Corporate Systems Project Manager, Ford Energy
Dearborn, MI - USA
Job Summary
The Opportunity
As the Project Manager Corporate Systems & Business Platforms you will serve as an individual-contributor partner to the Head of Corporate Systems & Business Platforms helping coordinate and drive the systems processes and initiatives that fall outside the core SAP and Salesforce delivery teams. It is a hands-on coordination and execution role for someone who thrives on influence without authority and getting things done across a fast-scaling matrixed organization.
You will be the connective tissue of the organization: turning ambiguity into scoped plans driving cross-functional issues to closure and ensuring decisions and commitments made by leadership are never dropped.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
1. Emerging Projects & Governance
Own the intake and stand-up of new undefined initiatives before they have an owner a plan or a process including new reporting requirements governance processes that dont yet exist architecture gaps identified by the Enterprise Architecture team data ownership questions and operational readiness initiatives.
Define scope: Frame problem statements objectives and boundaries for newly identified needs.
Identify stakeholders: Determine who needs to be at the table and bring them in.
Create plans: Build lightweight project plans timelines and success criteria.
Drive meetings: Run working sessions and keep initiatives moving between check-ins.
Escalate issues: Surface blockers and risks to leadership before they become fire drills.
2. Executive Follow-Through
Act as the safety net for commitments made in leadership forums including action items from leadership discussions decisions from workshops cross-functional risks and dependency management.
Make sure things dont get dropped: Track open items to closure chase owners and report status back to leadership.
3. PMO / Reporting
Maintain the operating rhythm and visibility tools that keep the organizations leader and stakeholders informed including the RAID log status updates steering committee materials and portfolio visibility.
Qualifications
Position Qualifications and Key Capabilities
Required
Education: Bachelors degree in Business Information Systems Engineering or a related field.
Experience: 6 years in program/project coordination software engineer or a similar cross-functional individual-contributor role within a complex matrixed organization (commensurate with GSR 78 level).
Enterprise Systems Fluency: Working knowledge of ERP (SAP preferred) and CRM (Salesforce preferred) environments including how master data integrations and governance decisions affect the business.
Organizational Agility: Demonstrated ability to stand up structure scope plans stakeholders and cadence for ambiguous undefined initiatives.
Influence & Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to drive alignment across teams and represent the leaders priorities without direct authority.
Execution Discipline: Proven track record of tracking issues decisions and action items to closure in a fast-paced environment.
PMO Toolset: Hands-on experience maintaining RAID logs steering committee materials and portfolio reporting.
Preferred
Governance Background: Experience designing or standing up governance processes (data ownership master data governance architecture review) from scratch.
Startup Mindset: Comfort building process and structure from scratch within a larger corporate parent.
Manufacturing/Energy Exposure: Familiarity with manufacturing energy or other complex operational environments.
Key Attributes
A trusted individual contributor who can act as an extension of leadership detail-oriented highly organized and comfortable holding others accountable on the leaders behalf without having direct authority or people-management responsibility.
Location & Travel
U.S. with domestic travel
Company
As Ford establishes a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Battery Energy Storage Systems this role will initially be employed by Ford and is expected to transition to the subsidiary within one year.
Why Ford Energy
At Ford Energy you have the backing of an industrial manufacturing powerhouse with the agility of a dedicated energy startup offering industry leading technology. We offer a competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses Ford vehicle discounts and the opportunity to shape the energy strategy of one of the worlds most iconic brands.
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 a salary grade 7-8 and ranges from $86600-$166200.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.
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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid
Company: As Ford establishes a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Battery Energy Storage Systems this role will initially be employed by Ford and is expected to transition to the subsidiary within one year.
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