Manager, Corporate Strategy

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

The Corporate Strategy team at Ford works on the most impactful strategic issues for the global Ford enterprise, focusing and prioritizing complex challenges facing the company, and defining the strategic choices that positively change the direction of the company in advancing its Ford+ objectives’. Our strategy managers are key workstream leads on our projects and are critical to the success of the deliverables.

Responsibilities

As a strategy manager on our team, you will:

• Generate hypotheses: Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire problem in the assigned work stream(s), working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders
• Structure and solve problems: Determine most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems, taking advantage of the strategy organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections
• Conduct analyses: Ensure high quality and accurate analysis; Select the most effective analytical approaches and guide the team in applying leading edge techniques; Ensure the team develops a robust fact base, creatively addressing data constraints
• Synthesize and generate recommendations: Develop compelling insights from complex analysis. Synthesize complex analysis with an ability to draw out and prioritize key conclusions and Independently develop sound recommendations
• Communicate effectively: Demonstrate strong influencing skills by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written
• Lead and mentor: Be a ‘player-coach’ that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables; Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; Practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise

Qualifications

• Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or related field
• Minimum 5-10 years of experience (or Master’s Degree and 3-5 yrs of experience)
• Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization
• Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems
• Understand the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must
• Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues
• Love teaching and mentoring colleagues
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

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