Powertrain Business Operations & Commercial Strategy Specialist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Parental leave

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks an experienced Strategic Advisory professional to translate frontline automotive operations into enterprise-level commercial strategy across our national network. You will act as an internal consultant, linking sales and inventory metrics to clear strategic narratives that guide investment, pivots and growth.

Leverage data fluency to support leadership with actionable roadmaps, operational playbooks, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of automotive commercial operations experience across OEM field, dealer operations, or wholesale distribution.
• 2+ years of navigating
• white space
• projects—demonstrating flexibility and ability to establish structure in evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as an Internal Consultant to understand operational priorities and advise on growth opportunities.
• Translate metrics on sales, distributor stock levels, returns, and RO cycle into strategic narratives explaining what, why, and where to steer the business next.
• Drive initiatives to optimize wholesale throughput, resolve supply chain bottlenecks, and accelerate vehicle service turnaround across the national footprint.

Skills

Automotive ops experience

Strategic advisory

Data fluency

Cross-functional communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

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.

In this position

We know firsthand how demanding and vital frontline automotive work is. Whether you have spent years leading dealership fixed operations, managing wholesale parts channels, or driving performance across an OEM field zone, you have developed deep, hard-earned expertise on how the automotive business truly functions on the ground.

This role offers the opportunity to bring that valuable operational background into a central, strategic advisory position. Here, your frontline understanding directly shapes enterprise-level commercial strategy across our entire national network.

Operating with the mindset of an internal business consultant, you will become the expert on the data and market forces that drive our Powertrain and Aftersales business. You will work shoulder to shoulder with business owners, wholesale distributors, and division leaders. By developing a comprehensive, big-picture understanding of the business, you will translate operational data into strategic clarity. You will help business leaders decide where to invest, when to pivot, and how to drive sustainable commercial growth.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Business Advisory and Enterprise Consulting
  • Act as an Internal Consultant: Partner directly with FCSD business owners and leadership to understand their operational priorities. Act as a trusted advisor who uses commercial insights to challenge assumptions and uncover growth opportunities.
  • Connect Data to Real-World Execution: Master the numbers governing sales performance, distributor stock levels, core returns, and Repair Order (RO) cycle times. Translate operational metrics into clear strategic narratives that explain what is happening, why it is happening, and where we should steer the business next.
  • Drive Business Transformation: Guide initiatives that optimize wholesale throughput, resolve supply chain bottlenecks, and accelerate vehicle service turnaround times across our national footprint.
• Market Intelligence and Commercial Strategy
  • Guide Strategic Pivots: Evaluate market demand, distribution velocity, and inventory alignment. Advise business owners on optimizing both legacy ICE platforms and emerging EV powertrain components.
  • Competitive Benchmarking: Analyze powertrain service models, parts availability, and pricing structures against OEM and aftermarket competitors to ensure Ford maintains a decisive commercial edge.
  • Champion Operational Innovation: Identify, evaluate, and help implement modern tools, automated analytics dashboards, and operational playbooks that make dealer and distributor networks more agile, efficient, and profitable.
• Executive Storytelling and Change Enablement
  • Influence Without Direct Authority: Synthesize complex commercial metrics into executive-ready business cases and actionable roadmaps that build consensus among cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Bridge Strategy and Frontline Reality: Leverage your practical automotive background to ensure corporate strategies are commercially viable, practical, and readily adopted by dealer networks and wholesale partners.

You'll have

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of experience in automotive commercial operations, such as OEM field operations (Zone Manager, Business Development Manager, Parts/Service Field Manager), dealership management (Fixed Operations, Parts, Service, General Management), or wholesale parts distribution.
• 2+ years of experience navigating "white space" projects-demonstrating flexibility, managing ambiguity, and help establish structure and processes in undefined or rapidly evolving business environments.

Even better, you may have

• An Entrepreneurial and Consultant Mindset: Demonstrated ability to evaluate business operations, identify root causes of performance gaps, and propose practical, high-impact commercial solutions.
• Commercial Acumen and Data Fluency: Comfort navigating business data (sales volume, wholesale turns, margin analysis, inventory metrics, or RO cycle times) to extract actionable strategic insights.
• Influencing and Communication Skills: Proven ability to build trusted partnerships with business leaders, present compelling business cases, and guide teams through operational change.
• Prior FCSD or OEM Field Leadership Experience: Background as an Ownership Zone Manager (OZM), Business Development Manager (BDM), CPWD Zone Manager, or in Parts Supply and Logistics.
• Dealership Fixed Operations Mastery: Deep familiarity with dealership service and parts workflows, technician productivity, warranty versus customer-pay dynamics, and wholesale parts distribution (PTD, CPWD, IRF).
• Business Intelligence and Data Visualization: Experience utilizing tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or advanced Excel to synthesize trends and tell compelling visual stories with data.
• Powertrain and Aftersales Domain Knowledge: Understanding of powertrain assemblies, remanufacturing processes, ICE/EV component lifecycles, and core supply loops.
• Cross-Functional Change Leadership: Experience facilitating operational process improvements, digital tool rollouts, or new commercial program launches.

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 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$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.

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.