Associate Director, Corporate Strategy
Associate Director, Corporate Strategy
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Job Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford were all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves
If you possess exceptional business acumen and the ability to see the forest AND the trees you can make the most of your unique insight and expertise as part of Fords Global Strategy team. We provide the thought leadership that helps advance Fords strategic objectives. We translate information into action as we apply indepth knowledge to enable timely decisions and responsible allocation of enterprise resources.
The Corporate Strategy team at Ford works on the most impactful strategic issues for the global Ford enterprise focusing and prioritizing complex challenges facing the company and defining the strategic choices that positively change the direction of the company in advancing its Ford objectives.
A diverse team (backgrounds approach and perspectives) structuring complex and ambiguous problems providing objective outsidein data driven recommendations. We aspire to foster a collegial environment that encourages outsidethebox thinking where employees can bring their best selves to work every day. Given the mission critical nature of our projects we encourage open dialogue based on an experience hierarchy where everyone is encouraged to pressure test perspectives backed by strong analytical and strategic thinking. We aspire to apply an apprenticeship model where you can solve some of the most complex issues while building a strong strategic toolkit in service of your career development and aspirations
Responsibilities
Our engagement managers are at the core of our projects and are critical to the success of the deliverables and growth of our team members.
- As an engagement manager on our team you will
- Lead and develop a team of diverse individuals and effectively leverage their expertise
- Project management: Lead the coordination of project engagements to organize resources and prioritize work to hit deliverables as a team in a timeconstrained environment
- Hypotheses generation: Lead the identification of issues and form hypotheses working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders
- Structuring and solving the problem: Determines most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems to guide the team taking advantage of the strategy organizations existing knowledge beyond immediate connections
- Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team in applying leading edge techniques; Reviews team analysis to ensure development of a robust fact base and creatively addressing data constraints
- Synthesis and generating recommendations: Lead the team in developing insights and prioritizing key conclusions; Develops a practical set of recommendations based on impact and ease of implementation
- Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills with executive level stakeholders by effectively communicating findings conclusions and recommendations both verbally and written
- Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a playercoach that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of highquality deliverables; Model the Ford behaviors and values; practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain
- Bachelors degree
- Minimum 10 years of experience (or Masters Degree and 710 years of experience) in Business Finance Economics Engineering or related field
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to structure/solve problems on your own projects and for the broader team
- Proven experience leading high impact crossfunctional 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)
- All candidates invited to interview for this role will be required to go through a behavioral interview as well as solve a case interview. If you do not have prior case interviewing experience the hiring team will provide resources prior to the interview
Even better you may have...
- MBA preferred
- Prior experience leading strategy projects or largescale programs/projects at a global scale
- Prior experience in a professional services firm (e.g. consulting private equity investment banking)
- Technical background with advanced data analytics experience.
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
- Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent rampup programs subsidized backup 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 Years Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a leadership level 5.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color age sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call.
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