Ford Motor Company

Manager, Corporate Strategy

Ford Motor Company$120K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Thought leadership and expertise in a relevant field
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related
  • 5-10 years of experience (or Master's with 3-5 years) in strategy roles
  • Experience leading high-impact, cross-functional global projects
  • Deep understanding of automotive industry dynamics and company operations
  • Proven track record of innovative problem-solving
  • Passion for mentoring and developing team members
  • Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word for senior-level presentations

Responsibilities

  • Generate hypotheses to identify key issues in assigned workstreams
  • Structure and solve complex problems using existing organizational knowledge
  • Conduct analyses to ensure accuracy and high-quality insights
  • Synthesize complex analysis into actionable recommendations
  • Communicate and persuade stakeholders effectively about findings
  • Coach team members while balancing hands-on work and delegation
  • Model Ford+ values through leadership and strategic toolkit application

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, parental leave, and back-up child care subsidies
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Employee discounts on vehicle purchases and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Active employee resource groups for networking and support
  • Generous paid time off including holidays and community service
  • Options to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

The Corporate Strategy team at Ford works on the most impactful strategic issues for the global Ford enterprise, focusing and prioritizing complex challenges facing the company, and defining the strategic choices that positively change the direction of the company in advancing its Ford+ objectives'. Our strategy managers are key workstream leads on our projects and are critical to the success of the deliverables

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • As a strategy manager on our team, you will
  • Hypotheses generation: Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire problem in the assigned work stream(s), working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders
  • Structuring and solving the problem: Determine most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems, taking advantage of the strategy organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections
  • Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team in applying leading edge techniques; Ensures team develops robust fact base, creatively addressing data constraints
  • Synthesis and generating recommendations: Develop compelling insights from complex analysis. Synthesize complex analysis with an ability to draw out and prioritize key conclusions and Independently develop sound recommendations
  • Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written
  • Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a 'player-coach' that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables; Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise


Qualifications

You'll have...

Who you are/Minimum requirements:
  • Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or related field.
  • Minimum 5-10 years of experience (or Master's Degree and 3-5 yrs of experience)
  • Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization
  • Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems
  • Understand the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must
  • Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues
  • Love teaching and mentoring colleagues
  • Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), word (white papers)


Even better, you may have...
  • MBA preferred
  • Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects at a global scale
  • Prior experience in a professional services firm is a plus but not required
  • Technical background with advanced analytics


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder...or 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 Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: BENEFITS

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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 #LI-MN1

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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