Ford Motor Company

Transformation Manager

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States

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Salary

💰 $141,700 - $268,300 per year

About the role

  • Program Integration and Alignment: Orchestrate delivery across multiple workstreams and ARTs, ensuring alignment to enterprise transformation priorities and sequencing of key deliverables.
  • Execution Oversight and Outcome Delivery: Monitor and drive execution against program milestones and PI objectives, ensuring delivery is on time, within scope, and aligned to expected business outcomes.
  • Cross-Workstream and Cross-ART Dependency Management: Identify, manage, and resolve interdependencies, risks, issues and constraints across workstreams and ARTs, escalating as needed to maintain program momentum.
  • Executive Reporting and Insights: Develop and own rollup reporting and performance scorecards, translating complex delivery data into clear, concise, and actionable insights for senior leadership.
  • Stakeholder Leadership and Communication: Serve as a key liaison between Workstream DRIs/Project Managers, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Program Leadership, and Transformation Office functions (Governance, Organizational Change Management), ensuring alignment and effective decision-making.
  • Governance and Execution Discipline: Reinforce consistent program governance and execution standards, leveraging SAFe constructs (e.g., PI objectives, milestones) to enable alignment and transparency.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify systemic delivery challenges and drive improvements across workstreams and ARTs to enhance execution effectiveness and program outcomes.
  • Collaboration and Teaming: Partner with peer Transformation Managers to manage cross-program dependencies and provide support as needed, fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.

Requirements

  • 3 + years proven experience leading large-scale, complex programs with multiple interdependent workstreams and/or Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
  • Strong experience operating within a **Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)** environment, with the ability to translate Agile execution into program-level outcomes and insights.
  • **Preferred experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) and/or Scrum Master**, with demonstrated progression into program or transformation leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at both **program and executive levels**, including governance, reporting, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Expertise in **dependency management, integrated planning, and risk/issue mitigation** across complex, matrixed environments.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into **clear, executive-ready messaging**.
  • Proven ability to drive accountability and results across teams without direct authority.
  • Experience with Agile and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, MS Project).
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 & Tools
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)dependency managementintegrated planningrisk mitigationprogram governanceexecutive reportingperformance scorecardsAgile executionprogram-level outcomestransformation leadership
Soft Skills
communication skillsstakeholder alignmentcollaborationteam leadershipdecision-makingaccountabilityresults-drivensynthesis of complex informationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvement