Senior Supply Chain Risk Management Specialist

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.