Director, Enterprise Technology Strategy

Ford • Dearborn, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Global Senior Director of Demand Management, Workforce Strategy & Sourcing will shape how Ford's Enterprise Technology (ET) organization plans, sources and deploys its global technology talent. The role drives the vision, implementation and ongoing optimization of ET's demand planning process and global workforce, influencing how Ford delivers its product and technology roadmap.

The position owns tracking, monitoring and reporting ET's operational health and driving improvements in efficiency and resource allocation. It architects and operates ET's workforce system across employees, contingent labor, managed-service providers and emerging talent pipelines, with a focus on compliance, cost optimization and strategic fit. The role also leads demand management, headcount and cost governance, workforce analytics, location strategy, global mobility compliance, and talent redeployment.

As a strategic advisor to ET Officers and partners across HR, Finance, Purchasing, Legal and Ford Business Solutions, the role leads and develops a globally distributed team of workforce planning, sourcing and analytics professionals. It owns the roadmap for workforce analytics and planning tools, ensuring data integrity, AI-enabled insights and process automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in large, global IT organizations, including 5+ years leading workforce planning, demand management or technology sourcing functions.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers and globally distributed teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale labor budgets and contingent workforce or managed-service programs.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to lead, build and develop high-performing teams in a collaborative, results-oriented environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including presenting complex information to diverse audiences and leadership levels.
• Proven ability to influence and engage diverse stakeholders to achieve common goals and results.
• Strong project management and planning skills, delivering strategic initiatives on time, within budget and to a high standard of quality.
• Ability to apply agile principles and manage change in a dynamic organizational context.
• Excellent consulting, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Track record leading enterprise-scale transformation, such as operating-model redesign, workforce restructuring or vendor consolidation.
• Deep understanding of global technology organizations, operating models, and the IT services and labor-market landscape.
• Ability to structure and visualize complex problems and translate data into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
• Advanced proficiency in workforce analytics, financial modeling and forecasting.
• Working knowledge of U.S. immigration, including H-1B and PERM, and global mobility requirements.
• Understanding of how AI and automation are reshaping technology roles, skills and workforce mix.
• Experience developing location strategy or global capability centers.

Responsibilities

• Build a multi-year rolling workforce plan aligned with Ford's product and technology roadmaps, financial targets and location strategy.
• Lead ET global span-and-layer analysis and recommend and execute redeployment or realignment actions to simplify structure and improve managerial effectiveness.
• Evaluate build, borrow and buy decisions for work performed by Ford employees, contingent labor or external consultants, considering strategic value, risk and cost.
• Own the source of truth for ET headcount, labor cost and open requisitions, and publish monthly dashboards to ET leadership and Finance.
• Drive zero-based labor budgeting cycles and provide trade-offs and mitigation options to meet quarterly EBIT objectives.
• Set the global contingent-labor strategy, including vendor segmentation, rate-card management, performance scorecards and supplier-panel rationalization.
• Partner with Purchasing and Legal to negotiate master agreements and SLAs that protect intellectual property, support on-time delivery and achieve productivity commitments.
• Establish H-1B and global work-authorization governance, monitoring cap usage, adjudication timelines, compliance risk and cost impacts.
• Work with Global Mobility and outside counsel on visa renewals, PERM filings and country-to-country transfers while maintaining business continuity.
• Establish and operate an internal talent marketplace to redeploy under-utilized technologists to high-priority initiatives.
• Evaluate current and future workforce footprints across North America, EMEA, LATAM, APAC and India, and recommend location shifts based on skills, cost, risk and time-zone coverage.
• Lead ET's end-to-end demand management process from intake and prioritization through capacity planning, maintaining forecasts of resource needs.
• Develop and manage ET operational plans and budgets aligned with strategic goals, and identify and manage demand and capacity risks and opportunities.
• Advise ET Officers, HR, Finance, Purchasing, Legal and Ford Business Solutions on demand forecasting, planning processes and workforce matters.
• Lead, coach and develop a global team of workforce planning, sourcing and analytics professionals, fostering growth, high performance and collaboration.
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships and communicate effectively with diverse audiences, tailoring messages to their needs and interests.
• Own the roadmap for workforce analytics and planning tools, including HRIS, vendor management systems and BI platforms, ensuring data integrity, AI-enabled insights and end-to-end automation.
• Develop and maintain tools and dashboards to track and report performance and demand-planning metrics.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs and subsidized back-up child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• 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.
• 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: Director