Global Supply Chain Manager

Ford Motor Company • Long Beach, CA

6h • $109,100 - $239,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

The global supply chain behind UEV must be as innovative as the platform itself. As Global Supply Manager, you’ll own the end-to-end sourcing strategy for critical vehicle spend. You’ll partner with engineering from concept through launch, using first-principles decision-making to deliver breakthrough outcomes. You will lead global supplier negotiations and structure commercial agreements that protect program timing without sacrificing cost leverage. You’ll also play a central role in one of the most complex challenges facing the industry today: designing a supply chain that is resilient to geopolitical risk and compliant with a rapidly evolving global trade and tariff environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain management or commodity management.
• Experience bringing creative negotiation skills and out-of-the-box strategy.
• Strong relationship management skills with internal and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related field, or MBA.
• Hands-on experience building and launching highly effective supply chains.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team.
• A systems approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement.
• Eagerness to expand into new commodity areas as the ADVEV portfolio grows.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sourcing strategy for critical spend areas across the UEV platform and follow-on advanced EV programs from sourcing strategy development through SOP, including supplier selection, contracting, and ongoing cost, quality, and delivery performance.
• Partner with engineering from concept through launch to align sourcing strategy with technical roadmaps, design freeze milestones, and prototype-to-production transitions. Structure commercial agreements that protect program timing without ceding cost leverage.
• Build first-principles should-cost models with cross-functional teams to drive a ground-up, physics-based part and system cost perspective. Use these models to set negotiation positions, evaluate quote submissions, and challenge supplier pricing line by line.
• Lead make-vs-buy analysis to ensure we have a best-in-class supply chain that delivers optimal value.
• Develop the supply base for resilience. Identify and qualify Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners across geographies; build dual-source and regional capacity strategies that address raw material scarcity, geopolitical risk, and an evolving global trade and tariff environment.
• Drive automation across the supply chain to deliver best-in-class supply chain efficiency. Partner with suppliers to identify opportunities for process automation and robotics.
• Shape the tools and processes the ADVEV supply chain runs on, including should-cost methodology, supplier and agreement management systems, and AI-enabled analytics that scale how Ford evaluates suppliers, parts, and agreements.

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 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: Manager