Senior Program Manager Jobs

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position...

Working within our Marketing, Sales & Service organization gives you the opportunity to advance the Ford reputation as a visionary vehicle and mobility services company delivering a trusted customer experience. We’re looking for informative individuals with the marketing, sales, and service expertise to turn data-driven insights into innovative solutions that improve sales and customer dedication. If you have an audience-first attitude, join us and be the eyes, ears, and voice of Ford.

Consider joining Ford as a Senior Program Manager within our portfolio management team. This role is responsible for the curation of scope, capacity planning and cycle-plan management internally for cross-enterprise projects that directly impact customer experiences. The Senior Program Manager will help implement new portfolio processes and be a champion for the progression and growth of the team. In addition to showing entrepreneurial thought leadership, you will be required to use core project management, communication, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills to ensure the portfolio delivers projects on time and within budget.

What You'll Do...

• Help the project Business Owner define and articulate project strategy and objectives, scope, and business requirements. Think creatively to make recommendations regarding execution strategies and potential solutions
• Identify, research, analyze and manage risks and interdependencies within projects/systems/resources, and formulate plausible solutions and contingency plans in consultation with stakeholders and Senior Management.
• Ensure all impacted partners are involved and effectively interact with agency/vendor/business partners. Communicate expectations, share information, and hold partners accountable
• Effectively present and communicate project delivery strategies, statuses, risks and key decisions within project teams and with Senior Management on a regular basis. Balance multiple projects to Critical Path, providing regular Milestone updates and Risk Assessments to Stakeholders and Senior Management
• Manage project budgets and timelines, ensuring that projects are delivered on-time, to scope and within budget
• Provide guidance to product teams on agile ceremonies, best practices, and implementation
• Assist in new process creation and roll out
• Starting right from project Discovery, document project scope, high-level solutions, and business requirements, and working with IT resources, gather detailed requirements and define detailed implementation plans

You'll have...

• 4 + years of experience working in an agile development-based environment with decision-making and creative problem-solving skills
• 6 + years of project management experience working in a fast-paced, environment where priorities shift on a regular basis
• Bachelor’s degree or a combination of education and equivalent experience

Even better, you may have...

• Ability to work both independently and multi-functionally to achieve desired results
• Scrum Master or formal training in an agile delivery model
• Demonstrable ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline
• Agency experience highly preferred
• Understanding of ecommerce standard processes
• Understanding of capacity-based planning
• PMP certification

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:

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

At Ford, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority. Vaccination has been proven to play a critical role in combating COVID-19. As a result, Ford has made the decision to require U.S. salaried employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless employees require an accommodation for religious or medical reasons. Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption. (As of June 19, 2023, we are no longer requiring a COVID-19 vaccination).

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