Director, HR Business Partner

Ford • Dearborn, MI

1d • $141,700 - $268,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

As part of Ford's Human Resources team, you'll help attract, hire, and retain top talent. This role is crucial in defining, developing, and maintaining a winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to collaborate and achieve ambitious goals. We are looking for change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates, and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to perform at their best. Ford is a company where we build a better world together, and we are seeking individuals ready to change the way the world moves.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree or 10 years with a Bachelor's degree, preferably in Human Resources or a related field.
• Willingness to work in person at Ford's Dearborn, MI headquarters at least four days per week.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Nice To Haves

• A proven track record of strong HR Business Partnership with experience in organizational design, talent management, succession, leadership development, and leading transformation.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including direct management, coaching, development, and deployment of Human Resources team members.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly build business and technical acumen, understand operational and financial drivers, and translate business challenges into an integrated people strategy.
• Experience establishing trust and credibility quickly with leaders and stakeholders at all levels.
• The ability to influence, challenge, and partner effectively across large and complex organizations.
• Experience leveraging workforce data, quantitative analysis, and compelling data stories to influence senior-leader decisions and improve business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead calmly and decisively through ambiguity, organizational change, competing priorities, and high-stakes people decisions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the HR Business Partner team, leading the talent strategy and HR delivery for the Vehicle Hardware Engineering & Racing team.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the organization's senior leadership team, providing an independent perspective and shaping decisions on organization, leadership talent, workforce capability, and change.
• Partner across the company to translate business objectives into an integrated, multi-year talent strategy and drive effective execution.
• Strengthen the leadership and talent pipeline, improve organizational effectiveness, build critical workforce capabilities, and enable significant business and organizational transformation.
• Influence and lead the execution of the multi-year talent strategy, aligning talent, organization, culture, and workforce priorities with business objectives.
• Anticipate organizational, workforce, succession, and capability risks; develop recommendations and guide leaders through complex tradeoffs and high-stakes people decisions.
• Lead organizational design and effectiveness initiatives, implementing structures, roles, governance, and ways of working to improve performance with minimal disruption.
• Lead large-scale change management planning and execution impacting thousands of employees.
• Translate company-wide objectives and initiatives into tailored strategies for the organization, technical leaders, and employees.
• Own the organization's integrated talent and workforce agenda, including strategic workforce planning, talent acquisition and integration, performance and rewards, succession, leadership development, employee engagement, and retention.
• Utilize workforce data, external insights, quantitative analysis, and business measures to identify risks, shape recommendations, influence decisions, and evaluate the impact of people and organization strategies.
• Collaborate with HR centers of expertise and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable solutions and measurable business value.
• Establish priorities, measures, and operating rhythms to create accountability for execution and demonstrate progress against the talent strategy.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of HR Business Partners, strengthening strategic HR capability and ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery.

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
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, 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
• 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: Director