Senior Vehicle Planning & Strategy Program Manager

Ford Ford · Auto · Long Beach, CA +1 · PD Operations and Quality

Senior Vehicle Planning & Strategy Program Manager at Ford responsible for integrating cross-functional teams to develop the next generation of EV vehicles, ensuring compelling, feasible, and viable products by working with marketing, design, engineering, finance, and manufacturing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use your customer, engineering and business skills to integrate cross functional teams to deliver compelling, feasible and viable products.
  2. Lead and manage team setup, program assumptions, change control, communication, issues management, financial estimates, and industrialization plans.
  3. Lead teams to deliver on time and with quality, setting up schedule with cadence of key decisions, checkpoints, deliverables, etc.
  4. Plan the business case of the vehicle with finance, manufacturing, marketing, etc.
  5. Create and effectively deploy a more efficient product development process.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or business or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • 5+ years of experience working on production vehicle development, from concept to launch
  • 3+ years of experience in Program, Project or Product Management & Strategy, or as Design Engineer
  • Customer Focused Vehicle Planning Program Management
  • Strong collaboration skills to integrate vehicle cross-functional teams
  • Strong program management and planning skills

Nice to have

  • Results Driven in White Space and Fast Paced Environment
  • Ability and willingness to navigate in a “process-less” space and still achieve aspirational results.
  • Customer-focused with an open mind to work differently from standard process and outside boundaries.
  • Creative to find innovative/integrated solutions.
  • Ability to work with all employee levels from technical personnel to senior management.
  • Self-motivated and eager to take responsibility.
  • Ability to deliver results with minimal supervision.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • production vehicle development, from concept to launch
  • Program, Project or Product Management & Strategy
  • Customer Focused Vehicle Planning Program Management
  • Full PD Cycle Experience