Manager, Ford Pro/Truck Strategy

Ford, Inc; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave and ramp-up programs

Back-up child care assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford is seeking a strategic leader to serve as Portfolio Strategy Manager for Ford Pro and Truck across North America. You will translate market dynamics and customer insights into actionable portfolio strategies that drive profitable growth and strengthen Ford’s competitive position globally.

This high-visibility role requires synthesizing complexity into clarity, building compelling business cases, and influencing senior leadership decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, economics, or a related field.
• Significant experience in strategy, portfolio planning, product strategy, management consulting, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong financial acumen and experience building business cases and investment recommendations.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with ability to influence senior executives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to distill complexity into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy for Ford Pro Vehicles and Retail Truck across North America, aligning with regional priorities and Ford's global strategy.
• Drive segment analysis to identify opportunities, threats, and white-space areas in which Ford should compete.
• Coordinate portfolio studies considering regulatory, powertrain, capital allocation, and market demand with Marketing, Manufacturing, Product Development, and Finance teams.
• Develop robust business cases quantifying financial, operational, and strategic impacts of portfolio recommendations.
• Present recommendations to senior leadership with data-driven storytelling for confident decisions.
• Oversee strategy resources and budget across concurrent studies to ensure on-time delivery of insights for portfolio decisions.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional influence

Financial acumen

Executive storytelling

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Job description

Ford is seeking a strategic, analytical, and influential leader to serve as Portfolio Strategy Manager for Ford Pro and Truck across the North America markets. In this role, you will shape the future product portfolio by translating complex market dynamics, customer insights, and business constraints into actionable portfolio strategies that drive profitable growth and strengthen Ford's competitive position globally.

This is a high-visibility role that requires the ability to synthesize complexity into clarity, build compelling business cases, and influence senior leadership decision-making.

• Lead portfolio strategy for Ford Pro Vehicles and Retail Truck across the North America markets, ensuring alignment with regional priorities and Ford's global enterprise strategy.
• Drive segment 'chessboard' analysis to identify emerging market opportunities, competitive threats, and white-space segments, informing where and how Ford should compete.
• Lead comprehensive portfolio studies, factoring in complex variables and constraints—including regulatory environments, powertrain mix, capital allocation, and market-specific demand—while partnering closely with cross-functional teams across Marketing, Manufacturing, Product Development, and Finance.
• Develop robust business cases that quantify the financial, operational, and strategic implications of portfolio recommendations.
• Present recommendations to senior leadership with compelling storytelling, clear communication, and a data-driven narrative that enables confident decision-making.
• Manage strategy resources and budget across multiple concurrent studies, ensuring workstreams progress on schedule and deliver the insights required to support critical portfolio decisions.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, economics, or a related field
• Significant experience in strategy, portfolio planning, product strategy, management consulting, or a related discipline
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong financial acumen and experience building business cases and investment recommendations
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with proven ability to influence senior executives
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear, actionable insights

Preferred:

• MBA or advanced degree
• Automotive industry experience, particularly in product or portfolio planning
• Experience leading and developing teams, and managing budgets and resources

Key Competencies:

• Strategic and systems thinking
• Cross-functional leadership and influence
• Executive-level communication and presentation
• Comfort with ambiguity and complexity
• Global and cultural awareness
• Results orientation and bias for action
• Ability to lead and develop teams

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
• 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
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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 with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.