Senior Manager - Indirect Supply Chain Business Office
Ford, Inc
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Job summary
Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Global Indirect Supply Chain Business Office in Dearborn, MI. This hybrid role focuses on performance management, governance, and enterprise-wide transformation across global indirect spend, partnering with category leads, regional teams, and finance.
You will drive savings, standardization, automation, and execution discipline, unlocking indirect savings while scaling operations and improving transparency worldwide.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business or technical field.
- 7+ years of experience in supply chain, procurement, business operations, or transformation.
- 7+ years leading procurement or supply chain execution for complex industrial programs (batteries, powertrains, vehicles, facilities, or capital equipment).
- 7+ years of experience in performance management, process excellence, and governance.
- Strong analytical and financial acumen with a track record of delivering measurable business results.
- Experience leading large-scale operational and digital transformations.
- Ability to influence senior executives and drive change across global organizations.
- Demonstrated capability building scalable systems, standard work, and operating models.
- Strong communication, executive presentation, and leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global indirect performance management system.
- Own enterprise KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting.
- Establish indicators to measure savings, sourcing excellence, operational efficiency, resilience, and people performance.
- Translate business objectives into measurable initiatives and operating plans.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews with executive leadership.
- Drive accountability for target attainment across indirect teams.
- Develop global standard work across indirect supply chain.
- Establish governance frameworks, playbooks, and controls.
- Eliminate process variation across regions and categories.
- Create scalable operating models to improve consistency, quality, and speed.
- Lead continuous improvement using Lean and process optimization.
- Develop SLAs and performance standards for critical processes.
- Build and execute the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap.
- Identify opportunities to automate and digitize workflows.
- Lead deployment of AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions.
- Implement enterprise-wide programs that improve savings capture and productivity.
- Quantify value realization and drive organizational change management.
- Drive governance, knowledge management, and capability development.
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Job description
Dearborn, MI, United States (Hybrid)
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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.
The Ford Supply Chain team adds critical value to the entire organization. You’ll help us source the highest quality parts and services from around the globe while ensuring optimal cost and on-time delivery. You’ll also contribute to establishing a robust supply chain so that we can continually produce the vehicles our customers want.
In this position...
Lead the Global Indirect Supply Chain Business Office, serving as the central engine for performance management, operational excellence, governance, and transformation across the global indirect organization. This role is responsible for establishing/enhancing world‑class business processes, KPI management, work standards, operating rhythms, and enterprise‑wide transformation initiatives that improve savings, efficiency, compliance, and customer outcomes.
The Leader will partner closely with global category leaders, regional teams (with an initial focus on North America), finance, operations, technology, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable value through improved transparency, standardization, automation, and execution discipline. The position will play a critical role in unlocking the next generation of indirect savings while improving organizational effectiveness and scalability. The Leader will also direct Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs—including unit programs and vehicles—ensuring required facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are sourced on time and at or below established cost targets.
Why This Role Matters
The Global Indirect Supply Chain Business Office Leader will improve the operating system for the global indirect organization. By standardizing work, strengthening governance, improving visibility, and leading transformation, this leader will enable the organization to deliver greater savings, improved performance, enhanced compliance, and scalable growth while positioning Indirect Supply Chain as a strategic business partner.
What you'll do...
Strategy & Business Performance
- Lead the global indirect performance management system.
- Own enterprise KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting.
- Establish leading and lagging indicators to measure savings, sourcing excellence, operational efficiency, resilience, and people performance.
- Translate business objectives into measurable initiatives and annual operating plans.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews with executive leadership.
- Drive accountability for target attainment across all indirect teams.
Process Excellence & Standardization
- Develop and institutionalize global standard work across indirect supply chain.
- Establish governance frameworks, playbooks, operating procedures, and controls.
- Eliminate process variation across regions and categories.
- Create scalable operating models that improve consistency, quality, and speed.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and process optimization methods.
- Develop service level agreements and performance standards for critical processes.
Transformation & Value Creation
- Build and execute the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap.
- Identify opportunities to simplify work, automate activities, and digitize workflows.
- Lead deployment of AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions.
- Implement enterprise-wide programs that improve savings capture, sourcing effectiveness, and operational productivity.
- Establish mechanisms to quantify value realization and business impact.
- Drive organizational change management and capability adoption
Savings & Productivity Leadership
- Partner with category teams to identify and unlock incremental savings opportunities.
- Create transparency to sourcing pipelines, market testing, control towers, compliance, and spend management activities.
- Benchmark internal and external performance to identify improvement opportunities.
- Develop productivity frameworks and resource utilization metrics.
- Ensure savings reporting and value capture methodologies are consistent globally.
- Lead Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs, including batteries, powertrains, and vehicles.
- Integrate Indirect Supply Chain requirements into program timing, sourcing strategies, budgets, and launch plans.
- Ensure facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are sourced and available to support program milestones and production readiness.
- Drive cross‑functional issue resolution, supplier readiness, and execution against timing, cost, quality, and risk targets.
- Maintain visibility to program sourcing status, cost performance, risks, owners, and recovery actions.
- Deliver program requirements on time and at or below established cost targets.
Organizational Effectiveness
- Establish a global operating rhythm for indirect supply chain leadership.
- Coordinate priorities and resources across regions and categories.
- Lead governance forums, executive reviews, and strategic planning processes.
- Drive capability development, training, and knowledge management.
- Create a culture of accountability, transparency, and data‑driven decision making.
- Build future‑state organizational capabilities required for a world‑class indirect supply chain organization.
Success Measures
This role will be accountable for delivering measurable improvements in:
Area
Example Metrics
Cost & Value
Market testing, sourcing visibility, first-pass approvals
Operational Efficiency
Low/no-touch processing, cycle time reduction, automation adoption
Process Compliance & Resilience
Standard work adoption, SLA performance, governance adherence
Transformation
Benefits realization, digitization, AI deployment, process simplification
People & Capability
Skills and Capabilities:
Lead strategic transformation initiatives
PMO & Governance
Drive execution, governance, and accountability
Lead cross‑functional sourcing execution for facilities, equipment, supplies, and services
KPI & Performance Management
Own metrics, scorecards, and reporting
Design and implement global work standards
Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and operating models
You’ll have...
Minimum
- Bachelor's degree Business or technical related field.
- 7+ years of experience with proven leadership experience in supply chain, procurement, business operations, or transformation.
- 7+ years of experience leading procurement or supply chain execution for complex industrial programs, including batteries, powertrains, vehicles, manufacturing facilities, or capital equipment.
- 7+ years of experience with deep expertise in performance management, process excellence, and governance.
- Strong analytical and financial acumen with a track record of delivering measurable business results.
- Experience leading large-scale operational and digital transformations.
- Ability to influence senior executives and drive change across global organizations.
- Demonstrated capability building scalable systems, standard work, and operating models.
- Strong communication, executive presentation, and organizational leadership skills.
Even better, you may have...
Preferred
- Master's Degree
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 leadership level 5 and ranges from $141,700-$268,300.
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.
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- Job Identification 69893
- Job Category Supply Chain
- Degree Level Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- Job Schedule Full time
- Locations 20901 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI, 48124, US (Hybrid)
- Preferred Degree Bachelor of Business Administration
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