# Senior Data Scientist - Contract Service Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $132,800 - $250,800
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Third-Party Data Acquisition team at Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Data Scientist - Contract Service Manager to lead the team responsible for discovering, acquiring, and enabling third-party data. The successful candidate will translate business data requirements into vendor strategy, negotiate contracts, and bring product management discipline to acquired data.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and develop a team responsible for discovering, evaluating, and acquiring third-party data sources

- Partner with internal business stakeholders to translate data requirements into sourcing strategy and vendor selection criteria

- Apply product management practices to third-party data egress

- Drive enterprise-wide reuse of acquired data

- Govern data movement enterprise-wide via Contract Services

- Establish and maintain Data Sharing Best Practices

- Manage the team's data-portfolio budget

- Coach and develop team members

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Data Science, Information Technology, Computer Science, Analytics, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related discipline

- Master's degree preferred

- 3-5 years of contract negotiation and vendor-management experience

- 3-5 years of demonstrated people leadership experience

- 5+ years of relevant overall experience in data management, procurement, vendor management, product management, business intelligence, technology sourcing, data governance, or a closely related field

- Experience in one or more of the following: Purchasing/procurement, data management, product management, or a related technology or business discipline

- Demonstrated experience negotiating contracts or managing vendor relationships

- Experience partnering with Legal and Purchasing functions on contract terms

- Working knowledge of data governance, data sharing, or data privacy/regulatory concepts

- Prior people leadership or team management experience

- Strong stakeholder management skills

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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

Salary: $132,800 - $250,800 per year

## Skills

### Required
- data science
- contract negotiation
- vendor management
- product management
- data governance

### Nice to have
- data management
- procurement
- business intelligence
- technology sourcing

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