Senior Vehicle Planning & Strategy Program Manager

Ford Motor • Long Beach, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. The Senior Vehicle Planning & Strategy Program Manager will be responsible for integrating cross functional teams to develop the next generation of EV vehicles. You will be responsible for integrating teams to deliver compelling, feasible, and viable products. You will work with marketing, design, engineering, finance and manufacturing to develop the product concept, architecture, and financials into a compelling and compatible product.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or business or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience working on production vehicle development, from concept to launch
• 3+ years of experience in Program, Project or Product Management & Strategy, or as Design Engineer
• Customer Focused Vehicle Planning Program Management
• Strong collaboration skills to integrate vehicle cross-functional teams
• Strong program management and planning skills

Nice To Haves

• Results Driven in White Space and Fast Paced Environment
• Strong desire to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability and willingness to navigate in a “process-less” space and still achieve aspirational results.
• Customer-focused with an open mind to work differently from standard process and outside boundaries.
• Creative to find innovative/integrated solutions.
• Ability to work with all employee levels from technical personnel to senior management.
• Self-motivated and eager to take responsibility.
• Ability to deliver results with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Full PD Cycle Experience

Responsibilities

• Use your customer, engineering and business skills to integrate cross functional teams to deliver compelling, feasible and viable products.
• Lead and manage team setup, program assumptions, change control, communication, issues management, financial estimates, and industrialization plans.
• Lead teams to deliver on time and with quality, setting up schedule with cadence of key decisions, checkpoints, deliverables, etc.
• Plan the business case of the vehicle with finance, manufacturing, marketing, etc.
• Create and effectively deploy a more efficient product development process.

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