Strategy Manager

Ford-Motor-Company; Allen Park (MI); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Family care benefits

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company’s Ford Racing division seeks a Strategy Manager to serve as a go-to thought partner, delivering the Ford Racing Strategy by building capabilities across the business. This is an influence-first, individual-contributor role in a small, agile, high‑performance team with a hybrid work model.

You will generate hypotheses, structure problems, conduct analyses, synthesize insights, and present persuasive recommendations to Ford Performance leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; motorsports interest appreciated.
• Proven thought leadership and ability to solve problems at global scale.
• Strong communication and persuasion skills, both written and verbal.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word is essential.

Responsibilities

• Hypotheses generation: identify issues across assigned work streams with strategy leadership and stakeholders.
• Structuring and solving the problem: choose efficient approaches leveraging deep expertise.
• Conducting analyses: ensure high-quality analyses using leading-edge techniques.
• Synthesis and generating recommendations: develop insights and prioritize conclusions with sound recommendations.
• Effective communication: persuasively present findings to Ford Performance leadership and Steering Team.
• Apprenticeship and leadership: balance work streams, coach teammates, model Ford+ behaviors.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or MBA

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.

Racing is where our story began.

In 1901, Henry Ford climbed into a car he built himself—'Sweepstakes'—and beat America's most famous driver. He wasn't a racer, but he had to win. He did. Ford Motor Company was born from that victory.

That fighting spirit lives on in Ford Racing today. We're the engineers, strategists, and competitors who bring Ford's track-tested edge into every vehicle we build. Every track, every stage, every proving ground—that's where we prove ourselves.

The result: one of the world's most iconic brands, legendary nameplates, and a team unmatched in the industry.

Our mantra: Race to win, engineer to lead.

If you're a competitor, innovator, or performance obsessive, Ford Racing is where you belong. Help us write the next chapter.

In this position...

• The Ford Racing Strategy Manager will be the go-to thought partner to help deliver the Ford Racing Strategy via building necessary capabilities spanning the business.
• They will be an influence-first leader who is able to collaborate and work with stakeholders within and beyond Ford Racing.
• This role will be an individual contributor working on a small, agile, high-performance team.

What you'll do...

• Hypotheses generation: Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire problem in the assigned work stream(s), working with strategy leadership, general management of the business and/or stakeholders
• Structuring and solving the problem: Determine most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems, taking advantage of the organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections. This includes leveraging one’s networks of deep expertise
• Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team (either directly or indirectly) in applying leading edge techniques; Ensures team develops robust fact base, creatively addressing data constraints as appropriate. Always tests first principles of business
• Synthesis and generating recommendations: Develop compelling insights from complex analysis. Synthesize complex analysis with an ability to draw out and prioritize key conclusions and independently develop sound recommendations
• Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written. A comfort writing and delivery persuasive recommendations to the Ford Performance leadership and the Steering Team is critical
• Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a ‘player-coach’ that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables (when possible); Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; practice situational leadership coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise
• Successful candidates will be able to balance contributing to multiple topics simultaneously with support both from the strategy lead and a business analyst. Topics may range from Go-To-Market strategy, Experiences strategy, organization development and performance optimization, long-term business planning, market intelligence, etc.

You'll have...

• Bachelors Degree
• Strong interest in motorsports and performance vehicles, a deep passion for all things auto
• A leader within Ford with demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in problem solving
• A comfort with ambiguity and a desire to build (organizations, develop people, etc.)
• Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization
• Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems
• Understand the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must
• Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues
• Love teaching and mentoring colleagues
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), Word (white papers) is a must

Even better, you may have...

• Masters Degree or MBA from a top institution
• Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects
• Prior experience in a professional services firm is a plus but not required
• Technical background with advanced analytics

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 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

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. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.