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.