Manager, Global Racing Motorsport Communications

Manager, Global Ford Racing Motorsport Communications

Dearborn, MI, United States (Hybrid)

In this position...

• Ford Communications serves as an accelerant for the company’s transformation, working to advance Ford’s business success and future vision through innovative, world-class communications that unlock new value. We seek to establish Ford as the world’s most trusted company through purpose-driven storytelling that drives advocacy; inspire a culture of optimism, competitiveness and creative excellence among our Ford team and partners; build the Ford brand and create desire for our products and services;
  
  and demonstrate our drive to create value for our stakeholders through Ford+.

What you'll do...

• The Manager, Global Ford Racing Motorsport Communications, will be responsible for the storytelling and communications of Ford’s global communications for all of our racing activities including, but not limited to
  • Ford’s return to F1 in 2026 with Oracle Red Bull Racing and VCARB
  • Ford’s Sports Car racing with Mustang including WEC, IMSA, Hypercar, NASCAR, Australian Supercars, GT3, GT4 and Dark Horse R
  • Ford’s off-road racing programs including Dakar, Baja 1,000 and more
  • Ford Racing demonstrators’ programs such as Super Van and Super Truck
• The role will include working with and managing Ford’s Agency partner for Motorsports, Campbell Communications as well as our Hypercar and F1 comms execs in the UK
• The role will report directly to Communications but will interface on a daily basis with the Ford Racing organization
• This role will collaborate and work hand in hand with the Ford Racing Motorsports global marketing managers, engaging with motor sport as well as non-motor sport media, mining for new stories to tell around our motor sport business priorities and monitoring the competitive landscape.
• The role will also include development of strategic plans for the future of Ford Racing Communications and working with agency partners to deliver on these plans.
• Understand the media landscape – automotive, motorsports and consumer / lifestyle media with strong media relations
• Use data to inform decision making – working with marketing, agencies and CGI teams to assist us in making data-based decisions
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across the enterprise including Marketing, PD, Finance, Purchasing and leadership
• Develop a deep understanding of social media including the role of influencers and content creators
• Continuous personal development of functional competencies and leadership agilities

You’ll have...

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant subject matter (Comms, Marketing, Business or equivalent education)
• 5-7+ years of communications experience or equivalent experience
• Be available to work weekends and travel within the US and beyond as required by the role.

Even better, you may have...

• Have a passion for motorsports and a desire to learn and develop in this area
• Have a focus on excellence in materials creation (words, images and video)
• Have a focus on delivering to the strategy with a focus on storytelling that ladders up to our business priorities
• Have an ability to always focus on the bigger picture of how what we do ladders up to the motor sport and broader company objectives – be results driven.
• Have a focus on all key stakeholders including internal (leadership, employees, dealers) and external (traditional media, social media, influencers etc.)
• Possess excellent abilities in key office tools such as PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Have a passion and desire to travel and be open to working weekends to attend races in the US and beyond

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we’ve outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

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 the above?

No matter…