Description
About Ford Energy
Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating US energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Responsibilities
This role will lead strategic sourcing, issue and evaluate RFQs, manage commercial issues, lead negotiations and be responsible for overall supplier management. This role’s primary area of responsibility is to manage electrical purchasing components for large energy storage systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with business teams to develop and execute procurement plans aligned with business strategies and priorities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders including executive-level regional business leads.
- Design, conduct and synthesize supplier, industry and market research for assigned commodities to develop sourcing strategies.
- Provide analysis of requirements, spend, and savings to ensure the most cost-effective options.
- Identify and negotiate commercial cost reduction opportunities based on a solid understanding of cost drivers and contracts.
- Develop and manage suppliers according to business needs and maintain day-to-day supplier relationships; act as the lead point of contact for commercial discussion.
- Issue RFXs for sourcing assigned commodities, review raised purchase requests and support/lead a strategic sourcing approval process.
- Work on “Lean” initiatives and identify other sourcing efficiencies via benchmarking, competitive quotes and resourcing.
- Ensure compliance with procurement policies and processes.
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement principles, policies and processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering and/or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in operations, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain or related area.
- 4+ years experience of negotiating contracts and/or relationship management.
- 2+ years of leading successful supply chain teams.
Preferred qualifications include:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in operations, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain or related area.
- Experience working with electrical components, including semiconductors and electrical distribution.
- Superb communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to take initiative and operate independently.
- Experience with ERP and procurement tools (e.g., Coupa, SAP Ariba, Oracle).
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $112,680-212,760.