Premium Logistics Analyst

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for.

The Premier Logistics Analyst is crucial in overseeing North American supplier manufacturing from a supply chain and logistics perspective. This position demands strategic thinking, effective leadership, and the capability to manage multiple issues simultaneously across various plants and suppliers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with the Ascent and Pega tools to leverage your sense of urgency and responsiveness to plant needs to protect the daily and weekly schedules.
• Acting as a change agent to find efficiencies in current state operations to allow the new tools to expand our horizon for evaluating supply risks.
• Empowering your continuous improvement mindset to seek and mitigate premium costs.
• Providing communication and dimension of risk as needed to escalate to leadership as well as report on the issues with solutions and/or need for assistance.
• Working cross-functionally with other internal teams including Purchasing, Supplier Technical Assistance (STA), Supplier Operations Team (SOT), Product Development, and plants.

Requirements include:

• A bachelor's degree
• Prior experience in a manufacturing or supply chain organization
• Knowledge of or experience in Ford with production planning and execution
• A proven track record in supply chain operations
• Well-versed with MS Office Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Bias for action in identifying and working to solve issues identified in the clear to build horizon.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Strong data analytical skills to gather data from multiple sources to identify root causes, trends & insights and recommend operational improvements on Supplier Delivery Performance
• Strong storytelling capabilities with data to enable data-driven decision making benefiting the organization
• Strong knowledge of Ford MP&L systems like CMMS, Super G, GCP, MCPV, etc
• Knowledge of Alteryx or similar data analysis tools desired
• Knowledge of SAP