What success looks like
An integrated roadmap with clear milestone ownership and visible cross-team dependencies.
Timely resolution of integration issues and decisions, with risks and mitigation actions understood by stakeholders.
Coordinated delivery that protects end-to-end data flows and supports business process readiness.
A team operating with clear priorities, consistent governance, and shared accountability for outcomes.
Own the integrated delivery roadmap: Translate Transformation business objectives into milestones, workstreams, sequencing, and delivery commitments across Product Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and IT. Align scope and capacity with program priorities.
Lead technical integration and systems thinking: Partner with architecture and engineering leads to assess system interfaces, technical hand-offs, and end-to-end data flows. Ensure changes account for downstream impacts and preserve a connected data framework.
Drive dependency and readiness management: Establish ownership for cross-team dependencies, track integration readiness, and resolve gaps before they disrupt program milestones. Coordinate validation and release planning with delivery teams.
Lead Agile planning and execution: Guide sprint and Program Increment (PI) planning across teams, ensuring feature-level dependencies, backlog priorities, and capacity assumptions align with the integration roadmap.
Resolve issues and retire risks: Lead structured reviews of cross-functional technical roadblocks, root causes, and mitigation options. Assign accountable owners, drive containment and resolution, and escalate decisions with clear impacts and recommendations.
Enable timely cross-functional decisions: Set decision-focused meeting agendas and bring engineering, business, architecture, finance, and strategy partners together to evaluate scope, schedule, cost, and technical trade-offs. Document decisions and follow through on commitments.
Develop operating model to provide transparent program governance: Establish a consistent operating cadence and communicate delivery status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to program leadership. Use Jira and dashboards to make progress and blockers visible.
Lead and develop the team: Set clear expectations for TPMs and integration analysts, coach technical problem solving and stakeholder communication, and foster ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Coordinate partner commitments: Align internal teams and, where applicable, external technology partners on deliverables, integration requirements, and milestone readiness.
Lead change adoption: Partner with business process owners to document future-state workflows, prepare teams for new ways of working, and ensure technical delivery supports vehicle program and plant adoption.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Demonstrated 5+ experience leading complex technical programs or enterprise transformations across multiple teams, locations, and timelines.
Experience leading cross-functional delivery, establishing accountability, influencing without direct authority, and coaching technical program professionals.
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and integrated enterprise systems, including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
Ability to evaluate technical dependencies, data flows, integration risks, and downstream impacts across Product Development, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing.
Hands-on experience with Agile delivery, PI planning, and Jira-based backlog and dependency management.
Proven ability to turn complex technical issues into actionable options, drive decisions, and communicate concise program updates to senior leadership.
Analytical rigor in root-cause analysis, risk management, and delivery planning, with a commitment to transparency, speed, technical excellence, and Ford+ behaviors.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading Industrial System or automotive Product Development, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing IT transformation programs.
Experience with enterprise platforms such as 3DX (Dassault Systèmes), SAP, or MMP.
Background in software development, systems engineering, data engineering, or enterprise architecture.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, Master Data Management (MDM), and migration of legacy data to modern platforms.
Experience using Power BI or Tableau for program dashboards, and Confluence for technical documentation and decision records.
Experience managing program budgets, resource plans, or external technology partner commitments.
Experience leading organizational change, future-state process mapping, and adoption of new delivery practices.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
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, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day
- This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.
- Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
- Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.
- For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Domestic relocation is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.
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