Description

Job Description

Ford is undertaking a significant transformation of the Industrial System Platform.
The Industrial System IT team leads the digital transformation of engineering and manufacturing to enable Ford to deliver innovative, high-quality products and services to customers. Ford is launching a full lifecycle, end-to-end initiative to modernize how products are defined, engineered and manufactured.

• Portfolio Financial planner: In this position you will be able to lead the Demand management process across the portfolio. Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting.
• Financial Roadmap Planning: Develop and maintain a detailed financial roadmap, working closely with product owners and financial planners to ensure alignment with business goals and prioritized initiatives.
• Manage financial commitments, cost of investment & operating expense across PD-IT. Correspond with PD-IT planners to understand spend plan and variances. Assess confidence of spend and predict financial gaps.
• Supplier management, vendor Statement of work management, incl writing SOW's, one pagers, planning engagement type and executing the engagement start to finish. Supporting audits to ensure compliance.
• Manage the plan for sourcing strategy and maintain program resource mgmt., Aligning with ITBO targets and managing sourcing strategy plans across all product groups.
• Technical Product Integration: effectively present and communicate delivery plans, statuses, risks and key decisions within product teams and with Senior Management on a regular basis. Manage the demand and coordinate changes through system of delivery.
• Manage and coordinate dependencies with internal and external stakeholders. Balance multiple projects to critical path, providing regular milestone updates and risk assessments to stakeholders and Senior Management
• Assist in new process creation and roll-out
• Provide guidance to product teams on agile ceremonies, best practices, and implementation
• Help the product lead define and articulate project strategy and objectives, scope, and business requirements
• Think creatively to make recommendations regarding execution strategies and potential solutions
• Identify, research, analyze and manage risks and interdependencies within projects/systems/resources, and formulate plausible solutions and contingency plans in consultation with stakeholders and Senior Management

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of an integrated PD IT cycle plan for our budgets YOY
• Coordinate the ideation & roll out of process for demand planning and meeting the ITBO process timelines.
• Establish business value for prioritized investments
• Conduct cross product line PI planning events
• Handle formal scope definition, KPI identification & tracking and change log
• Balance demand & capacity allocation across the PD IT Portfolio
• Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting
• Maintain supplier contracts, follow ITBO process guidelines to ensure our engagements are compliant and manage sourcing strategies end to end.

Qualifications

• Bachelors in related field or work experience equivalent.
• 7+ years consistent track record driving objective accountability and ownership within cross functional teams
• 5+ years Scaled Agile System of Delivery
• 7+ years Low cost Sourcing experience
• 7+ years' experience with supplier/purchase service sourcing
• Understanding of Product Driven System of Delivery
• Strong technical product management discipline
• Politically savvy navigating the organization to achieve outcomes
• Proven ability to lead and empower team members
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking abilities
• Knowledge of engineering processes i.e., GPDS
• Resourceful and creative.
• Strong knowledge of tools, ERP Financial tools, NICUS, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Indepth knowledge of MS Excel.