Manager, Corporate Strategy

About the role

The Corporate Strategy team at Ford works on the most impactful strategic issues for the global Ford enterprise, focusing and prioritizing complex challenges facing the company, and defining the strategic choices that positively change the direction of the company in advancing its Ford+ objectives. Strategy managers are key workstream leads on projects and are critical to the success of deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Hypotheses generation: Rigorously and logically identify issues covering the entire problem in the assigned work stream(s), working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders.
• Structuring and solving the problem: Determine the most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems, taking advantage of the strategy organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections.
• Conducting analyses: Ensure high quality and accurate analysis; select the most effective analytical approaches and guide the team in applying leading-edge techniques; ensure the team develops a robust fact base, creatively addressing data constraints.
• Synthesis and generating recommendations: Develop compelling insights from complex analysis. Synthesize complex analysis with an ability to draw out and prioritize key conclusions and independently develop sound recommendations.
• Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and in writing.
• 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

• Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5-10 years of experience (or Master’s Degree and 3-5 years of experience).
• 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.
• 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), and Word (white papers).

Qualifications

• MBA preferred.
• Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects at a global scale.
• Prior experience in a professional services firm is a plus but not required.
• Technical background with advanced analytics.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

Schedule

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.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.