Associate Director, Corporate Development

What You'll Do

• Shareholder Value Creation: Strengthen and leverage the shareholder value creation mind-set and model by:
  • Systematically considering shareholder value implications in key decisions
  • Identifying, prioritizing, and pulling and pushing levers that drive shareholder value, and ensuring they are translated into strategic investment execution plans
  • Applying the shareholder value creation lens to post-acquisition integration – helping business teams develop framework for measuring and monitoring cost and revenue synergies
• Execute corporate development agenda and improve corporate development operations
• Lead cross-functional teams in the evaluation and execution of strategic investments and partnerships for Ford that fit into our broader strategy, including project management
• Oversee development of detailed financial models and valuation analysis for transactions
• Actively contribute to the negotiation of transaction terms and legal documentation
• Create memorandums and related presentations for review by the Ford senior management team, including C-Level executives as well as Ford’s Board of Directors
• Maintain key advisor relationships to generate meaningful idea flow – macroeconomic advisers, management consultants, accounting firms and investment banks
• Actively participate in enhancing Corporate Development's information data sources, knowledge management repositories, and processes
• Develop and maintain strong industry and competitive knowledge

Ensure Ford Becomes ‘Risk Intelligent’ By Building Risk Management Capabilities

• Augmenting our analyses through enmeshing “what-if” thinking into our assessments and informing and shaping scenario planning (how the business may evolve) and contingency planning (how we respond)

Talent Development And Collaboration

• Contributing To Ongoing development of team members
• Collaboration with skill teams and business units

Driving Sustainability

• Understand and incorporate viewpoints from all key stakeholders to drive decision making and share the benefits
• Drive concerted action and investments, and stays the course in the face of setbacks or push-back from short-term oriented stakeholders