Manager, Corporate Strategy
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- As a strategy manager on our team, you will
- Hypotheses generation: Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire problem in the assigned work stream(s), working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders
- Structuring and solving the problem: Determine most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems, taking advantage of the strategy organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections
- Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team in applying leading edge techniques; Ensures team develops robust fact base, creatively addressing data constraints
- Synthesis and generating recommendations: Develop compelling insights from complex analysis. Synthesize complex analysis with an ability to draw out and prioritize key conclusions and Independently develop sound recommendations
- Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written
- Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a ‘player-coach’ that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables; Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise
Requirements
- Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 5-10 years of experience (or Master’s Degree and 3-5 yrs of experience)
- Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization
- Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems
- 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
- Love teaching and mentoring colleagues
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), word (white papers)
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
analytical approachesdata analysismathematical modelingproblem solvingfact base developmentsynthesis of analysisrecommendation developmentproject managementcross-functional leadershipstrategic thinking
Soft Skills
communicationpersuasioninfluencingleadershipcoachingmentoringcuriositycreativityteam collaborationsituational leadership