Corporate Systems Project Manager, Ford Energy

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

2d • $86,600 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Project Manager, Corporate Systems & Business Platforms, you will serve as an individual-contributor partner to the Head of Corporate Systems & Business Platforms, helping coordinate and drive the systems, processes, and initiatives that fall outside the core SAP and Salesforce delivery teams. It is a hands-on coordination and execution role for someone who thrives on influence without authority and getting things done across a fast-scaling, matrixed organization. You will be the connective tissue of the organization: turning ambiguity into scoped plans, driving cross-functional issues to closure, and ensuring decisions and commitments made by leadership are never dropped.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years in program/project coordination, software engineer, or a similar cross-functional individual-contributor role within a complex, matrixed organization (commensurate with GSR 7–8 level).
• Working knowledge of ERP (SAP preferred) and CRM (Salesforce preferred) environments, including how master data, integrations, and governance decisions affect the business.
• Demonstrated ability to stand up structure — scope, plans, stakeholders, and cadence — for ambiguous, undefined initiatives.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across teams and represent the leader’s priorities without direct authority.
• Proven track record of tracking issues, decisions, and action items to closure in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on experience maintaining RAID logs, steering committee materials, and portfolio reporting.
• A trusted individual contributor who can act as an extension of leadership — detail-oriented, highly organized, and comfortable holding others accountable on the leader’s behalf without having direct authority or people-management responsibility.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing or standing up governance processes (data ownership, master data governance, architecture review) from scratch.
• Comfort building process and structure from scratch within a larger corporate parent.
• Familiarity with manufacturing, energy, or other complex operational environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake and stand-up of new, undefined initiatives before they have an owner, a plan, or a process — including new reporting requirements, governance processes that don’t yet exist, architecture gaps identified by the Enterprise Architecture team, data ownership questions, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Define scope: Frame problem statements, objectives, and boundaries for newly identified needs.
• Identify stakeholders: Determine who needs to be at the table and bring them in.
• Create plans: Build lightweight project plans, timelines, and success criteria.
• Drive meetings: Run working sessions and keep initiatives moving between check-ins.
• Escalate issues: Surface blockers and risks to leadership before they become fire drills.
• Act as the safety net for commitments made in leadership forums — including action items from leadership discussions, decisions from workshops, cross-functional risks, and dependency management.
• Make sure things don’t get dropped: Track open items to closure, chase owners, and report status back to leadership.
• Maintain the operating rhythm and visibility tools that keep the organization’s leader and stakeholders informed — including the RAID log, status updates, steering committee materials, and portfolio visibility.

Benefits

• performance-based bonuses
• Ford vehicle discounts
• 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: Mid Level