Ford Motor Company

Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Ford Motor Company • $170K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred in HR, Business Administration, or relevant field.
  • Minimum 10 years experience (12 years with Bachelor's) in HR, talent strategy, or related area.
  • Preferred Senior Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification.
  • Demonstrated success advising senior executives in complex, global organizations.
  • Experience with strategic workforce planning and talent strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Finance leaders to align people strategy with business objectives.
  • Act as a trusted advisor on organization effectiveness and leadership capability.
  • Transform business strategies into actionable workforce plans using analytics.
  • Lead strategic workforce planning and talent acquisition strategies.
  • Drive change management and support organizational transformation.
  • Advise on executive succession and leadership development needs.
  • Collaborate with HR centers of excellence to deliver integrated solutions.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Tuition assistance and family building benefits.
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

The Senior Director, HR Business Partner - Finance serves as the strategic people leader for global Finance organizations, partnering with senior Finance and HR leadership to shape and execute a talent agenda that enables business performance, transformation, and leadership continuity. This role translates business strategy into workforce plans, organization design, succession priorities, leadership effectiveness actions, and culture initiatives. The leader will bring enterprise HRBP depth, strong executive influence, data-driven workforce insight, and the ability to operate in a global matrix environment.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Finance leadership to define the people strategy required to deliver business priorities, including transformation, operating model effectiveness, succession strength, and critical capability development.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organization effectiveness, leadership capability, talent movement, workforce risk, and culture priorities that materially affect business performance.
  • Translate business strategy and workforce data into actionable talent plans, using workforce analytics, succession insights, engagement trends, and HR dashboards to identify risks, opportunities, and required interventions.
  • Lead strategic workforce planning for global skill teams, including role design, capability assessment, build/buy/borrow talent strategies.
  • Drive enterprise change management and organization transformation, ensuring leaders are equipped to communicate, adopt, and sustain new ways of working across regions and functions.
  • Advise leaders on executive succession, leadership development, technical capability pipelines, and talent readiness for future Finance roles.
  • Partner across HR centers of excellence to deliver integrated solutions across talent management, rewards, employee relations, performance management, culture, and organization development.
  • Coach senior leaders through sensitive people decisions, performance issues, employee relations matters, and employment-risk considerations with sound judgment and regulatory discipline.


Qualifications

You'll have...

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a 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, talent strategy, organization development, employee relations, or a related field.


Licenses and Certifications:

  • Senior Professional in Human Resources (PHR) (Preferred)


Even better, you may have...

  • Executive HRBP and Business Partnership Depth: Demonstrated success advising senior executives in a complex, global, matrixed organization with material business transformation, leadership, and workforce implications.


  • Strategic Workforce Planning and Talent Strategy: Experience translating business strategy into talent priorities, succession plans, organization design choices, and emerging talent profiles.


  • Executive Talent Acquisition Alignment: Partner with Talent Acquisition and business leaders to sharpen role scope, define must-have experiences, and pressure-test candidate requirements.


  • AI and Digital Fluency: Practical fluency using AI, analytics, and digital HR tools to improve decision quality, accelerate transformation, and increase HR delivery effectiveness.


  • Digital and Finance Transformation Exposure: Experience supporting organizations building pipelines for digital finance, data strategy, AI risk, governance, compliance, and other emerging capabilities.


  • Global and Multi-Market Experience: Experience supporting global teams, navigating regional complexity, and driving consistent talent outcomes across markets.


Work Requirements:

Involves occasional (defined as one-third or less of the time) lifting of no more than 10 pounds at a time. Work is performed primarily in a seated position and entails no significant stooping, standing, climbing, walking, etc. Many sedentary jobs require good use of the hands and fingers for repetitive hand-finger actions. Working conditions occur within low to moderate noise levels related to the use of standard office or classroom equipment.

Skills:

  • Executive Influence


  • Strategic Talent Planning


  • Workforce Analytics


  • Organization Design


  • Change Leadership


  • Succession Planning


  • Executive Talent Acquisition Partnership


  • Talent Management


  • Performance Management


  • Employee Relations


  • HR Strategy


  • Business Strategy


  • Leadership Coaching


  • Relationship Building


  • Project Management


  • Business Process Management


  • HR Information Systems


  • AI and Digital HR Fluency


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 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

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

#LI-Hybrid #LI-WC2

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.

Ford Motor Company Careers

Join the dynamic team at Ford Motor Company, a global leader in automotive innovation and manufacturing. At Ford, we are committed to driving human progress by providing outstanding vehicles and mobility solutions. This is an exciting time to become part of our inclusive team, where job opportunities abound and growth is not just a possibility, but a promise.

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At Ford Motor Company, you will collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Our professionals are at the forefront of automotive technology, leading projects that redefine transportation and sustainability. With a culture rooted in continuous improvement and respect for all, Ford offers a workplace where leadership, diversity training, and innovation are part of everyday life.

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Engage in work that makes a difference. Ford Motor Company is pioneering developments in electrification, autonomous vehicles, and smart mobility solutions. Our team of over 190,000 employees worldwide is dedicated to crafting experiences that improve the way the world moves.

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Working at Ford means more than just having a job; it means being part of a global family. Our culture promotes teamwork, integrity, and respect—values that underpin everything we do. We believe in nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment where every employee can thrive.

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Ford Motor Company is not just a great place to work; it’s a place to build a lasting career. Our employees enjoy competitive benefits, comprehensive health care, and retirement plans that rank among the best in the industry. We support career advancement through extensive training programs and hands-on experience in the latest automotive technologies.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
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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