Ford Motor Company

Program Manager

Ford Motor Company • $86K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education/experience.
  • 5+ years of project/program management in fast-paced environments.
  • 3+ years in agile development with strong problem-solving skills.
  • 4+ years managing web development projects.
  • 4+ years of experience working with creative teams.

Responsibilities

  • Present and communicate delivery plans and statuses to product teams and Senior Management.
  • Balance multiple projects and provide regular milestone updates.
  • Guide product teams on best practices for project delivery.
  • Identify and manage risks within projects, formulating solutions with stakeholders.
  • Document project scope, high-level solutions, and business requirements from discovery.
  • Ensure effective communication and accountability with agency/vendor/business partners.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Tuition assistance for continued education.
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members.
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

The Ford.com team is looking for individuals with digital marketing, delivery expertise to partner with our product organization turning data-driven insights into innovative solutions that improve sales and customer dedication.

Consider joining Ford as a Program Manager within our .com portfolio management team. This role is responsible for all project management activities and communication of key initiatives within the .com portfolio. This includes but is not limited to project planning, capacity management, status reporting, risk and stakeholder management. The Program Manager will us their strong relationships, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills to ensure the portfolio delivers projects on time and within budget.

Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Effectively present and communicate delivery plans, statuses, risks and key decisions within product teams and with Senior Management on a regular basis
  • Balance multiple projects to critical path, providing regular milestone updates and risk assessments to stakeholders and Senior Management
  • Provide guidance to product teams on best practices for project delivery
  • Identify, research, analyze and manage risks and interdependencies within projects/systems/resources, and formulate plausible solutions and contingency plans in consultation with stakeholders and Senior Management
  • Starting right from project Discovery, document project scope, high-level solutions and business requirements, while working with IT resources, gather detailed requirements and define detailed implementation plans
  • Ensure all impacted partners are involved and effectively interact with agency/vendor/business partners. Communicate expectations, share information and hold partners accountable


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • 5 + years of project/ program management experience working in a fast-paced, environment where priorities shift on a regular basis. Experience will include:
    • Clear understanding of analytics implementation and process
    • Firm grasp of capacity-based planning
    • Demonstrable ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline
  • 3 + years of experience working in an agile development-based environment with decision-making and creative problem-solving skills
  • 4+ years of experience in project management specific to web development
  • 4+ years of experience managing creative execution and working with creative teams.


Even better, you may have...
  • Master's degree
  • Agency experience
  • Scrum Master or formal training in an agile delivery model
  • PMP certification
  • Ability to work both independently and multi-functionally to achieve desired results
  • Understanding of ecommerce standard processes


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 childcare 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 salary grade 7 or 8 and ranges from $86,600- $166.200.

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/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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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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Net Income
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Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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$127.1 billion
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