HR M&A & New Business Enablement Portfolio Lead

Ford; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford in Dearborn, Michigan is seeking a Manager, HR M&A and New Business Enablement to lead portfolio governance, practice operations and knowledge management for mergers, acquisitions, and new business standups. The role partners with senior HR leaders to maintain integrated visibility and coordinate cross‑program dependencies.

It delivers through influence, cross‑functional coordination and robust governance tools, ensuring readiness frameworks, playbooks and dashboards stay current and

Responsibilities

• Manage integrated portfolio planning, governance, reporting, and operating cadences across active mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, legal entity formations, and new business initiatives.
• Maintain portfolio-level project plans, governance calendars, milestones, risks, actions, issues, dependencies, decisions, and resource views; identify emerging concerns and coordinate timely escalation and follow-through.
• Create and maintain executive-ready dashboards, readiness scorecards, portfolio updates, and governance materials that provide leadership with clear visibility to progress, critical decisions, interdependencies, and areas requiring attention.
• Manage the team's shared methodologies, playbooks, templates, readiness frameworks, service agreement tools, governance standards, implementation toolkits, and common operating practices; ensure they remain practical, current, and reusable across initiatives.
• Ensure playbooks, trackers, decisions, governance materials, templates, and lessons learned are maintained in shared, accessible repositories that support continuity, reuse, and effective knowledge transfer across personnel and initiatives.
• Coordinate across Directors responsible for M&A, United States new business standups, and European joint ventures to improve information flow, execution consistency, cross-program alignment, workload visibility, and portfolio prioritization.
• Provide targeted program-management and implementation capacity to Director-led initiatives, including readiness assessments, workplan management, cross-functional coordination, testing and cutover support, training and change activities, and stabilization tracking.
• Analyze current- and future-state processes; facilitate requirements gathering, process mapping, workflow analysis, and operational design; and apply continuous-improvement methods to improve efficiency, scalability, control, and execution effectiveness.
• Support service agreement and vendor governance by maintaining service inventories, governance routines, deliverable and obligation trackers, performance measures, issue logs, and reusable standards for consultants, implementation partners, managed service providers, and other external providers.
• Represent HR M&A and New Business Enablement in designated governance forums, portfolio reviews, and cross-functional working sessions; communicate status, surface risks and dependencies, and coordinate follow-through while preserving substantive business and workforce decisions for the accountable leaders.
• Capture lessons learned and performance insight

Job description

Ford in Dearborn, Michigan is seeking a Manager, HR M&A and New Business Enablement to lead portfolio governance, practice operations and knowledge management for mergers, acquisitions, and new business standups. The role partners with senior HR leaders to maintain integrated visibility and coordinate cross‑program dependencies.

It delivers through influence, cross‑functional coordination and robust governance tools, ensuring readiness frameworks, playbooks and dashboards stay current and