# Senior Group Manager, Direct Procurement, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Energy
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-$268,300
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Ford Energy is seeking a Senior Group Manager, Direct Procurement to lead, scale, and manage the direct material procurement department supporting Ford Energy battery energy storage systems.

The successful candidate will be accountable for establishing the departmental sourcing strategy, commercial governance, and supplier partnerships across multi-million-dollar direct material portfolios.

Key responsibilities include:

- Building, leading, and developing a high-performing department of procurement managers, category leads, and experienced sourcing specialists

- Defining and driving the mid- to long-term direct procurement strategy, commodity roadmaps, and sourcing policies

- Owning overall commercial accountability and financial performance for direct procurement spend

- Conducting rigorous stakeholder, market, and supply chain risk analyses to safeguard against single-source bottlenecks and capacity shortfalls

- Partnering closely with peer leaders across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, Finance, Legal, and Logistics

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Business Administration, or Engineering

- 10+ years of direct procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or supplier commercial experience

- 3+ years of formal people leadership experience

- 3+ years of experience in automotive, battery energy storage systems, power electronics, industrial equipment, or high-volume manufacturing environments

Ford Energy offers a competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses, Ford vehicle discounts, and the opportunity to shape the energy strategy of one of the world's most iconic brands.

Benefits include:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Purchasing
- Business Administration
- Engineering
- Procurement
- Strategic Sourcing
- Category Management

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Supply Chain Management
- Should-cost modeling
- Total cost of ownership drivers
- Design-to-cost principles
- Capital budgeting
- Manufacturing cost structures

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