Project Pre-Launch Specialist

Ford; Allen Park (MI); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Project Pre-Launch Specialist to drive planning and execution across Vehicle Personalization, Ford Racing, Accessories, and marketing initiatives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define plans, track progress, surface risks, and support launch readiness in a dynamic environment.

This role emphasizes strong communication, judgment, and the ability to move work forward while adapting to evolving requirements and priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, program/project management or related field.
• Experience supporting or managing projects, programs, product launches, marketing initiatives, or cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

• Manage launches from planning through post-launch review.
• Define objectives, scope, milestones, ownership, and success measures with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain project plans, schedules, and status reports.
• Coordinate cross-functional partners and track risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate launch-readiness discussions and capture decisions.
• Communicate updates and escalate barriers when needed.
• Support post-launch reviews and document lessons learned.
• Adapt practices to project size and needs.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Project Pre-Launch Specialist

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...

The Project Pre-Launch Specialist supports the planning and execution of launches across Vehicle Personalization, Ford Racing, Accessories, and diverse Marketing initiatives. As part of a newly created team, this role helps bring clarity, organization, and momentum to work involving multiple teams and stakeholders. The team’s operating model and the role’s specific responsibilities are evolving and will continue to be shaped by business needs. Working with cross-functional partners, the Project Pre-Launch Specialist helps define plans, track progress, surface risks and dependencies, and support launch readiness. The role calls for sound judgment, strong communication, and the ability to move work forward in a dynamic environment.

What you'll do...

• Support assigned programs and projects from early planning through launch and post-launch review.
• Partner with stakeholders to clarify objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, ownership, and measures of success.
• Build and maintain project plans, schedules, action logs, status reports, and other tools suited to the work.
• Engage cross-functional partners to align on responsibilities, dependencies, decisions, and handoffs.
• Track progress and highlight risks, issues, resource needs, and potential impacts to timing or scope.
• Plan and facilitate working sessions, reviews, and launch-readiness discussions; capture decisions and follow-up actions.
• Communicate timely, clear updates and elevate barriers or decisions that require attention.
• Help assess launch readiness by tracking relevant deliverables, approvals, communications, and operational handoffs.
• Support post-launch reviews by gathering feedback, documenting lessons learned, and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to the team’s developing practices, tools, reporting, and launch-management approach.
• Adapt project management practices to the size, complexity, and needs of each initiative.

You’ll have...

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, program/project management or other related field
• Experience supporting or managing projects, programs, product launches, marketing initiatives, or other cross-functional work.

Even better, you may have...

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance or Engineering
• Strong planning, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Ability to create clarity amid evolving requirements, changing priorities, and shared ownership.
• Good judgment in identifying risks, resolving gaps, and determining when to seek a decision or elevate an issue.
• Ability to synthesize information and communicate status, decisions, and next steps clearly.
• Comfortable working across functions and with partners who have different priorities and working styles.
• Proficiency with common project-planning, collaboration, and presentation tools.

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
• 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

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

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.