Ford Motor Company

Supervisor, Ford Racing Niche Program Business Development

Ford Motor Company$115K — $218K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Engineering or a related degree
  • Customer insight for high-end products and customization
  • Strong business acumen with experience in viability assessment of proposals
  • Self-starter, motivated for success
  • Passion for winning and result-oriented
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and inventive problem-solving

Responsibilities

  • Develop a portfolio of low volume niche projects to maximize profitability
  • Design principles for program selection and business opportunities
  • Identify necessary functions and capabilities for in-sourcing
  • Conduct assessments with manufacturing teams on in-sourcing/out-sourcing
  • Engage in limited travel for benchmarking and partner visits

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized backup childcare
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and additional vacation options
  • Generous paid holiday schedule including the week between Christmas and New Year's
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • This leader will be responsible for developing business case and decision criteria for Ford Racing Niche Programs and customization efforts.
  • This is an opportunity to get in at the very start of a new area of focus within Ford Motor Company and specifically for Ford Racing. This position will be directly involved with the pinnacle products in Ford's portfolio.
  • This opportunity will have significant visibility with Ford senior leaders and potentially with new or existing outside partners.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Have ultimate responsibility for developing a portfolio of low volume niche projects and supporting business cases with goals of:
    • Maximizing profitability of Ford Racing
    • Developing in-house capability to deliver highly custom products for customers
    • Growing the Ford Racing brand
  • Design the principles to determine which programs / business opportunities should be pursued within the overall project
  • Identify additional functions / capabilities that must be in-sourced to stand up the model, choices to make, and recommendations
  • In conjunction with the manufacturing team, conduct full in-source/out-source assessments given a deep understanding of recent projects. Includes assessments of specialty skills or technologies as well as business case comparison.
  • Travel - Limited in beginning to site visits for benchmarking. Limited overall. Opportunities for more optional travel may exist if desired (supplier or partner visits, etc).


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelors in Engineering or related degree
  • Customer insight into preferences for high-end products and customization
  • Track record of high business acumen with ability to assess viability of competing proposals to determine where investments should be made to maximize profits from a manufacturing facility
  • Self starter, highly motivated for success
  • Passion for winning that will not accept excuses for failure
  • Person must be comfortable with ambiguity and general problem-solving. This is invention in the Ford system and the person must have an ability to find a path through uncharted territory.

Even better, you may have...
  • Masters of Engineering and/or Masters of Engineering Management
  • MBA
  • Up front Manufacturing planning experience
  • Product Planning experience
  • Low volume, niche product experience
  • Product development experience
  • Enthusiast background, with passion for enthusiast products or motorsports.

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 $115,500-$218,100.

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/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

#FR1 #LI-MK2

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1903
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