Portfolio and Intake Lead

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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

* The Portfolio and Intake Lead is responsible for the health and velocity of the Ford Credit initiative funnel.

* This role ensures a high-quality, steady flow of proposals into the LEPMO, guiding them from initial "One-Pager" concepts through Lean Business Case development and into the Discovery pipeline.

* Beyond managing the intake "gate," this role provides critical program management leadership for high-priority initiatives in line with the LEPMO operating principles.

Portfolio and Intake Lead

What you'll do...

* Strategic Intake and Portfolio Governance

* Manage the end-to-end Project Intake process including intake agenda preparation, serving as the primary point of contact for business leads to ensure all submissions (One-Pagers, PRDs) are complete, high-quality, and strategically aligned and

* Maintain the initiative backlog and coordinate with the Project Intake Committee to prioritize candidates for solution discovery.

* Coordinate the intake committee cadence meetings, and ensure timely submission of required meeting content (Lean Business Case/One-Pager, PRD where applicable).

* Facilitate collaboration between Finance, Product, and Technology teams to synchronize funding, capacity planning, and technical dependencies.

* Develop and monitor intake metrics and real-time dashboards to identify bottlenecks in the pipeline and provide visibility into backlog aging and readiness.

* Support cross-functional communication and ensure stakeholders follow the established LEPMO processes.

* Manage a subset of high-priority programs within the portfolio, enabling end-to-end execution, timeline, and value realization.

* Other special projects as assigned by management.

What you'll do...

* Strategic Intake and Portfolio Governance

* Manage the end-to-end Project Intake process including intake agenda preparation, serving as the primary point of contact for business leads to ensure all submissions (One-Pagers, PRDs) are complete, high-quality, and strategically aligned and

* Maintain the initiative backlog and coordinate with the Project Intake Committee to prioritize candidates for solution discovery.

* Coordinate the intake committee cadence meetings, and ensure timely submission of required meeting content (Lean Business Case/One-Pager, PRD where applicable).

* Facilitate collaboration between Finance, Product, and Technology teams to synchronize funding, capacity planning, and technical dependencies.

* Develop and monitor intake metrics and real-time dashboards to identify bottlenecks in the pipeline and provide visibility into backlog aging and readiness.

* Support cross-functional communication and ensure stakeholders follow the established LEPMO processes.

* Manage a subset of high-priority programs within the portfolio, enabling end-to-end execution, timeline, and value realization.

* Other special projects as assigned by management.