# Staff Vehicle Planning & Strategy Program Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,200-$283,500
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future.

The Staff Planning & Strategy Program Manager will be responsible for integrating cross-functional teams to develop the next generation of EV vehicles.

## Responsibilities

- Use your customer, engineering, and business skills to integrate cross-functional teams to deliver compelling, feasible, and viable products.

- Lead and manage team setup, program assumptions, change control, communication, issues management, financial estimates, and industrialization plans.

- Lead teams to deliver on time and with quality, setting up schedules with key decision cadences, checkpoints, deliverables, etc.

- Plan the business case of the vehicle with finance, manufacturing, marketing, etc.

- Create and effectively deploy a more efficient product development process.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 5+ years of experience working on production vehicle development, from concept to launch.

- 3+ years of experience in Program, Project, or Product Management & Strategy, or as a Design Engineer.

- Customer-Focused Vehicle Planning Program Management.

- Strong collaboration skills to integrate vehicle cross-functional teams.

- Strong program management and planning skills.

## Benefits

- 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
- Product Management
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Vehicle Planning
- Engineering
- Business

### Nice to have
- Results Driven
- Fast-Paced Environment
- Customer Focus
- Innovative Solutions
- Communication Skills

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