Associate Director, Corporate Strategy

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop a team of diverse individuals and effectively leverage their expertise.
• Project management: Lead the coordination of project engagements to organize resources and prioritize work to hit deliverables as a team in a time-constrained environment.
• Hypotheses generation: Lead the identification of issues and form hypotheses, working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders.
• Structuring and solving the problem: Determines most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems to guide the team, taking advantage of the strategy organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections.
• Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team in applying leading edge techniques; Reviews team analysis to ensure development of a robust fact base and creatively addressing data constraints.
• Synthesis and generating recommendations: Lead the team in developing insights and prioritizing key conclusions; Develops a practical set of recommendations based on impact and ease of implementation.
• Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills with executive level stakeholders by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written.
• Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a ‘player-coach’ that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables; Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain.
• Minimum 10 years of experience (or Master’s Degree and 7-10 years of experience) in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization.
• Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems.
• Understand the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must.
• Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues.
• Love teaching and mentoring colleagues.
• Advanced proficiency in Powerpoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), word (white papers).

Qualifications

• Technical background with advanced data analytics experience.

Skills

Even better, you may have...

• MBA preferred.
• Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects at a global scale.
• Prior experience in a professional services firm (e.g., consulting, private equity, investment banking).

Benefits

This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $138,240-261,720. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.