# Project Manager: Governance & Metrics

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The I-ERP Program at Ford Motor Company is seeking an organized, analytical Project Manager to join the Program Management Office and execute the governance support, metrics, solution planning, and cross-program coordination that keep our enterprise resource planning transformation on track.

The successful candidate will own day-to-day PMO execution, supporting the governance forums, keeping program metrics accurate and current, supporting solution and release planning, tracking dependencies across the I-ERP program and adjacent initiatives, and managing the program CRAID log.

**Responsibilities**

### Governance Execution (Support)

- Prepare for Global, Combined, and Regional L2 meetings, including scheduling, pre-reads, materials, and attendee coordination.

- Capture decisions, actions, and owners during each forum, publish minutes, and track follow-ups to closure.

- Support the build of executive-ready governance materials, turning complex program information into clear insights and asks.

- Support Combined L2 sessions with partner and adjacent programs.

- Prepare regional inputs for Regional L2 meetings.

- Maintain governance calendars, charters, and RACI documentation.

### Program Metrics & Reporting

- Collect, validate, and publish program-level metrics and KPIs covering progress, quality, and delivery health.

- Work with PDO teams to ensure metrics are accurately and consistently defined and updated on time.

- Run data quality checks, reconcile discrepancies, and escalate metric issues.

- Analyze trends, identify areas of concern early, and prepare concise insights and recommendations.

- Collaborate with the PMO tools team on data needs and enhancements.

### Solution Planning Support

- Support solution planning by consolidating scope, milestones, capacity, and readiness inputs from workstreams and PDO teams.

- Partner with Release Management Managers to maintain integrated plans and schedules.

- Support forecasting of program and release performance.

- Help develop and track recovery plans when gaps or delays appear.

- Track solution planning decisions and changes.

### Cross-Program Dependency Management

- Identify, document, and track cross-program dependencies impacting the I-ERP program and adjacent initiatives.

- Build and maintain I-ERP cross-program dependency log and views.

- Facilitate dependency working sessions with program leads.

- Escalate unresolved or at-risk dependencies to the PMO Manager and governance forums.

### CRAID Management & PMO Process Support

- Manage the program CRAID log, ensuring every program-level item is logged, has a clear owner and due date, and is kept current.

- Drive discipline in CRAID management and governance.

- Review the CRAID log regularly for completeness, quality, and accuracy.

- Support adoption of PMO standards, templates, and governance processes.

- Identify process gaps and improvement opportunities.

**Qualifications**

### Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field.

- 4+ years of experience in project/program management or PMO roles.

- Experience supporting executive-level governance forums.

- Experience defining, collecting, and reporting program metrics and KPIs.

- Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence.

- Understanding of program delivery frameworks and experience managing CRAID/RAID registers.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

### Preferred Qualifications

- PMP, CAPM, PgMP, SAFe, or a similar project/program management certification.

- Experience with SAP, Oracle, or other major ERP platforms.

- Experience in a global, matrixed organization.

- Experience with solution planning in an enterprise or hybrid agile environment.

- Familiarity with Jira Align or similar enterprise agile planning tools.

- A technical foundation with SQL and query building experience.

**Benefits**

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays

**Salary**

- Salary grade 8: $99,100-$166,200

## Skills

### Required
- Jira
- Confluence
- Project Management
- Governance
- Metrics
- Solution Planning
- Dependency Management
- CRAID Management
- Communication
- Analytical skills

### Nice to have
- PMP
- CAPM
- PgMP
- SAFe
- SAP
- Oracle
- SQL
- Jira Align

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