Ford Motor Company

VHE Business Office Analyst

Ford Motor Company$90K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma required
  • 10+ years experience in Engineering Business Office functions
  • 5+ years in engineering or technical program roles
  • Strong understanding of Ford engineering, financial and sourcing processes preferred
  • Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional workflows

Responsibilities

  • Manage Purchased Services spend to approved targets
  • Approve and oversee Ariba PS requests
  • Ensure compliance of PS requests with corporate requirements
  • Serve as SPOC for IPTSE Ariba users
  • Coordinate material spend and fund transfers for engine builds
  • Conduct headcount and resource planning against PDRP targets
  • Lead analysis of engineering design and test (ED&T) requirements

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave options
  • Family-building benefits including adoption assistance
  • Employee discounts on vehicles and management lease options
  • Tuition assistance for ongoing education
  • Supportive community through employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
  • Ability to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

The IPTSE Business Office Analyst supports a global engineering organization by managing business planning, headcount, purchased services, material spend, ED&T, and Cycle Plan execution. The analyst will serve as atrusted business advisor to IPTSE leadership, ensuring alignment to corporate financial guidance, governance requirements, and program milestones.

The role requires strong business and engineering acumen, clear communication skills, and the ability to manage complex, cross-functional processes.

Responsibilities

In this position...

Purchased Services (PS)
• Manage IPTSE Purchased Services spend to approved targets.
• Serve as first approver / scrutineer for Ariba PS requests.
• Process lead to ensure all PS requests meet corporate screening, classification, and approval requirements.
• Function as the Ariba tool Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for IPTSE users.
• Support PS budget returns, offsets, and director-level approval requests.

Material Spend

Manage material spend to approved targets across IPTSE.

Coordinate funds transfers required to support engine builds (e.g., transfers to engine plants for base engines).

Serve as SPOC for engine prototype scheduling and build processes.

What you'll do...

Headcount & Workforce Planning
• Manage IPTSE headcount to PDRP-approved targets.
• Lead Cycle Plan headcount analysis, evaluating resource demand versus approved capacity.
• Support LL2 / LL3 organizational planning.

ED&T (Engineering Design & Test)

Assess lump-sum ED&T requirements across unit and program work.

Support ED&T budget deployment, scrubs, and leadership reviews.

Partner with Chiefs and Finance on ED&T prioritization and governance.

Resource & Program Planning
• Lead global engine unit and global top-hat vehicle program studies.
• Manage cost-study process changes for unit and top-hat programs.
• Support Finance and Planning for program milestone submissions.
• Lead prototype vehicle count collection to support DV requirements submitted to VEV.
• Conduct comprehensive Cycle Plan analysis, including:
Quality
OPD
PVT
TVM
Top-hat programs

Qualifications

You'll have...
  • High School Diploma
  • Minimum 10 years of experience supporting or leading Engineering Business Office functions.
  • Minimum 5 years of engineering or technical program experience.


Even better, you may have...
  • Strong understanding of Ford engineering, financial, and sourcing processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional workflows.

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.

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.

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

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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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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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