Manager, Corporate Strategy
Listed on 2026-02-18
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Management
Data Science Manager -
Business
Job Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Job Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
In this position...
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’.Our strategy managersare key workstream leads on our projects and are critical to the success of the deliverables
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
- 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 work streams 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
You'll have...
Who you are/
Minimum 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)
- MBA preferred
- Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects at a global scale
- Prior experience in a professional services firm is a plus but not required
- Technical background with advanced analytics
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a change maker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above?
No matter what you…
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