Ford Motor Company

Project Manager - Tariff Analyst

Ford Motor Company • $72K — $121K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
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5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or related field
  • 5+ years of project management experience in cross-functional organizations
  • Proficiency in PowerPoint for audience-focused presentations
  • Strong Excel skills for data analysis (pivot tables, lookups)
  • Experience with PM tools (Smartsheet, Jira, Microsoft Project)
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage requests for supplier tariff coverage, balancing payments and credits
  • Oversee end-to-end contract cycle regarding tariffs
  • Act as the primary liaison for stakeholder communications on tariff and contract status
  • Lead discussions on project status and risks with senior management
  • Drive process improvements for tariff workflows

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible family care days and parental leave programs
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups for community involvement
  • Generous paid time off, including community service days
  • Paid holidays, including a full week off during the holiday season
Full Job Description
Job Description

Project Manager - Tariff Analyst

In this position...

The automotive industry is amid significant disruption and change with an increasingly complex global supply chain, enormous amounts of capital investment towards electrification, and a digital transformation of the way large enterprises do business. The Ford Supply Chain Organization has recently created a Project Management Office (PMO) to drive sense of urgency and disciplined execution of key projects, identify interdependencies and connect within Supply Chain and enterprise-wide on broader initiatives, and foster learnings to enhance functional routines and impact.

We are hiring a Project Manager - Tariff Analyst to help build and scale the supply chain PMO.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Project Planning & Execution - Aggregate and manage all requests for supplier tariff coverage, balancing the appropriate mix of cash payments and offset credits. Ensure the strategic balance between supplier payment expediency and financial accuracy to ensure Ford pays the appropriate amounts. Lead the recovery of supplier payments via offset credit retroactive recovery initiatives.
  • Contract Management & Strategy - Manage the end-to-end (E2E) contract cycle related to tariffs, ensuring all commercial agreements are executed and maintained. Proactively identify components requiring tariff coverage in new programs and work with PD and Procurement to align on the financial and contractual strategy
  • Stakeholder Communication & Management - Primary point of contact between Supply Chain, PD, Finance, Operations, and Programs Teams regarding tariff coverage and contract status. Effectively lead communications on project status, issues, and key risks to senior management and cross-functional partners, fostering collaborative relationships.
    Lead business case discussions and reviews for component resourcing and tariff mitigation impacts.
  • Supply Chain Development - Drive process improvements in the tariff request and recovery workflow to enhance efficiency, transparency, and financial compliance across the enterprise.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree discipline in Project Management, Operations Management, Business Administration, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of project management experience in cross-functional, and matrixed organizations (e.g. PMO, strategy & business operations, management consulting, corporate strategy, Supply Chain Function)
  • Proficiency using PowerPoint to create presentations that can be tailored to different audiences
  • Proficiency using Excel to create data analysis to inform storytelling (e.g., pivot tables, lookups)
  • Experience using Project Management tools and software (e.g. Smartsheet, Jira, Microsoft Project)
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills


Even better, you may have...
  • Supplier Related Tariff Experience
  • 5+ years of experience in supply chain, procurement, logistics, operations, or related fields
  • Customer-centric mindset / prior experience in product management
  • Knowledge of Power BI, Alteryx, Ariba, SAP,helpful but not required
  • Master's degree in business administration, supply chain, engineering, or related field

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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
  • This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $72,480-121,440.
  • This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.
  • This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$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.

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.

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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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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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