Ford Motor Company

Corporate Strategy Analyst

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • The Corporate Strategy Analyst role leads critical analyses and strategic thinking on impactful strategy issues on behalf of the enterprise for Ford Motor Company.
  • Are you excited about our Ford+ journey and working in a dynamic environment that will propel Ford forward? Are you an inherently curious and highly engaged individual looking for your next challenging assignment? Would you enjoy working in a dynamic environment that would provide you with significant cross-functional exposure, leadership, and development opportunities? If so, a role as a Corporate Strategy Analyst might be the perfect fit for you.
  • The Corporate Strategy team at Ford works on the most impactful strategic issues for the global Ford enterprise, focusing and prioritizing complex challenges facing the company, and defining the strategic choices that positively change the direction of the company in advancing its Ford+ objectives.
  • A diverse team (backgrounds, approach, and perspectives) structuring complex and ambiguous problems, providing objective outside-in, data driven recommendations. We aspire to foster a collegial environment that encourages outside-the-box thinking, where employees can bring their best selves to work every day. Given the mission critical nature of our projects, we encourage open dialogue based on an ‘experience hierarchy’ where everyone is encouraged to pressure test perspectives, backed by strong analytical and strategic thinking. We aspire to apply an apprenticeship model where you can solve some of the most complex issues, while building a strong strategic toolkit in service of your career development and aspirations.

Requirements

  • Have a Bachelors degree in engineering, finance or business from a world-class institution
  • 3+ years of experience in business/analytical roles (e.g., analytics, strategy, finance, engineering)
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional projects, working with various levels of the organization.
  • Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking. Ability to develop leading edge business models, frameworks for analysis, and long-term business strategies. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm
  • Understand the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must
  • Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues
  • Willing to roll up sleeves in creating complex analytical models, presentations, and communication materials to stakeholders
  • Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), word (white papers) is a must
  • Track record of collaboration with senior executives - must be comfortable and experienced in delivering formal presentations to senior leaders
  • Well-developed business judgment. Ability to understand financial and non-financial aspects of a problem and use sound business judgment to recommend actions.
  • **Even better, you may have...**
  • 1-2 years of experience in consulting or similar professional services roles
  • Masters degree in engineering, finance or MBA
  • Technical background with advanced analytics
Benefits
  • 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
analytical modelsbusiness modelsframeworks for analysislong-term business strategiesmathematical modelingdata analysispresentation developmenthypothesis-based reasoningadvanced analytics
Soft skills
analytical thinkingproblem-solvingcuriositycollaborationbusiness judgmentcreative solutionscross-functional leadershipcommunicationstrategic thinking
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreeMBA