Senior Specialist, Strategic Deployment & Transformation Roadmap

Ford-Motor-Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave and back-up care

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

The Senior Specialist, Strategic Deployment & Transformation Roadmap at Ford Motor Company leads the deployment plan for Lean Product Development transformation and partners with executives to build the business case, securing leadership commitment across global teams.

You will translate complex capabilities into data-driven narratives, design executive presentations, model ROI, and track transformation impacts against financial targets while coordinating across regions to align local plans with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in corporate strategy, financial analysis, large-scale program management, or organizational design.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels to embrace new operational paradigms.
• Exceptional business presentation skills and data-driven storytelling with senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Directly lead conversations and secure cross-functional commitment from Senior Leaders.
• Govern end-to-end executive filing process for C-suite reviews.
• Design executive-level presentations translating capabilities into strategic alignment.
• Conduct advanced business case modeling showing ROI, cost savings, and revenue enablers.
• Track transformation impacts against financial targets and value realization metrics.
• Architect cohesive strategic bundles to enable deployment of Lean Product Definition solutions.
• Act as central integration point across global regions ensuring alignment of local plans with enterprise strategy.

Skills

Executive storytelling

Stakeholder management

Executive presentation

Corporate strategy

Financial analysis

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Business/Economics

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

In this position...

The Senior Specialist, Strategic Deployment & Transformation Roadmap is a highly strategic individual contributor responsible for driving the deployment plan and executive alignment for our Lean Product Development (LPD) business transformation. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role serves as a prime consultant to executive management. This individual will construct the overarching business case, orchestrate global stakeholder alignment, and lead pivotal conversations with Senior Leaders - translating complex transformation capabilities into compelling, data-driven executive narratives that secure leadership commitment and drive enterprise-wide adoption.

What you'll do...

• Directly lead conversations and facilitate high-impact socialization sessions with Senior Leaders and global stakeholders. Proactively navigate organizational resistance, anticipate executive questions, and secure cross-functional commitment to the Lean PD approach prior to formal reviews.
• Govern the end-to-end executive filing process, coordinating and synthesizing complex content from across diverse technical and business teams into a cohesive narrative for C-suite and senior leadership reviews.
• Design and build premier executive-level presentations that effectively translate abstract technical capabilities and deployment bundles into clear demonstrations of alignment with the company's forward-looking strategy.
• Conduct comprehensive, advanced business case modeling that accurately reflects the potential ROI, cost savings, and revenue enablers of the transformation project.
• Continuously track and report transformation impacts against the corporate income statement, ensuring deployment roadmaps are strictly tied to financial targets and value realization metrics.
• Architect cohesive 'strategic bundles' of capabilities, processes, and tools that enable the incremental and successful deployment of the Live Product Definition solution.
• Act as the central integration point across global regions, ensuring localized execution plans align with the overarching enterprise LPD deployment strategy.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field required. MBA or advanced degree is highly preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate strategy, financial analysis, large-scale program management, or organizational design. Proven experience playing a pivotal role in complex business transformation projects, ideally with a background spanning multiple industries, is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated courage and ability to tactfully challenge the status quo, overcome organizational inertia, and influence stakeholders at all levels to embrace new operational paradigms.
• Exceptional business presentation skills and a mastery of data-driven storytelling. Proven ability to confidently lead discussions, interface with senior executives, and distill highly complex, multi-dimensional program data and financial models into clear, actionable, and persuasive insights.
• Deep understanding of corporate finance principles, income statements, and enterprise strategy, with the ability to connect operational changes directly to bottom-line ROI and value realization.
• Highly resilient and capable of operating effectively in ambiguous environments. Proven ability to manage high-pressure situations and deliver rapid-turnaround executive requests without compromising quality or accuracy.
• Demonstrated capability to work independently, exercising significant latitude and ingenuity to determine the strategic approach for highly abstract and complex organizational challenges.

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 5 to salary grade 8 and ranges from $65,100-166,200.
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.