Sr. Manager, EV Strategy & Operations

Ford • Long Beach, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Model E team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. Model e 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.

This role offers a unique chance to own the end-to-end lifecycle of Model e’s most critical strategic initiatives—from initial problem-solving to operational rollout. You will focus on scaling our retail charging strategy, moving it from a high-level vision to a high-performing market reality. As a leader of these strategic and operational workstreams, you will serve as a key partner to Model e senior leadership, ensuring our most ambitious goals are met with precision, speed, and measurable business impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in strategy demonstrating significant senior-level strategic leadership (or Master’s Degree and 7-10 years of experience).
• Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization.
• Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving complex problems.
• Deep business acumen and expertise about fundamentals of the automotive industry, particularly the EV market, charging ecosystem, competitive dynamics, trends, best practices, and company operations.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and challenging the status quo, being self-driven, and bringing creative solutions to lead the resolution of complex issues.
• Demonstrated expertise presenting to and influencing executive leaders including C-Suite.
• Love teaching, mentoring, and apprenticing colleagues and your team members.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior executive audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), Word (white papers).

Nice To Haves

• Previous roles within Strategy organizations or at Management Consulting firms in Manager, Senior Manager, or Director roles, with experience in the EV or energy sectors.
• Prior experience leading strategy projects and large-scale programs/projects at a global scale with cross-functional teams, specifically related to EV product launches or charging solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect Actionable Strategies: Rigorously frame and structure complex challenges to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for growth. You won't just define the "what," but will map out the "how," guiding workstream leaders to ensure every strategic project has a clear path to commercial execution.
• Drive Breakthrough Solutions: Design and lead problem-solving engines for Model e’s most critical hurdles, particularly in EV adoption and charging infrastructure. You will unlock organizational bottlenecks, resource teams for maximum impact, and ensure that strategic solutions are scalable and sustainable.
• Convert Insights into Competitive Advantage: Oversee the development of a robust, data-driven fact base that moves beyond "interesting" data to "decisive" action. You will lead teams to leverage EV charging data and customer behavior trends to make high-stakes trade-offs that improve our market position.
• Deliver Measurable Outcomes: Lead teams in translating complex analysis into tangible business results. You will be accountable for moving our retail charging strategy from a recommendation to a phased roadmap with clear KPIs, ensuring that strategic intent results in a superior customer experience and business growth.
• Mobilize the Organization: Confidently lead strategic dialogues and challenge the status quo to accelerate decision-making. You will act as a catalyst for change, securing deep commitment (not just buy-in) from C-suite executives and cross-functional partners to ensure the enterprise is aligned for rapid execution.
• Build an Outcome-Oriented Culture: Act as a strategic leader and developer of talent, building high-performing teams that are obsessed with impact. You will foster a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and accountability, driving organizational change by modeling the Ford+ behaviors and delivering on our transformation goals.

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: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees