Associate Director, Corporate Development

The Corporate Development team plays a central role in identifying and executing opportunities that accelerate Ford's strategic priorities.

As a Corporate Development Associate Director, you will help shape and Ford's strategic investment and partnership activity globally across all areas of the business.

You'll interact directly with Ford's Executive Leadership Team, external advisors, investors, and companies, serving as a trusted advisor throughout the transaction lifecycle,from opportunity identification and assessment through execution and implementation planning.

Responsibilities

• Shareholder Value Creation: Strengthen and leverage the shareholder value creation mind-set and model by systematically considering shareholder value implications in key decisions
• Execute corporate development agenda and improve corporate development operations
• Lead cross functional teams in the evaluation and execution of strategic investments and partnerships for Ford that fit into our broader strategy, including project management
• Lead due diligence efforts with target executive team, outside advisors, and internal subject matter experts
• Oversee development of detailed financial models and valuation analysis for transactions
• Actively contribute to the negotiation of transaction terms and legal documentation
• Create memorandums and related presentations for review by the Ford senior management team, including C-Level executives as well as Ford’s Board of Directors
• Maintain key advisor relationships to generate meaningful idea flow – macroeconomic advisers, management consultants, accounting firms and investment banks
• Actively participate in enhancing Corporate Development's information data sources, knowledge management repositories, and processes
• Develop and maintain strong industry and competitive knowledge

Ensure Ford becomes ‘risk intelligent’ by:

• Building risk management capabilities - adoption, implementation, business case development for mitigation/capitalization, visibility of magnitude and probability of key risks in corporate development investments and partnerships
• Augmenting our analyses through enmeshing “what-if” thinking into our assessments and informing and shaping scenario planning and contingency planning

Talent Development and Collaboration by contributing to:

• Ongoing development of team members
• Collaboration with skill teams and business units

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 5-7+ years of experience in Investment Banking, Transaction Advisory Services, strategic management consulting and/or Corporate Development activities
• 5-7+ years of experience exhibiting exceptional financial analytical 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