Supply Chain Manager - Tires

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Ford Supply Chain team is central to our ability to build great vehicles. As the manager for Tires, your team will be responsible for the sourcing of high‑quality components while driving cost, quality, and on‑time delivery. You’ll help shape a resilient supply chain so Ford can consistently deliver the vehicles our customers want.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 3-years leading a team and 8+ years of strategic buying or sourcing experience.

Nice To Haves

• An energetic leadership style with a strong commitment to building and developing a high performing team.
• A disciplined and process-oriented approach that establishes sustainable governance and routine rigor to drive measurable results.
• Ability to think and plan strategically at the big picture level, applying strong organizational acumen and market awareness to identify, prioritize, and sustain focus on the organization’s key objectives.
• Demonstrated expertise with purchasing systems, sourcing tools, and standard procurement procedures.
• Advanced negotiation capabilities with a proven track record of creating leverage in both offensive and defensive scenarios.
• Excellent persuasive written and verbal communication skills and be adept at producing proposals, reports, and plans that secure business leader commitment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Buyers to achieve program-level cost, quality, and material-efficiency targets across the full program lifecycle.
• Own the supplier relationship strategy for Tires, implementing a proactive engagement model to improve supplier performance, capture innovation, and mitigate commercial and operational risk.
• Define and execute long-term commodity strategies for tires that align with corporate objectives, secure sustainable supply, and maintain market competitiveness – including sourcing plans for future programs.
• Partner with cross functional strategic teams to assess supply base footprint, evaluate supplier financial health, track emerging technologies and market trends, and convert insights into actionable sourcing and risk mitigation plans.

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