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Ford Motor Company

Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Ford Motor Company
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hybrid senior full-time Dearborn, MI

First indexed 28 Sept 2026

Description

The Senior Director, HR Business Partner – Finance serves as the strategic people leader for global Finance organizations, partnering with senior Finance and HR leadership to shape and execute a talent agenda that enables business performance, transformation, and leadership continuity.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Finance leadership to define the people strategy required to deliver business priorities, including transformation, operating model effectiveness, succession strength, and critical capability development.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organization effectiveness, leadership capability, talent movement, workforce risk, and culture priorities that materially affect business performance.
  • Translate business strategy and workforce data into actionable talent plans, using workforce analytics, succession insights, engagement trends, and HR dashboards to identify risks, opportunities, and required interventions.
  • Lead strategic workforce planning for global skill teams, including role design, capability assessment, build/buy/borrow talent strategies.
  • Drive enterprise change management and organization transformation, ensuring leaders are equipped to communicate, adopt, and sustain new ways of working across regions and functions.
  • Advise leaders on executive succession, leadership development, technical capability pipelines, and talent readiness for future Finance roles.
  • Partner across HR centers of excellence to deliver integrated solutions across talent management, rewards, employee relations, performance management, culture, and organization development.
  • Coach senior leaders through sensitive people decisions, performance issues, employee relations matters, and employment-risk considerations with sound judgment and regulatory discipline.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related discipline, or commensurate work experience.
  • Minimum 10 years of work experience with a Master’s degree or 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Human Resources, talent strategy, organization development, employee relations, or a related field.

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.
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