EV Supply Chain Leader: Strategy & Global Sourcing | Hybrid

Ford-Motor-Company; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid holidays

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in California’s Long Beach area seeks a senior sourcing leader for the EV/UEV platform procurement. You will own end-to-end sourcing strategy, drive cost and delivery performance, and lead cross-functional teams to optimize supplier relationships across geographies.

You will partner with engineering to align strategies with roadmaps, develop should-cost models, and lead make-vs-buy analyses to ensure best-in-class supply chain outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain management or commodity management.
• Experience bringing creative negotiation skills and out-of-the-box strategy.
• Strong relationship management skills with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sourcing strategy for critical spend areas across the UEV platform and follow-on advanced EV programs from sourcing strategy development through SOP, including supplier selection, contracting, and ongoing cost, quality, and delivery performance.
• Partner with engineering from concept through launch to align sourcing strategy with technical roadmaps, design freeze milestones, and prototype-to-production transitions. Structure commercial agreements that protect program timing without ceding cost leverage.
• Build first-principles should-cost models with cross-functional teams to drive a ground-up, physics-based part and system cost perspective. Use these models to set negotiation positions, evaluate quote submissions, and challenge supplier pricing line by line.
• Lead make-vs-buy analysis to ensure we have a best-in-class supply chain that delivers optimal value.
• Develop the supply base for resilience. Identify and qualify Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners across geographies; build dual-source and regional capacity strategies that address raw material scarcity, geopolitical risk, and an evolving global trade and tariff environment.
• Drive automation across the supply chain to deliver best-in-class supply chain efficiency. Partner with suppliers to identify opportunities for process automation and robotics.
• Shape the tools and processes the ADVEV supply chain runs on, including should-cost methodology, supplier and agreement management systems, and AI-enabled analytics that scale how Ford evaluates suppliers, parts, and agreements.

Skills

End-to-end sourcing

Negotiation skills

Relationship management

Supply chain management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management

Master’s degree (Engineering, Business, or MBA)

Job description

Ford Motor Company in California’s Long Beach area seeks a senior sourcing leader for the EV/UEV platform procurement. You will own end-to-end sourcing strategy, drive cost and delivery performance, and lead cross-functional teams to optimize supplier relationships across geographies.

You will partner with engineering to align strategies with roadmaps, develop should-cost models, and lead make-vs-buy analyses to ensure best-in-class supply chain outcomes.