Senior Manager of Business Operations, Ford Energy
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Business Operations, Ford Energy will serve as a people leader and the primary connective force driving Ford Energy's stand-up as an independent business unit. Reporting to the Director, Business Operations, Ford Energy, this person will lead and develop a team of business operations professionals while personally owning the alignment between Business Integration and Systems Integration workstreams — ensuring business process design, operational structure, and technology implementation move forward as one coordinated effort. This role carries direct accountability for execution outcomes across the business, not just process design: setting team priorities, removing roadblocks, holding workstreams accountable to milestones, and representing Business Operations in senior cross-functional forums. This is a foundational leadership role with significant opportunity to grow in scope and influence as Ford Energy scales.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in business operations, business process improvement, program/project management, management consulting, or a similar role, including experience leading or managing people.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing business processes across multiple functions, with accountability for execution and outcomes.
- Experience working with corporate functions such as finance, HR, legal, IT, or supply chain.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop a team.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to connect, align, and influence diverse teams and senior leaders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
- High ownership mindset with strong follow-through and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, priorities, and direct reports simultaneously.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting new business stand-ups, carve-outs, spin-offs, or joint ventures.
- Experience partnering with systems integration or IT teams on ERP or other core system implementations.
- Management consulting background with a focus on process design or operating model development.
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Lean/Six Sigma or process excellence certification.
- Experience in a large, complex corporate or manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a team of business operations professionals; set clear priorities, provide coaching and performance feedback, and create a high-accountability team culture.
- Act as the connective tissue between Business Integration and Systems Integration teams, ensuring business process design directly informs system requirements and system implementation supports business readiness — resolving misalignment before it becomes risk.
- Drive execution of business process design, implementation, and governance workstreams end to end, holding cross-functional teams and own team accountable for milestones, dependencies, and decisions.
- Partner with stakeholders across finance, HR, legal, supply chain, IT, and other functions to map current-state processes and design and implement the future-state, end-to-end business processes Ford Energy needs to operate as a standalone business.
- Define and stand up the operational structures, decision rights, and governance forums needed for Ford Energy to run independently.
- Own coordination of integration points between Ford Energy and Ford's broader corporate functions, ensuring new processes align with policy, controls, and reporting needs.
- Lead the rollout of new processes, including documentation, stakeholder communication, training, and readiness activities.
- Own tracking of stand-up workstreams, risks, issues, and decisions; deliver clear, concise, and influential updates to senior leadership.
- Build and leverage strong relationships across a broad set of business partners and senior stakeholders to keep work moving, resolve roadblocks quickly, and drive decisions in ambiguous or contested situations.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
