Business Operations Manager, Ford Energy

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this position, the Manager, Business Operations, Ford Energy will play a central role in standing up Ford Energy as an independent business unit. Reporting to the Director, Business Operations, Ford Energy, this person will connect teams and drive workstreams related to the design, implementation, and governance of the end-to-end business processes, operational structures, and corporate integrations required to establish Ford Energy as a competitive, standalone business. The role will partner closely with Ford Energy's systems integration team to ensure business process design and technology implementation move forward together. This is a foundational leadership role with significant opportunity to grow in scope as Ford Energy scales.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in business operations, business process improvement, program/project management, management consulting, or a similar role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and/or implementing business processes across multiple functions.
• Experience working with corporate functions such as finance, HR, legal, IT, or supply chain.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to connect and align diverse teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• High ownership mindset with strong follow-through and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting new business stand-ups, carve-outs, spin-offs, or joint ventures.
• Experience partnering with systems integration or IT teams on ERP or other core system implementations.
• Management consulting background with a focus on process design or operating model development.
• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Lean/Six Sigma or process excellence certification.
• Experience in a large, complex corporate or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders across finance, HR, legal, supply chain, IT, and other functions to map current-state processes and design the future-state, end-to-end business processes Ford Energy needs to operate as a standalone business.
• Connect teams and drive multiple concurrent workstreams tied to business process design, implementation, and governance, keeping milestones, dependencies, and ownership clear.
• Help define the operational structures, decision rights, and governance forums needed for Ford Energy to run independently.
• Coordinate integration points between Ford Energy and Ford's broader corporate functions, ensuring new processes align with policy, controls, and reporting needs.
• Work closely with the Systems Integration team so business process design informs system requirements and system implementation supports business readiness.
• Support the rollout of new processes, including documentation, stakeholder communication, training, and readiness activities.
• Track stand-up workstreams, risks, issues, and decisions; provide clear, concise updates to leadership.
• Build strong relationships across a broad set of business partners to keep work moving and quickly resolve roadblocks.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager