Portfolio and Intake Lead

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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.

In this position...

• The Portfolio and Intake Lead is responsible for the health and velocity of the Ford Credit initiative funnel.
• This role ensures a high-quality steady flow of proposals into the LEPMO guiding them from initial One-Pager concepts through Lean Business Case development and into the Discovery pipeline.
• Beyond managing the intake gate this role provides critical program management leadership for high-priority initiatives in line with the LEPMO operating principles.

What youll do...

• Strategic Intake and Portfolio Governance
  • Manage the end-to-end Project Intake process including intake agenda preparation serving as the primary point of contact for business leads to ensure all submissions (One-Pagers PRDs) are complete high-quality and strategically aligned and
  • Maintain the initiative backlog and coordinate with the Project Intake Committee to prioritize candidates for solution discovery.
  • Coordinate the intake committee cadence meetings and ensure timely submission of required meeting content (Lean Business Case/One-Pager PRD where applicable).
  • Facilitate collaboration between Finance Product and Technology teams to synchronize funding capacity planning and technical dependencies.
  • Develop and monitor intake metrics and real-time dashboards to identify bottlenecks in the pipeline and provide visibility into backlog aging and readiness.
  • Support cross-functional communication and ensure stakeholders follow the established LEPMO processes.
  • Manage a subset of high-priority programs within the portfolio enabling end-to-end execution timeline and value realization.
  • Other special projects as assigned by management.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree
• 810 years of experience in PMO portfolio management or intake management for complex programs experience with Lean-Agile processes preferred.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale programs ($10M scope) and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong command of Lean-Agile methodologies stage-gate governance and prioritization frameworks (RICE WSJF).
• Proficiency in Jira Confluence SharePoint and data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI).

Even better you may have...

• MBA or PMP/Agile certification is a plus.
• Experience in Ford Credit or financial services transformation programs.
• Experience using portfolio analytics to influence executive-level resource allocation and prioritization decisions.
• Demonstrated success in coaching teams to move from traditional project mindsets to outcome-based Lean-Agile delivery.

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.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $60.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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