Director, Enterprise Technology Strategy

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The role will shape how Ford's Enterprise Technology (ET) organization plans, sources, and deploys global technology talent. It leads the vision, implementation, and ongoing optimization of ET's demand-planning process and global workforce, influencing delivery of Ford's product and technology roadmap. The position owns tracking, monitoring, and reporting ET's operational health and drives improvements in efficiency and resource allocation. It also architects and runs ET's workforce operating system across employees, contingent labor, managed-service providers, and emerging talent pipelines, with a focus on compliance, cost optimization, and strategic fit.

The role develops workforce plans and operating budgets, governs headcount and labor costs, optimizes contingent labor and managed-service arrangements, and guides immigration and global mobility processes. It advises ET leaders and cross-functional partners, leads a global team of workforce-planning, sourcing, and analytics professionals, and owns the roadmap for workforce analytics and planning tools.

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

• 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 at all leadership levels.
• Ability to influence and engage diverse stakeholders to achieve common goals and drive results.
• Strong project-management and planning skills, ensuring strategic initiatives are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard.
• Ability to apply agile principles and manage change in a dynamic organizational context.
• Excellent consulting, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Track record of 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 (H-1B, 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 global span-and-layer analysis for ET and recommend and execute redeployment or realignment actions to simplify structure and improve managerial effectiveness.
• Evaluate build, borrow, or buy workforce decisions based on strategic value, risk, and cost.
• Maintain 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 year-over-year productivity commitments.
• Establish governance for H-1B and global work authorization, 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 run 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, and maintain accurate forecasts of resource needs.
• Develop and manage ET operational plans and budgets aligned with strategic goals.
• Identify and manage risks and opportunities related to ET demand and capacity.
• 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.
• Build and maintain relationships across the organization and communicate effectively with diverse audiences.
• Own the roadmap for workforce analytics and planning tools, including HRIS, vendor-management systems, and BI platforms; ensure data integrity, AI-enabled insights, and end-to-end process automation.
• Develop and maintain tools and dashboards for tracking and reporting 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.
• 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