Portfolio Strategy & Transformation Lead

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and drug cover

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid holidays and generous PTO

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Product Transformation Lead in a hybrid role based in Dearborn. You will help transform EPEO from a platform-centric to a product-centric operating model, overseeing portfolio planning, strategy, and Center of Excellence initiatives.

The role partners with leaders to improve planning, governance, and value delivery. You’ll drive OKR planning, reporting, and leadership alignment while developing playbooks, standards, and training to support the transformation and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Organizational Leadership or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, strategy, transformation, or PMO leadership.
• Experience facilitating planning, governance, and executive-level communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio planning cycles, quarterly planning, roadmap development, and organizational rhythms to improve planning predictability and alignment.
• Develop portfolio reporting, artifacts, dashboards, and executive presentations for visibility into health, investment, and ownership.
• Analyze portfolio health, capacity, risks, value delivery, and investment trends to identify insights for leadership.
• Facilitate portfolio investment analysis, prioritization, scenario planning, and tradeoff evaluations with leadership.
• Define and improve portfolio planning, governance, and operating model artifacts to support alignment and decision-making.
• Support organizational visibility and planning capabilities, including team-to-product alignment and cost transparency.

Skills

Portfolio management

Product management

Strategy

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

Microsoft 365

Power BI

Tableau

Planview

Azure DevOps

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position...

The Enterprise Platform Engineering & Operations (EPEO) organization is transforming how it plans, prioritizes, funds, and delivers value. As part of this journey, EPEO is evolving from a platform-centric operating model toward a more product-centric approach focused on outcomes, customer value, strategic alignment, and organizational effectiveness.

The team is seeking a Product Transformation Lead to help drive this transformation. This role will support EPEO strategic planning, organizational OKRs, portfolio planning, product transformation, and Center of Excellence initiatives. The successful candidate will partner with leaders and teams across EPEO to improve how work is planned, aligned, governed, measured, and delivered.

This opportunity is well suited for someone who enjoys connecting strategy to execution, improving operating models and ways of working, facilitating organizational change, and helping leaders make informed investment and prioritization decisions.

What you'll do...

Portfolio Planning & Strategy

• Lead and facilitate portfolio planning cycles, quarterly planning activities, roadmap development, and organizational rhythms that improve planning predictability, reduce reactive work, and support strategic decision-making, investment alignment, and transformation objectives.
• Develop portfolio reporting, planning artifacts, executive presentations, dashboards, and decision-support materials that provide visibility into portfolio health, capacity, investment allocation, product ownership, and organizational performance.
• Analyze portfolio health, capacity, dependencies, risks, value delivery, workforce allocation, product and platform ownership, and investment trends to identify insights, opportunities, and recommendations for leadership.
• Facilitate portfolio investment analysis, prioritization discussions, scenario planning, and tradeoff evaluations to help leaders align resources, funding, and capacity to strategic outcomes.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve portfolio planning, roadmap, governance, and operating model artifacts to support organizational alignment, transparency, and decision-making.
• Support the development of organizational visibility and planning capabilities, including team-to-product alignment, workforce capacity, cost transparency, and investment management.

OKR Planning & Alignment

• Facilitate organization-wide OKR planning, alignment, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen the connection between strategy, portfolio investments, and measurable business outcomes.
• Facilitate planning workshops, portfolio reviews, leadership alignment sessions, and transformation discussions to build consensus, identify opportunities, and drive organizational alignment.
• Partner with leaders to define measurable objectives and key results that align strategic priorities, portfolio investments, and expected business outcomes.
• Develop outcome-based reporting, analytics, and insights that help leaders measure progress, evaluate value delivery, identify risks, and make informed strategic adjustments.
• Champion outcome-based planning practices across EPEO by coaching teams, sharing best practices, developing guidance, and helping leaders connect investments, execution, and measurable outcomes.

Product Transformation & Operating Model

• Help define, plan, and execute EPEO's platform-to-product transformation by assessing current-state capabilities, identifying future-state operating model needs, and developing recommendations, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Help define, design, and implement future-state operating model capabilities and ways of working, including portfolio planning, product ownership, team structures, capacity visibility, governance, collaboration models, and outcome-based delivery practices.
• Develop and evolve product management, product operations, portfolio planning, and transformation playbooks, frameworks, standards, and best practices that support EPEO's long-term operating model evolution.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend industry-leading practices, frameworks, technologies, and operating model approaches that improve portfolio management, product delivery, organizational effectiveness, and business outcomes.
• Develop and support transformation communications, training, coaching, and adoption strategies that help leaders and teams successfully implement new planning practices, operating model capabilities, and ways of working.
• Assess organizational capabilities and recommend training, coaching, consulting, tools, and capability-building investments that support EPEO's transformation, operating model evolution, and long-term organizational effectiveness.

Center of Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Help establish and evolve portfolio management, planning, product management, Agile, and tooling standards that improve organizational alignment, planning effectiveness, delivery visibility, and business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain templates, playbooks, guidance, frameworks, and best practices that improve planning quality, execution consistency, organizational transparency, and adoption of portfolio and product management practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning effectiveness, organizational visibility, governance, operating model maturity, workforce transparency, and execution consistency through data-driven analysis and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Decision Support

• Build trusted partnerships with leaders, teams, and stakeholders across EPEO to improve alignment, influence decision-making, and accelerate organizational planning, transformation, and delivery outcomes.
• Facilitate communication, alignment, and shared understanding between leadership, product teams, platform teams, and stakeholders to improve planning, prioritization, transparency, and execution outcomes.
• Partner in executive planning sessions, strategy discussions, portfolio reviews, governance forums, and transformation workshops by providing facilitation, analysis, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Provide data-driven insights, recommendations, and strategic options that help leaders make informed decisions regarding investments, priorities, organizational design, operating model evolution, and value delivery.

You’ll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Organizational Leadership, or a related discipline, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, strategy, business transformation, consulting, product operations, or PMO leadership roles.
• Experience facilitating planning, prioritization, strategy, or governance discussions across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience using portfolio management, planning, collaboration, and reporting tools, such as Jira, Microsoft 365, Power BI, Tableau, Planview, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations, executive-level communications, presentations, and strategic decision-support materials for senior leaders.

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with OKRs, outcome-based planning, or strategic planning processes.
• Experience supporting portfolio management, portfolio governance, or investment planning.
• Experience in product operations, product management, product strategy, organizational transformation, operating model transformation, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience or familiarity with outcome-based planning, product-centric operating models, organizational design, product management practices, or product transformation initiatives.

• Experience facilitating workshops, strategic planning sessions, portfolio reviews, OKR planning activities, or organizational transformation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Experience supporting agile-at-scale, product-centric, or organizational transformation initiatives using frameworks such as LeSS, SAFe, Product Operating Model, Team Topologies, or similar approaches.
• Experience with portfolio analytics, capacity planning, workforce planning, financial management, cost allocation, or organizational visibility initiatives used to support strategic investment and planning decisions.
• Familiarity with emerging portfolio and product management capabilities, including Atlassian Strategy Collection, Teamwork Collection, enterprise planning, work graph, and cross-team alignment concepts.
• Experience operating in large, complex organizations with multiple stakeholder groups, competing priorities, and enterprise-scale planning, transformation, or governance activities.
• Relevant certifications and/or demonstrated experience in Product Management, Product Operations, Agile, LeSS, SAFe, Strategy, PMP, Team Topologies, OKRs, or related disciplines.

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 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 salary grade 7 – salary grade 8 and ranges from $86,600-$166,200.

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.

*Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: New Hire Benefits

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.

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