Director, HR Business Partner

Join Ford Motor Company as the Director, HR Business Partner for the Go to Market Enterprise Technology Team. In this role, you will set the people strategy for the portfolio and partner with its leaders to ensure they have the organization, talent, and culture required to deliver the plan.

Responsibilities:

• Set the portfolio people strategy, including an annual people operating plan and multi-year capability roadmap tied to the business plan, growth assumptions, and cost structure.
• Serve as a full member of the client leadership teams, contributing to business strategy, investment, and headcount decisions.
• Translate business strategy into workforce implications, including capability gaps, build/buy/borrow choices, location and cost strategy, span and layer targets, and sequence.
• Partner with Finance on workforce cost and productivity, including position control discipline and the people case behind productivity commitments.
• Support organizational optimization and efficiency targets, and eliminate non-value-add work.
• Coach senior leaders and their teams on effectiveness, decision quality, and their personal impact on culture.
• Improve the quality of material business decisions and own the result, measured by business outcomes.
• Set the culture and employee experience standards, decision rights, and leader capability that keep issues from becoming cases.
• Drive psychological safety and voice, including People Action Plans by team, employee concerns deeply understood, and say-do ratio actively managed.
• Hold consistency across client groups so the same facts produce the same outcome, and set precedent deliberately rather than by drift.
• Build leader capability so leaders carry their own accountability for performance conversations and consistent policy application.
• Use metric trends and root cause analysis as a leadership diagnostic, and sponsor prevention rather than repeat case handling.
• Partner with the People Matters COE and Legal on designated and high-risk matters, ensuring outcomes are fair, timely, and defensible.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, or a related discipline, or commensurate work experience.
• 10-12 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, including 3-5 years in a leadership or portfolio-level role, with demonstrated organization design, change leadership, and senior-leader coaching.
• Breadth across HR disciplines, business units, and client environments.
• Depth in a structured problem-solving or business system methodology (A3, PDCA, Hoshin, lean, or equivalent), including coaching others in its use.
• Demonstrated record of improving senior business decisions and owning the results.

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare, 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