Senior Supply Chain Manager, Exteriors

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Supply Chain organization builds strategic supplier partnerships to deliver world-class quality, cost, delivery, sustainability, and innovation in support of our customers and business objectives. The Supply Chain function is transforming to support Ford’s long-term success and the Ford+ Plan. The Senior Supply Chain Manager, Exteriors will lead strategic change across a global supply network, strengthen supplier partnerships, develop talent, and drive business results through operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, sourcing, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of leadership experience, including leading teams and driving organizational transformation.
• Proven experience developing and executing global sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Strong expertise in supplier management, negotiations, cost optimization, and end-to-end supply chain operations.
• Demonstrated ability to use data, market intelligence, and financial insights to drive business decisions.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to navigate complex, global, matrixed organizations.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, simplify complex challenges, and implement innovative solutions.
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, sourcing, or related discipline within a global manufacturing environment.
• 7+ years of leadership experience, including leading teams and developing talent.
• Automotive industry experience, particularly within exterior systems or related commodities such as glass, injection molding, or similar manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading commodity strategies, supplier transformation, resiliency planning, and total cost of ownership initiatives.
• Demonstrated success driving organizational change and building high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute long-term sourcing strategies for the Exteriors commodity portfolio.
• Align sourcing decisions with technology roadmaps, sustainability objectives, and cost competitiveness goals.
• Maintain sourcing and material cost roadmaps, value maps, and opportunity funnels to support business objectives.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with key global suppliers.
• Establish performance expectations and drive improvements across quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability metrics.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate supply chain risks, including material constraints, geopolitical disruptions, and capacity limitations.
• Ensure supplier capacity supports future production and business requirements.
• Drive best-in-class sourcing practices through cost modeling, benchmarking, market intelligence, competitive bidding, and data-driven decision making.
• Lead commercial negotiations and total cost of ownership initiatives.
• Partner with engineering on Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) activities to optimize design-to-cost outcomes.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing supply chain team.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, agility, and continuous improvement.
• Build organizational capability and strengthen the leadership pipeline.
• Partner with Product Development, Manufacturing, Finance, and other stakeholders to align supply chain strategies with enterprise objectives.
• Influence decisions across a global, matrixed organization.

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