IMG Strategy Director

Shape the Next Decade of Fords Growth Across International Markets

Fords International Markets Group is elevating abrand-new high-impact leadership role and were looking for a bold strategic mind to define it. Reporting directly to theExecutive Director Of Strategy And Transformationand working shoulder-to-shoulder with the executive leadership team across Sales Marketing Ford Pro and our aftersales teams this is your chance to influence the strategic direction of an entire region.

If you thrive on ambiguity love turning complex data into compelling stories with solid implementation plans and want to influence decisions without waiting for a playbook keep reading.

What Youll Own

A Winning Plan for IMG.Youll support setting the vision for where IMG needs to be now near and far. Turning the strategic priorities into live workstreams delivering real results.

Growth.Build growth strategies for business opportunities and partner with skill-team leaders to create compelling business cases for critical bets that require capital investment.

Competitive Disruption.Lead the strategic response to one of the industrys biggest challenges: the rapid expansion of Chinese OEMs across IMGs footprint.

AI-Driven Transformation.Serve as IMGs strategic lead for enterprise AI adoption identifying and prioritizing high-impact AI/ML opportunities that boost efficiency customer experience and growth while partnering with global tech leaders on roadmap governance.

Capability Building.Act as a thought partner to the IMG President resolving structural capability gaps through continuous improvement approaches like the Five Whys methodology.

Global Alignment.Coordinate reviews that connect IMGs regional strategy to Fords global corporate vision.

Who You Are

Youre acohesive storytellerwho can translate messy data into narratives that unite the boardroom and the frontline. Youre acollaborative challenger building influence across a matrixed organization without formal authority while still pushing back on legacy thinking. You can Unite teams around a strategy without compromising what must be true for the winning proposition. And youre adetermined self-starterwho sees roadblocks before they appear and moves anyway.

Why This Role

This isnt a role where you inherit someone elses strategy youre helping shape it. Youll have direct access to the IMG President a seat at the table for the regions biggest capital decisions and the mandate to build a strategy function that will define how Ford competes across international markets for the next decade.

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What You Bring

• 1215 yearsin corporate strategy business transformation or portfolio management within automotive mobility or heavy industry
• Proven experience managingfragmented multi-market regions(APAC ASEAN Middle East LatAm) balancing mature and emerging markets
• A track record leadingmajor organizational redesigns especially shifting decentralized markets toward hub-and-spoke models
• Commercial fluency inB2B fleets connectivity/subscriptions or aftersales
• Deep expertise incapital allocation product lifecycle planning and building airtight business cases
• A bias foragile real-time decision-makingover slow traditional review cycles
• Strongpredictive competitive modellinginstincts and comfort with JV/distributor governance
• MBA or advanced degreein Engineering Economics or Finance; Lean Six Sigma Agile/Scrum or advanced strategy credentials a strong plus