Corporate Systems Project Manager, Ford Energy

Ford Motor•Dearborn, MI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Project Manager, Corporate Systems & Business Platforms, will serve as an individual-contributor partner to the Head of Corporate Systems & Business Platforms. This role will help coordinate and drive systems, processes, and initiatives outside of 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. The Project Manager will act as 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.

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.