Sr. Manager, Strategy & Transformation - Lincoln

Ford • Detroit, MI

1d • $141,700 - $268,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Manager, Lincoln Strategy & Transformation, you will play a key leadership role developing and delivering Lincoln’s long-range strategy and building a strong business unit strategy team. This role offers a unique chance to own the end-to-end lifecycle of Lincoln’s most critical strategic initiatives — from initial problem-solving to operational rollout. You will focus on scaling key strategic priorities, moving them 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 senior leadership, ensuring our most ambitious goals are met with precision, speed, and measurable business impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of progressive professional experience
• Experience leading high-impact cross-functional projects at a global scale and working across multiple levels of an organization.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills, curiosity, and ability to structure complex business challenges into actionable recommendations.
• Business acumen and familiarity with industry fundamentals, including market dynamics, competitive dynamics, trends, best practices, and company operations.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, challenging the status quo, and bringing creative solutions to complex business issues.
• Experience presenting to and influencing executive leaders, including C-suite audiences.
• Interest or experience in teaching, mentoring, and developing colleagues or team members.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, including executive presentations, analytical modeling, and written strategy documents.
• Previous roles within Strategy organizations or at Management Consulting firms in Manager, Senior Manager, or Director roles.
• Prior experience leading strategy projects and large-scale programs/projects at a global scale with cross-functional teams, specifically related to product launches or new business solutions.
• Prior experience leading business development efforts including opportunity identification, pipeline management, and deal execution.
• Relevant certifications, where applicable.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree and 8+ years of progressive professional experience.
• Prior experience leading business development efforts including opportunity identification, pipeline management, and deal execution.

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 the business's most critical hurdles. 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 market 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 strategic priorities 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 senior 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