Senior Specialist, Strategic Deployment & Transformation Roadmap

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Specialist, Strategic Deployment & Transformation Roadmap is a highly strategic individual contributor responsible for driving the deployment plan and executive alignment for our Lean Product Development (LPD) business transformation. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role serves as a prime consultant to executive management. This individual will construct the overarching business case, orchestrate global stakeholder alignment, and lead pivotal conversations with Senior Leaders —translating complex transformation capabilities into compelling, data-driven executive narratives that secure leadership commitment and drive enterprise-wide adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate strategy, financial analysis, large-scale program management, or organizational design.
• Demonstrated courage and ability to tactfully challenge the status quo, overcome organizational inertia, and influence stakeholders at all levels to embrace new operational paradigms.
• Exceptional business presentation skills and a mastery of data-driven storytelling.
• Proven ability to confidently lead discussions, interface with senior executives, and distill highly complex, multi-dimensional program data and financial models into clear, actionable, and persuasive insights.
• Deep understanding of corporate finance principles, income statements, and enterprise strategy, with the ability to connect operational changes directly to bottom-line ROI and value realization.
• Highly resilient and capable of operating effectively in ambiguous environments.
• Proven ability to manage high-pressure situations and deliver rapid-turnaround executive requests without compromising quality or accuracy.
• Demonstrated capability to work independently, exercising significant latitude and ingenuity to determine the strategic approach for highly abstract and complex organizational challenges.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree is highly preferred.
• Proven experience playing a pivotal role in complex business transformation projects, ideally with a background spanning multiple industries, is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directly lead conversations and facilitate high-impact socialization sessions with Senior Leaders and global stakeholders.
• Proactively navigate organizational resistance, anticipate executive questions, and secure cross-functional commitment to the Lean PD approach prior to formal reviews.
• Govern the end-to-end executive filing process, coordinating and synthesizing complex content from across diverse technical and business teams into a cohesive narrative for C-suite and senior leadership reviews.
• Design and build premier executive-level presentations that effectively translate abstract technical capabilities and deployment bundles into clear demonstrations of alignment with the company's forward-looking strategy.
• Conduct comprehensive, advanced business case modeling that accurately reflects the potential ROI, cost savings, and revenue enablers of the transformation project.
• Continuously track and report transformation impacts against the corporate income statement, ensuring deployment roadmaps are strictly tied to financial targets and value realization metrics.
• Architect cohesive "strategic bundles" of capabilities, processes, and tools that enable the incremental and successful deployment of the Live Product Definition solution.
• Act as the central integration point across global regions, ensuring localized execution plans align with the overarching enterprise LPD deployment strategy.

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: Senior