Manager, HR M&A and New Business Enablement

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

As part of our Human Resources team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible.

The Manager, HR M&A and New Business Enablement manages the portfolio governance, practice operations, methodology, and knowledge-management capabilities that enable Ford's HR M&A and New Business Enablement team to execute mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, legal entity formations, and new business standups.

Responsibilities

• Manage integrated portfolio planning, governance, reporting, and operating cadences across active mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, legal entity formations, and new business initiatives.
• Maintain portfolio-level project plans, governance calendars, milestones, risks, actions, issues, dependencies, decisions, and resource views; identify emerging concerns and coordinate timely escalation and follow-through.
• Create and maintain executive-ready dashboards, readiness scorecards, portfolio updates, and governance materials that provide leadership with clear visibility to progress, critical decisions, interdependencies, and areas requiring attention.
• Manage the team's shared methodologies, playbooks, templates, readiness frameworks, service agreement tools, governance standards, implementation toolkits, and common operating practices; ensure they remain practical, current, and reusable across initiatives.
• Ensure playbooks, trackers, decisions, governance materials, templates, and lessons learned are maintained in shared, accessible repositories that support continuity, reuse, and effective knowledge transfer across personnel and initiatives.
• Coordinate across Directors responsible for M&A, United States new business standups, and European joint ventures to improve information flow, execution consistency, cross-program alignment, workload visibility, and portfolio prioritization.
• Provide targeted program-management and implementation capacity to Director-led initiatives, including readiness assessments, workplan management, cross-functional coordination, testing and cutover support, training and change activities, and stabilization tracking.
• Analyze current- and future-state processes; facilitate requirements gathering, process mapping, workflow analysis, and operational design; and apply continuous-improvement methods to improve efficiency, scalability, control, and execution effectiveness.
• Support service agreement and vendor governance by maintaining service inventories, governance routines, deliverable and obligation trackers, performance measures, issue logs, and reusable standards for consultants, implementation partners, managed service providers, and other external providers.
• Represent HR M&A and New Business Enablement in designated governance forums, portfolio reviews, and cross-functional working sessions; communicate status, surface risks and dependencies, and coordinate follow-through while preserving substantive business and workforce decisions for the accountable leaders.
• Capture lessons learned and performance insights across the portfolio, identify recurring patterns and improvement opportunities, and incorporate findings into future methods, tools, readiness criteria, and team development priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Industrial Relations, Information Systems, Operations Management, Project Management, Finance, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in program management, PMO, business operations, business process improvement, organizational effectiveness, consulting, HR operations, transformation, or a related field.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, interdependencies, and executive-level visibility.
• Experience building and maintaining governance processes, integrated plans, dashboards, scorecards, executive updates, risk and decision logs, or portfolio reporting mechanisms.
• Experience creating repeatable methodologies, playbooks, templates, operating procedures, knowledge repositories, or implementation frameworks.
• Experience facilitating process improvement, requirements gathering, workflow analysis, process mapping, readiness assessment, or operational design activities.
• Experience supporting organizational change, technology implementations, service delivery transitions, operational readiness, or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, legal entity formations, business standups, or similarly complex initiatives (preferred).
• Experience working with external vendors, implementation partners, consultants, or managed service providers (preferred).
• Experience in manufacturing, energy, mobility, technology, defense, consulting, or other rapidly evolving business environments (preferred).

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.