In this role, the Business Strategist will apply rigorous analytical thinking and a sharp ROI lens to help our team shape the products and experiences that we bring to customers.
The role supports our Model e business across the entire CX spectrum: from the shop-buy process, to the ownership experience, to charging (both at home and away from home). **
Responsibilities**
What you'll do...
- Work alongside Ford leadership and your team to establish a transformative vision, and be relentless in delivering products, services, and experiences that our customers can’t live without
- Apply rigorous analytical thinking and an ROI lens to help us shape and prioritize among our portfolio of products and experiences we are delivering, and to ensure that we are building experiences that will win against the competition and deliver value to customers and to Ford, now and in the future
- Do this work in close collaboration with cross-functional teams—across Design, Engineering, Business, and Operations teams, both inside and outside of Model e
- Guide prioritization, planning, and execution of workstreams and ensure alignment across functions
- Make data-driven decisions through rapid iteration, experiments in market, and learning through feedback from real customers
- Communicate highly complex concepts and plans to a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders, and evangelize the strategy to executive leadership
- Build strong relationships across a variety of functions to establish trust, make decisions, and drive action
- Deliver clearly articulated strategic vision and value propositions, in elegant spreadsheets, text documents, and simple presentations
- Cultivate business acumen in more junior teammates, and teach them how to perform these analyses as well—to build the team’s skillset
Qualifications
You'll have...
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Finance or a Law Degree or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience in a high-achieving and competitive corporate environment preferably within a large enterprise, investment bank, consulting company or similar.
- 5 + years of experience building business cases utilizing data, strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to translate ambiguous problems into elegant solutions. This experience should also demonstrate a mixture of the following skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to engage effectively at all levels from executive leadership to customers, across geographies and cultures.
- Grit, determination, and resiliency to challenge the status quo, and motivate team members and leadership to break through compromises and make bold decisions.
- Strong “EQ,” an interest in working with team members with diverse skills and backgrounds.
- A teacher’s mindset, grace in working with team members, and a sense of humor. The ability to disarm teammates and make them feel at ease.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, establishing goals and crafting a plan in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
Even better, you'll have...
- MBA, Law Degree, PhD or similar advanced education.
- Experience directly managing teams, especially with distributed teams.
- Experience with Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking principles.
- Experience working at a top consulting company or investment bank.
- Experience designing and building digital products and bringing them to market.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply.
This job is offered as remote, but it will require regular travel to Southeast Michigan nticipated to be Tuesday- Thursday, once a month.
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-LL5-sal-plan-1.pdf
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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