Portfolio Strategy Supervisor

About the role

Ford Pro is seeking a strategic, results-driven professional to help shape the future direction of our commercial vehicle business. In this role, you will define and drive the strategic direction of Ford Pro Vehicles, ensuring alignment with the overall enterprise strategy while shaping the long-term vision for the business. You'll lead market research and competitive benchmarking to identify opportunities, and translate high-level strategy into portfolio strategy. This is a highly cross-functional role where you'll collaborate closely with marketing, design, engineering, finance, and manufacturing teams to develop compelling and compatible product concepts. You will play a significant role in spearheading the future portfolio strategy that feeds Ford's cycle plan, and be responsible for translating insights into concise, compelling narratives that influence decision-making at the senior leadership level.

Responsibilities

• Lead market research and competitive benchmarking to assess opportunities
• Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps
• Craft compelling narratives and presentations for senior stakeholders
• Drive future portfolio strategy feeding into the cycle plan

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in production vehicle development, strategy, marketing, or planning
• 3+ years experience in the automotive sector, fleet/commercial vehicles, or other industries relevant to Ford Pro
• Demonstrated track record of leading high-impact projects, with the ability to think and act independently, juggle competing priorities, and drive problem-solving
• Proven ability to navigate a large, matrixed organization — building consensus and moving projects forward without direct authority
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, including facilitating teamwork, governing project teams, and mentoring colleagues
• Polished verbal communication and presentation skills, along with structured writing ability, to translate insights and business cases into narratives that influence senior stakeholders

Schedule

This role is hybrid, requiring four (4) days per week on-site in Detroit, MI.

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

Pay

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500 to $218,100. 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.