Strategy Manager

Ford • Allen Park, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Ford Racing Strategy Manager will be the go-to thought partner to help deliver the Ford Racing Strategy via building necessary capabilities spanning the business. They will be an influence-first leader who is able to collaborate and work with stakeholders within and beyond Ford Racing. This role will be an individual contributor working on a small, agile, high-performance team.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• Strong interest in motorsports and performance vehicles, a deep passion for all things auto
• A leader within Ford with demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in problem solving
• A comfort with ambiguity and a desire to build (organizations, develop people, etc.)
• 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 problems
• Understand the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must
• Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues
• Love teaching and mentoring colleagues
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), Word (white papers) is a must

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree or MBA from a top institution
• Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects
• Prior experience in a professional services firm is a plus but not required
• Technical background with advanced analytics

Responsibilities

• Hypotheses generation: Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire problem in the assigned work stream(s), working with strategy leadership, general management of the business and/or stakeholders
• Structuring and solving the problem: Determine most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems, taking advantage of the organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections. This includes leveraging one’s networks of deep expertise
• Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team (either directly or indirectly) in applying leading edge techniques; Ensures team develops robust fact base, creatively addressing data constraints as appropriate. Always tests first principles of business
• Synthesis and generating recommendations: Develop compelling insights from complex analysis. Synthesize complex analysis with an ability to draw out and prioritize key conclusions and independently develop sound recommendations
• Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written. A comfort writing and delivery persuasive recommendations to the Ford Performance leadership and the Steering Team is critical
• Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a ‘player-coach’ that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables (when possible); Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise

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