Ford Motor Company

Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Ford Motor Company$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources or related field.
  • 10+ years of HR experience (12+ with Bachelor's).
  • Strong understanding of HR practices in regulated environments.
  • Willingness to be onsite in Dearborn, MI at least four days a week.
  • Proven success in digital talent acquisition, especially in financial services.

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with business groups to identify their HR needs.
  • Lead initiatives to foster a culture of employee engagement and excellence.
  • Evaluate and improve company-wide processes and policies to support workforce objectives.
  • Partner with senior leadership to drive transformational talent strategies.
  • Conduct briefings and provide coaching on people and culture issues.
  • Advise on strategies for talent growth and capability development.
  • Drive advocacy for HR programs through interaction with senior management.
  • Align workforce plans with global business needs.
  • Deliver critical HR projects to address complex people and culture challenges.
  • Analyze impact of strategies on business and implement necessary improvements.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility assistance.
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance programs.
  • Active employee resource groups promoting diversity.
  • Paid time off for community service and a generous holiday schedule.
  • Options to purchase additional vacation time.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

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

As a Senior Director, HR Business Partner, you will serve as a key member of the HR Business Partner team, leading the people strategy and HR delivery for Ford Credit. You will partner across the HR function to drive scalable HR programs and talent initiatives, deliver value-added support to an organization's leadership team, and translate business objectives into effective execution across the organization.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Build strong relationships while building credibility with business groups to understand their needs, goals, and challenges. Collaborate with business leaders and senior management to influence, develop, and execute HR plans to support the regional business strategy.
  • Lead the organization towards a culture of excellence in which employees feel engaged and inspired to deliver business results. Develop and implement long-term people and culture plans, strategies, and initiatives to support the delivery of business strategy.
  • Evaluate and assesse current company-wide and/or cross-functional processes and policies and identifies opportunities for improvement to better support the workforce and business objectives.
  • Lead the enablement of a business change by serving as a strategic business partner to senior leadership focused on a transformational talent agenda designed to attract, develop, and retain the best talent in the industry.
  • Conduct business and technical briefings for top management and coach business leaders to solve people and culture issues of significance to the organization; provide expertise in technical and regulatory aspects of employment, including hiring, termination, performance management, rewards, etc.
  • Advise leaders on strategies to grow talent and develop technical capability pipelines for the business unit.
  • Drive HR program advocacy across locations under jurisdiction through frequent interaction with senior management and conducting requisite briefings to communicate the business value of HR initiatives such as improved employee productivity and a positive work environment, etc.
  • Drive organization-specific people and workforce plans and roadmaps to align the workforce with business needs at the global level. Review relevant monthly and quarterly Corporate HR Dashboards, tracks trends, and develops appropriate changes to the plan in collaboration with the business.
  • Own the delivery of critical HR Projects to diagnose and resolve new and ambiguous people and culture problems without precedent and/or continuous improvement programs.
  • Analyze the long-term impact of new or anticipated strategies and decisions on the business to take appropriate action. Lead rigorous process and service improvement programs.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree (preferred) in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience.
  • Minimum 10 years of work experience with a Master's degree or 12 years of work experience with a Bachelor's degree, preferably in Human Resources or a related field.
  • Willingness to work in person at Ford's Dearborn, MI headquarters at least four days per week.


Even better, you may have...
  • Financial Services & Auto Finance Industry Depth: Prior experience leading HR or talent strategy within a bank, captive automotive finance company, commercial lending institution, or fintech organization.
  • Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge: Deep working knowledge of HR practices within heavily regulated environments, including familiarity with risk management frameworks, compliance audits, and financial industry governance.
  • Fintech & Digital Talent Acquisition: Proven success supporting organizations undergoing digital transformations, with specific experience building talent pipelines for software engineering, data science, and digital product teams within a financial services context.
  • Global/Multi-Market Experience: Experience leading global teams and navigating international labor markets and global financial services regulations.


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 leadership level 4.

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/LL4Benefits

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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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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