# Global Business Planning Lead - Interior Systems & Raw Materials

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$166,200
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Global Business Planning Lead serves as a key business partner to the Interior Systems & Raw Materials leadership team, helping translate organizational priorities into coordinated action, measurable results, and continuous improvement across the global organization.

Responsibilities:

- Support delivery of Ford+ and Supply Chain transformation priorities across Interior Systems & Raw Materials, with a focus on operational excellence, simplification, and collaboration.

- Support the Global Business Manager with the organization’s operating rhythm, strategic planning, business reviews, executive communications, and cross-functional priorities.

- Lead cross-functional projects and business initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring alignment on objectives, timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables.

- Coordinate strategic priorities and serve as a liaison among Purchasing leadership, the Supply Chain Strategy Office, Product Development, regional teams, and other key stakeholders.

- Lead governance for business performance reviews, including sourcing, cost, supplier, quality, delivery, and operational objectives.

- Monitor and report critical business risks, including supplier financial health, non-renewals, stop ships, contract expirations, commercial disputes, and other emerging issues.

- Develop concise leadership reporting that highlights high-priority issues, mitigation actions, risks, opportunities, owners, and required escalations.

- Drive process simplification by centralizing information, reducing redundant work, and maintaining SharePoint and other collaboration tools as reliable one-stop resources.

- Champion special projects such as sustainability, supplier and buyer data management, warranty reporting, systems initiatives, and other organizational priorities.

- Develop and maintain KPI reporting and executive summaries for sourcing, cost, supplier, and operational objectives; facilitate periodic reviews of risks, opportunities, and action plans.

- Support Supply Chain policy and procedure deployment by improving awareness and adoption of required processes, templates, tools, and best practices.

- Proactively identify barriers to business progress, recommend practical solutions, and help teams navigate systems and process issues.

- Coordinate change management, communications, training deployment, benchmarking, and knowledge-sharing activities for new tools, processes, and initiatives.

- Maintain organization charts, distribution lists, team contacts, and other core business-operating information.

- Champion continuous improvement that eliminates non-value-added work, improves employee experience, and strengthens innovation, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.

- Support supplier performance reviews and other cross-functional forums by coordinating stakeholders, schedules, materials, and action tracking.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field of study.

- 3-5+ years of relevant experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain, business operations, project management, or a related field.

- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and business operations tools, including SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams.

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain
- Business
- Finance
- Engineering
- Microsoft 365
- SharePoint
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Teams

### Nice to have
- MBA
- enterprise business systems

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