Product Transformation Lead

Description

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers our communities and our families. Youll 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.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If youre looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape enhance the customer experience and improve peoples lives this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position...

The Enterprise Platform Engineering & Operations (EPEO) organization is transforming how it plans prioritizes funds and delivers value. As part of this journey EPEO is evolving from a platform-centric operating model toward a more product-centric approach focused on outcomes customer value strategic alignment and organizational effectiveness.

The team is seeking a Product Transformation Lead to help drive this transformation. This role will support EPEO strategic planning organizational OKRs portfolio planning product transformation and Center of Excellence initiatives. The successful candidate will partner with leaders and teams across EPEO to improve how work is planned aligned governed measured and delivered.

This opportunity is well suited for someone who enjoys connecting strategy to execution improving operating models and ways of working facilitating organizational change and helping leaders make informed investment and prioritization decisions.

What youll do...

Portfolio Planning & Strategy

• Lead and facilitate portfolio planning cycles quarterly planning activities roadmap development and organizational rhythms that improve planning predictability reduce reactive work and support strategic decision-making investment alignment and transformation objectives.
• Develop portfolio reporting planning artifacts executive presentations dashboards and decision-support materials that provide visibility into portfolio health capacity investment allocation product ownership and organizational performance.
• Analyze portfolio health capacity dependencies risks value delivery workforce allocation product and platform ownership and investment trends to identify insights opportunities and recommendations for leadership.
• Facilitate portfolio investment analysis prioritization discussions scenario planning and tradeoff evaluations to help leaders align resources funding and capacity to strategic outcomes.
• Establish maintain and continuously improve portfolio planning roadmap governance and operating model artifacts to support organizational alignment transparency and decision-making.
• Support the development of organizational visibility and planning capabilities including team-to-product alignment workforce capacity cost transparency and investment management.

OKR Planning & Alignment

• Facilitate organization-wide OKR planning alignment and continuous improvement activities to strengthen the connection between strategy portfolio investments and measurable business outcomes.
• Facilitate planning workshops portfolio reviews leadership alignment sessions and transformation discussions to build consensus identify opportunities and drive organizational alignment.
• Partner with leaders to define measurable objectives and key results that align strategic priorities portfolio investments and expected business outcomes.
• Develop outcome-based reporting analytics and insights that help leaders measure progress evaluate value delivery identify risks and make informed strategic adjustments.
• Champion outcome-based planning practices across EPEO by coaching teams sharing best practices developing guidance and helping leaders connect investments execution and measurable outcomes.

Product Transformation & Operating Model

• Help define plan and execute EPEOs platform-to-product transformation by assessing current-state capabilities identifying future-state operating model needs and developing recommendations roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Help define design and implement future-state operating model capabilities and ways of working including portfolio planning product ownership team structures capacity visibility governance collaboration models and outcome-based delivery practices.
• Develop and evolve product management product operations portfolio planning and transformation playbooks frameworks standards and best practices that support EPEOs long-term operating model evolution.
• Research evaluate and recommend industry-leading practices frameworks technologies and operating model approaches that improve portfolio management product delivery organizational effectiveness and business outcomes.
• Develop and support transformation communications training coaching and adoption strategies that help leaders and teams successfully implement new planning practices operating model capabilities and ways of working.
• Assess organizational capabilities and recommend training coaching consulting tools and capability-building investments that support EPEOs transformation operating model evolution and long-term organizational effectiveness.

Center of Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Help establish and evolve portfolio management planning product management Agile and tooling standards that improve organizational alignment planning effectiveness delivery visibility and business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain templates playbooks guidance frameworks and best practices that improve planning quality execution consistency organizational transparency and adoption of portfolio and product management practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning effectiveness organizational visibility governance operating model maturity workforce transparency and execution consistency through data-driven analysis and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Decision Support

• Build trusted partnerships with leaders teams and stakeholders across EPEO to improve alignment influence decision-making and accelerate organizational planning transformation and delivery outcomes.
• Facilitate communication alignment and shared understanding between leadership product teams platform teams and stakeholders to improve planning prioritization transparency and execution outcomes.
• Partner in executive planning sessions strategy discussions portfolio reviews governance forums and transformation workshops by providing facilitation analysis recommendations and decision-support materials.
• Provide data-driven insights recommendations and strategic options that help leaders make informed decisions regarding investments priorities organizational design operating model evolution and value delivery.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in Business Information Technology Engineering Organizational Leadership or a related discipline or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of experience in portfolio management product management strategy business transformation consulting product operations or PMO leadership roles.
• Experience facilitating planning prioritization strategy or governance discussions across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical problem-solving communication and presentation skills.
• Experience using portfolio management planning collaboration and reporting tools such as Jira Microsoft 365 Power BI Tableau Planview Azure DevOps or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations executive-level communications presentations and strategic decision-support materials for senior leaders.

Even better you may have...

• Experience with OKRs outcome-based planning or strategic planning processes.
• Experience supporting portfolio management portfolio governance or investment planning.
• Experience in product operations product management product strategy organizational transformation operating model transformation or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience or familiarity with outcome-based planning product-centric operating models organizational design product management practices or product transformation initiatives.

• Experience facilitating workshops strategic planning sessions portfolio reviews OKR planning activities or organizational transformation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Experience supporting agile-at-scale product-centric or organizational transformation initiatives using frameworks such as LeSS SAFe Product Operating Model Team Topologies or similar approaches.
• Experience with portfolio analytics capacity planning workforce planning financial management cost allocation or organizational visibility initiatives used to support strategic investment and planning decisions.
• Familiarity with emerging portfolio and product management capabilities including Atlassian Strategy Collection Teamwork Collection enterprise planning work graph and cross-team alignment concepts.
• Experience operating in large complex organizations with multiple stakeholder groups competing priorities and enterprise-scale planning transformation or governance activities.
• Relevant certifications and/or demonstrated experience in Product Management Product Operations Agile LeSS SAFe Strategy PMP Team Topologies OKRs or related disciplines.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 Years Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7 salary grade 8 and ranges from $86600-$166200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

*Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: New Hire Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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