# Nomenclature Strategic Business Advisor

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,500-$218,100
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

This newly created role reports to the Global Head of Nomenclature and supports Ford’s Global Center of Excellence for Naming. As a Nomenclature Strategic Business Advisor, you serve as the critical bridge between nomenclature planning and design. You will capture product and service visions and translate them into clear, actionable direction, helping guide Namers to deliver distinctive, ownable, and aligned naming and taxonomy solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Intelligence Gathering and Solutions Setup:

- Synthesize product/service concepts, automotive marketplace insights, competitive data, and financial inputs into clear solution outlines and creative pathways.

- Translate high-level product/service/experience concepts and commercial strategies into clear nomenclature solution briefs and consulting POVs.

- Challenge assumptions and push planners and designers toward best-in-class nomenclature solutions.

- Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration & Execution Alignment:

- Lead intake examinations and project discovery sprints to maintain execution momentum.

- Ensure alignment across product marketing and key related departments on critical project stage gates and milestones.

- Act as the primary integrator across functions to ensure nomenclature solutions are sound, cohesive, and attainable.

- Governance & Communication:

- Help consolidate and shape inputs into clear presentation decks and materials for leadership reviews.

- Ensure consistency, quality, and clarity of nomenclature solution narratives.

- Partner closely with Ford Legal throughout the trademark screening and clearance process.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or related field.

- 6+ years of experience in Creative Management, Innovation planning, Product Strategy, Program Management, or related areas.

- Exceptional writing and presentation skills.

- Strong ability to lead without direct authority in a matrix organization.

- Excellent analytical, decision-making, and communication skills.

- Proven experience driving cross-functional alignment and integration.

- Familiarity with legal/IP constructs, brand architecture, portfolio strategy, and naming systems.

Benefits:

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

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare, 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.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Business
- Engineering
- Marketing
- Creative Management
- Innovation planning
- Product Strategy
- Program Management

### Nice to have
- Automotive/mobility experience

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