Description
We are seeking a digital native to champion a customer-centered Delivery and Onboard/Setup experience across both digital and retail (Dealerships) that drives efficiency and value for the customer, dealer, and company.
The successful candidate will be knowledgeable of our dealer business at retail, comfortable operating in ambiguity and be able to influence across teams. The individual is directly responsible for maintaining the operating rhythm of and refining the strategic north star for the Delivery Day Tool (DDT) and its role in the Delivery and Onboarding/Setup experience.
As the Lead for the Delivery Day Tool (DDT), you will drive the strategic 'north star' and operational rhythm for a critical phase of the customer journey: the Delivery and Onboarding/Setup experience. In this role, you will own the objectives and KPIs that define success, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including experience design, product, content, and platform,to bring a seamless, world-class onboarding experience to life.
Although this is classified as a remote position, candidates who are within commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. We also prefer candidates who reside in the eastern time zone.
Responsibilities:
- Directly responsible for creating the north star vision, dealer & customer journey and enablers, for what awesome looks like for Delivery and onboarding/setup with DDT for Ford, Lincoln US & Canada.
- Partner with Dealer Operations to gather insights from dealers to represent voice of dealer in future roadmap
- Be subject matter expert through GEMBA and pulling together key data to identify customer and dealer pain points to turn insights into to product enhancements by driving the right resources to deliver DDT roadmap.
- Work cross-organizationally for key experiences in DDT that support Integrated Services, Ford App, Modem Activation, Preferred Dealer, and FCSD
- Comfortable interpreting and sharing data from dealer and customer feedback, and engineer quality – including QNPS, OneCX, etc.
- Partner closely with product owners, Engineering, and UX to drive the delivery of an innovative, compelling, and user-friendly experience to our dealers in support of our customers.
- Drives cross team execution including training
- Owns POV on what the right content strategy is and working with the marketing communications/content team to bring that POV to life
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree or a combination of relevant education and experience
- 5+ years of experience with dealer operations and/or dealer education with a passion for delivering great customer experience and an ability to empathize with our consumers
- 3+ years of experience working in a matrixed team structure and influencing across product areas
- 3+ years of experience delivering OKRs by tracking, optimizing and pivoting against those OKRs
- 2+ years of digital or physical retail experience.
- 2+ years of critical thinking skills and proven application of Human Centered Design methods with the ability to develop and usher strategy through various phases development using human centered design (including implementation).
- Additional skills to include:
- The ability to mine third party research, customer feedback and internal analytics
- Experience with orchestrating data across multiple sources to create a unique user experience
- Self-starter; ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment
- Strong oral and written communications (able to effectively assert point of view)
- Ability to tell customer stories through clear, compelling, and concise Journey/presentation
Even better, you may have:
- MBA or Master’s Degree
- Broad experience with channels that impact a customer’s experience including Ford App, Dealer, Websites, CRC, Service, Distribution, HMI, etc.
- Broad experience with channels that drive the dealer experience including WBDO, Smart Vincent, Allocation & Distribution, FMC Dealer, RE&T, Vehicle Visibility, SAMS, IA Online, etc.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500- 218,100.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here:
https://fordcareers.co/LL6
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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