Ford Motor Company

Manager, Global Ford Racing Motorsports Communications

Ford Motor Company • $115K — $218K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Reposted 2 weeks ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 5-7+ years of communications experience
  • Strong media relations background in automotive or motorsports
  • Passion for motorsports and desire for personal growth
  • Strong proficiency in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Ford Racing’s organization in Dearborn.
  • Develop storytelling strategies for Ford Racing’s motorsports.
  • Create communication strategies for racing activities.
  • Manage ongoing enterprise storytelling for Ford Racing.
  • Prepare briefing materials for Ford Racing's announcements.
  • Oversee media relations and expand Ford Racing’s media reach.
  • Utilize data to drive decision-making across communications.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • Ford Communications serves as an accelerant for the company's transformation, working to advance Ford's business success and future vision through innovative, world-class communications that unlock new value
  • We seek to establish Ford as the world's most trusted company through purpose-driven storytelling that drives advocacy; inspire a culture of optimism, competitiveness and creative excellence among our Ford team and partners; build the Ford brand and create desire for our products and services; and demonstrate our drive to create value for our stakeholders through Ford+


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Serve as a member of the Communications team, working in close collaboration with the Ford Racing organization based in Dearborn, Michigan
  • Build the strategy and capability to deliver powerful storytelling and communications for Ford Racing's motorsports, including a compelling narrative and message/content development for all of our racing activities
  • Create communications strategies that support Ford Racing's core areas of focus, including off-road on track racing activities
  • Responsible for ongoing enterprise storytelling around Ford Racing motorsports activities
  • Develop key briefing materials to support Ford Racing programs and announcements including message development, remarks, talking points and Q&A development
  • Collaborate and manage Ford Racing's agency partner for Motorsports, Campbell Communications; work closely with our Hypercar and F1 communications leads and partners
  • Partner and collaborate with Ford Racing's Motorsports marketing managers on the development of strategies and programs to support Ford Racing motorsports programs, including stakeholders from across the enterprise including Marketing, PD, Finance, Purchasing and leadership
  • Partner and collaborate with the Enthusiast and Truck communications managers on efforts that span across race and retail vehicles
  • Expand Ford Racing's media reach beyond traditional motorsports media to include consumer and lifestyle media; engage with and identify influences and advocates that will help build awareness of Ford Racing. Manage strategic media relations, ensuring consistent and responsive messaging
  • Use data to inform decision making - working with marketing, agencies and CGI teams to assist us in making data-based decisions
  • Develop a deep understanding of social media including the role of influencers and content creators
  • Continuous personal development of functional competencies and leadership agilities


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelors Degree
  • At least 5 - 7+ years of communications experience or equivalent experience
  • Extensive travel may be required including weekend travel (approximately 25-40%)

Even better, you may have...
  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant subject matter (Comms, Marketing, Business or equivalent education)
  • Have a focus on delivering to the strategy with a focus on storytelling that ladders up to our business priorities
  • Have a strong understanding of the media landscape - automotive, motorsports and consumer / lifestyle media with strong media relations background
  • Have a passion for motorsports and a desire to learn and develop in this area
  • Have a focus on excellence in materials creation (words, images and video)
  • Have an ability to always focus on the bigger picture of how what we do ladders up to the motorsport and broader company objectives - be results driven.
  • Have a focus on all key stakeholders including internal (leadership, employees, dealers) and external (traditional media, social media, influencers etc.)
  • Possess excellent abilities in key office tools such as PowerPoint, Word and Excel

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 leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's 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: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

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

#FR1 #LI-MK2

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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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
* Ladders Estimates

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