Manager, Corporate Strategy

Lincoln Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and Rx

Flexible family care days

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Strategy Manager for its Corporate Strategy team. The role leads workstreams, generates hypotheses, structures complex problems, and delivers high-impact insights to guide strategic choices aligned with Ford+.

This leadership position emphasizes coaching, data-driven analysis, and executive-level communication. The candidate should have a strong business/engineering background, 5–10 years of experience (MBA a plus), and advanced PowerPoint/Excel skills.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Hypotheses generation across work streams with strategy leadership and stakeholders.
• Structuring and solving complex problems leveraging the strategy organization’s knowledge.
• Conducting high-quality analyses and guiding robust data-driven conclusions.
• Synthesis and generation of recommendations with executive level communication.
• Demonstrating influencing skills to communicate findings and recommendations.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical mindset

PowerPoint mastery

Excel modeling

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Economics/Engineering

MBA preferred

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

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 managers are key workstream leads on our projects and are critical to the success of the deliverables

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 workstreams 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

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)

Even better, you may have

• 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

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.

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 changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, subsidized back‑up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: BENEFITS (https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP1)

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.