Description
We are seeking a Product Development Process Transformation Leader to join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for leading the transformation of our product development processes, ensuring they are efficient, effective, and aligned with our business goals.
In this role, you will work closely with various stakeholders to understand business process requirements and design end-to-end 'future state' business process maps. You will define how program industrialization should function in a digitally transformed ecosystem.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Architecting the digital thread by designing end-to-end business process maps and defining how program industrialization should function in a digitally transformed ecosystem
- Strategic problem-solving by architecting interim 'bridge' solutions and permanent enterprise systems to ensure program industrialization remains seamless during periods of rapid change
- Driving process and data integrity by identifying and resolving cross-functional gaps across marketing, product development, supply chain, and manufacturing
- Ensuring operational health by defining and monitoring real-time KPIs to measure the efficiency of the value stream and the 'readiness' of the program to move to industrialization
- Decision governance by developing and implementing standards, guidelines, and frameworks that empower individual teams to make high-quality, high-velocity decisions
- Mitigating risk by conducting process stress tests and leading rapid-response teams to fix bottlenecks that threaten program delivery
- Building the enterprise playbook by codifying lessons learned into a scalable digital transformation framework to be used across all future programs
The ideal candidate will have:
- A bachelor's degree in any engineering domain or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- 10+ years of experience leading teams with skills including:
+ 5+ years of experience leading product development transformations/implementing disruptive process improvements across multiple organizations + The ability to assertively facilitate groups of professionals and influence outcomes for the best enterprise outcomes + Effectively communicating across, down, and up to senior leadership
- 5+ years of experience using value stream mapping to drive improvements in real-world situations in professional organizations
- 5+ years of experience and expertise with cross-functional automotive or similar industrialization processes with experience in product development and cross-functional knowledge
- Proven experience leading at least one large-scale 'digital transformation' or 'business process transformation' project from conception to completion
- 5+ years of experience in PLM systems such as Dassault 3DX and Siemens Teamcenter
Even better, you may have:
- A master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, or related field
- Automotive industry, OEM, or consulting experience
- Experience with large, complex enterprise organizations
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare, 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
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $129,600 to $244,680.