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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
The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships we provide financing personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If youre looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape enhance the customer experience and improve peoples lives this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
In this position...
- The candidate will make an impact by aligning business and global technology goals while managing relationships across geographically distributed teams and influencing decisions across multiple work streams and executive leadership. The primary customers for the role are engineering leaders product managers developers and analytics teams within Ford Credit.
- The candidate will have an understanding of Lean-Agile program management practices (including SAFe) DevOps and SRE principles and practices.
- The candidates technical depth should include understanding the principles behind why engineering teams make architectural decisions including cloud native platforms streaming data platforms and the challenges faced when providing secure solutions in regulatory spaces as well as ensuring the privacy of our customers.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Focus on program management and delivery of critical programs while ensuring the alignment of various teams and leaders and provide on-going visibility to all stakeholders on program status including key decisions dependencies risks issues metrics etc.
- Uncover anticipate raise and remove obstacles which prevent program teams from delivering against expected program outcomes.
- Support the teams to collaboratively drive continuous improvement and create a learning organization to enable speed to market and foster innovation.
- Develop and socialize new program management principles and practices fit for purpose for the organization.
- Create order out of chaos as needed and masterfully navigate ambiguities to create direction and strategy through discovery and a product mindset.
- Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations to eliminate knowledge silos.
- Be responsible for tool recommendation and implementation in alignment with program management best practice and working with vendor partners on tracking of the tasks and cross team delivery tracking.
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or relevant area of study or equivalent work experience.
- 8 years experience in engineering engineering program management technical program management product management or related area.
- Extensive experience using managing and supporting teams with Agile program management tools such as Jira Rally Confluence etc.
Even better you may have...
- Masters Degree in Computer Science Engineering Business Administration or related area.
- Certification in Project or Program Management such as PMP etc.
- Certification in Lean-Agile practices such as Certified Scrum Master or SAFe.
- Experience managing complex programs with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies.
- 10 years experience in engineering engineering program management technical program management product management or related area.
- Extensive experience managing programs supporting Platform service-oriented or SaaS based solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise.
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 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 Years Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: position is a range of salary grades SG5-SG8 .
Visa 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. 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 1-.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
