Ford Motor Company

Manager, HR Business Partner

Ford Motor Company$112K — $212K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 5+ years of HR experience
  • Experience with organization design and change management
  • Willingness to relocate as per job location
  • In-person work required at Ford's Dearborn, MI headquarters

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business leaders to address people and culture challenges through HR consulting and coaching
  • Collaborate with leaders to drive proactive People and Culture strategies in line with business goals
  • Advocate for HR programs and facilitate smooth implementation to avoid operational disruptions
  • Engage with business leaders on talent initiatives like workforce planning and succession planning
  • Support organization design and lead change initiatives impacting teams and functions

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees
  • Tuition assistance
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Opportunity to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

If you are looking for an opportunity to become part of a dynamic Human Resources team your search ends here! Ford has an exciting opening for a Manager, HR Business Partner.

As a Manager, HR Business Partner, you will provide strategic HR partnership to business operations leaders in a function, market, or business unit. You will work closely with senior leaders to help shape and execute an HR agenda that enables delivery of the organization's goals. In this role, you will partner closely with the HR Business Partner Director and your peers to optimize talent, engagement, and the overall employee experience.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

HR Business Partners perform a specialized type of HR work focused on HR consulting with the business, including:
  • HR consulting and coaching: Partner with business leaders to solve significant people and culture issues, providing guidance across key employment areas such as hiring, performance management, rewards, and organization design.
  • Enabling business change: Collaborate with leaders to support and advance proactive People and Culture strategies aligned to business objectives.
  • HR program advocacy: Communicate the business value of HR initiatives and support program rollouts in a way that minimizes disruption to operations.
  • Talent Partnership: Work closely with business leaders and Human Resources Centers of Excellence (e.g., Talent and Recruiting) on key initiatives such as workforce planning, high-potential development, succession planning, etc.
  • Organization Design and Change Management: Support leaders through organization design efforts and lead medium- to large-scale change initiatives impacting teams and functions.

A great HR Business Partner is someone who:
  • Establishes trust and credibility quickly with leaders and stakeholders at all levels
  • Demonstrates the ability to influence and appropriately challenge stakeholders across the organization
  • Brings strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Applies data and analytics, quantitative reasoning, and data storytelling to inform decisions and drive outcomes
  • Works collaboratively in a team-oriented environment
  • Is action-oriented, persistent, and courageous in navigating complex situations
  • Is motivated, decisive, and driven to succeed in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
  • Demonstrates strong emotional resilience in the face of change and challenge


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of HR experience
  • Willingness to relocate, depending on location of job
  • Experience with organization design and change management
  • Willingness to work in person at Ford's Dearborn, MI headquarters

Even better, you may have...
  • Master's degree in Human Resources, an MBA with a concentration in human resources, or advanced degree in a related field (e.g., industrial/organizational psychology, organizational effectiveness, organizational development, human factors, social science)
  • Experience in management consulting
  • Experience supporting a global team
  • Experience supporting Tech/Design teams
  • Experience with recruiting, including executive recruiting, and onboarding
  • Strong project management skills with a high level of attention to detail

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 $112,680-212,760.

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

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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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