Supply Chain Manager, Business Operations

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Supply Chain

This role is for a Supply Chain Manager focused on Business Operations at Ford. The primary responsibility is to architect and manage the organization's governance forums and operating model, ensuring the global supply chain is robust, documented, digital, and modernized to support the Ford+ transformation. Key tasks include orchestrating executive forums, managing digital command centers, maintaining a "source of truth" for supply chain information, and operationalizing strategic initiatives. The role requires strong skills in SharePoint, executive communication, and program management within a complex global organization.

What you'd actually do

  1. Orchestrate and facilitate global executive governance forums, such as sourcing package approvals
  2. Lead the design and management of leadership digital command centers to provide real-time visibility into pending approvals, upcoming priorities, and business partner/supplier engagement
  3. Curate and maintain the Global Supply Chain "source of truth," including the management of forum filings, historical event logs, and centralized communications repositories
  4. Architect and manage high-security SharePoint environments to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and controlled access of sensitive executive-level information
  5. Execute the end-to-end logistics and content orchestration for executive leadership meetings, including agenda setting, material preparation, and action-item tracking

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field
  • 3+ years of experience in supply chain, business operations, or program management in a complex global organization
  • Advanced proficiency in SharePoint administration, such as management of sensitive/confidential data, permissions management, and new site designs
  • Strong proficiency in executive-level communication, strategic storytelling, and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (SharePoint, PowerPoint, Teams)

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or MBA in a relevant field
  • 5+ years of experience in supply chain, business operations, or program management in a complex global organization
  • 3+ years of experience within Ford Supply Chain (e.g., Purchasing, STA, SOT, or Program Control) with deep knowledge of internal processes
  • Proven ability to manage the "connective tissue" of a large organization, ensuring that information reaches the right stakeholders at the right time
  • Experience in business office, program management, or chief of staff roles
  • Proven experience running and facilitating high-stakes executive meetings
  • Experience coordinating complex information flows and maintaining executive-level confidentiality across a global matrix, including knowledge repositories and historical business records
  • Familiarity with digital transformation and the application of automation/AI to business office workflows
  • Experience managing digital dashboards or command centers for executive-level decision support

What the JD emphasized

  • deep organizational navigation and knowledge
  • connective tissue of the global supply chain is robust, documented, digital, and modernized
  • Advanced proficiency in SharePoint administration
  • complex global organization