Senior Specialist, Strategic Deployment & Transformation Roadmap

Ford • Dearborn, MI

1d • $65,100 - $166,200 • 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