Associate Director, Corporate Strategy

Ford Motor Company

Associate Director leading Corporate Strategy at Ford Motor Company. Tackling significant strategic challenges and facilitating high impact projects for the global enterprise.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $138,240 - $261,720 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and develop a team of diverse individuals and effectively leverage their expertise.
Project management: Lead the coordination of project engagements to organize resources and prioritize work to hit deliverables as a team in a time-constrained environment.
Hypotheses generation: Lead the identification of issues and form hypotheses, working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders.
Structuring and solving the problem: Determines most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems to guide the team, 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; Reviews team analysis to ensure development of a robust fact base and creatively addressing data constraints.
Synthesis and generating recommendations: Lead the team in developing insights and prioritizing key conclusions; Develops a practical set of recommendations based on impact and ease of implementation.
Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills with executive level stakeholders 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

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree
Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain.
Minimum 10 years of experience (or Master’s Degree and 7-10 years of experience) in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to structure/solve problems on your own projects and for the broader team.
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

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data AnalysisMathematical ModelingHypotheses GenerationSynthesis and RecommendationsProblem Structuring

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationInfluencing SkillsMentoringCuriosityCreativity