Strategy and Finance Product Manager

Ford Motor - Dearborn, MI

Hybrid - Dearborn, MI

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The EPEO Strategy, Financial & Supplier Management department serves a central role within EPEO whose focus is to orchestrate EPEO-wide strategic initiatives, provide financial business intelligence and drive financial operational improvements. The team is accountable for administering EPEO's multi-year sourcing strategies, overseeing EPEO's global budget and providing costs transparency to the rest of the Ford Enterprise on their infrastructure consumption costs. EPEO's Sourcing Strategy is an initiative to transform and invest in its technology talent to accelerate Ford's transformation into a software focused (products and platform), customer-obsessed company and to effectively structure its services and products to meet availability, reliability, and performance goals while reducing risk, technical debt and improving overall cost profile. The EPEO (Enterprise Platform & Engineering Operations) Strategy & Finance Product Manager position will oversee sourcing strategy initiatives, drive opportunities to streamline and automate financial management processes and assist with implementing cost transparency efforts.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain Jira projects, including the creation of critical milestone plans, program dashboards and proactively manage issues and risks
• Coordinate with regional business office teams to gather sourcing updates and perform analyses to identify gaps to objectives
• Oversee sourcing change requests and coordinate management approvals
• Create monthly status reports, update monthly Bowler metrics, and facilitate governance meetings as required
• Collaborate with Service Owners, Finance and ET Business Office teams to identify opportunities to drive process simplification and automation within financial operations
• Partner with Supply Chain teams to identify supplier rationalization opportunities
• Assist Cost Transparency team with implementation plans as required
• Coordinate ad-hoc assignments driven by the ET Business Office