# Senior Supply Chain Risk Management Specialist

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Naucalpan de Juarez
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Senior Supply Chain Risk Management Specialist at Ford's Purchasing team, you will play a crucial role in protecting the company's manufacturing operations by identifying and resolving supplier and supply chain risks before they disrupt production.

## Responsibilities

- Lead daily supply chain risk management, identifying, assessing, and escalating supplier and supply chain risks that could affect manufacturing operations.

- Independently evaluate emerging situations, challenge assumptions, identify gaps in available information or response plans, and recommend a course of action.

- Drive risk resolution by coordinating containment, recovery, and escalation efforts with suppliers and internal teams.

- Partner with purchasing, supplier technical assistance, materials planning and logistics, manufacturing plants, engineering, logistics, and leadership to protect production continuity.

- Track material availability, potential shortages, and recovery actions using supply chain data and reporting tools; turn findings into clear, actionable recommendations.

- Identify opportunities to strengthen risk prevention and response through analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools, and share insights with relevant stakeholders.

- Use analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve early risk detection, decision-making, team development, and continuous improvement.

## Qualifications

- A bachelor's degree in supply chain management, engineering, operations, business analytics, or a related field,or equivalent practical experience.

- 7 to 10 years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing operations, logistics, production planning, or a related area.

- Experience assessing operational risks, coordinating responses to disruptions, and driving issues through to resolution.

- Strong Excel and data analysis skills, including reconciling information from multiple sources and translating findings into clear priorities and actions.

- Knowledge of inventory management, capacity planning, logistics, and supplier operations.

- Familiarity with structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, 5 Whys, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.

- Ability to distinguish symptoms from root causes, and temporary containment measures from permanent corrective actions.

- Ability to validate data quality, identify information gaps, and communicate uncertainty clearly.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with incomplete information, question assumptions, and identify gaps.

- Experience collaborating across functions and with suppliers; leadership, project leadership, or cross-functional coordination experience is valuable.

- Experience using data visualization or reporting tools such as Power BI or similar platforms.

- Comfort using or learning AI-enabled tools, automation, and prompt-based workflows to support analysis and decision-making.

- Clear communication skills, including the ability to present risks, recommendations, and recovery plans to different audiences.

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- risk management
- data analysis
- problem-solving
- communication
- collaboration
- leadership
- project management
- inventory management
- capacity planning
- logistics
- supplier operations
- structured problem-solving methods
- data visualization
- AI-enabled tools
- automation

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