Global Business Planning Lead - Interior Systems & Raw Materials

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In this position... 

The Global Business Planning Lead serves as a key business partner to the Interior Systems & Raw Materials leadership team, helping translate organizational priorities into coordinated action, measurable results, and continuous improvement across the global organization.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

• Support delivery of Ford+ and Supply Chain transformation priorities across Interior Systems & Raw Materials, with a focus on operational excellence, simplification, and collaboration.

• Support the Global Business Manager with the organization’s operating rhythm, strategic planning, business reviews, executive communications, and cross-functional priorities.

• Lead cross-functional projects and business initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring alignment on objectives, timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables

• Coordinate strategic priorities and serve as a liaison among Purchasing leadership, the Supply Chain Strategy Office, Product Development, regional teams, and other key stakeholders.

• Lead governance for business performance reviews, including sourcing, cost, supplier, quality, delivery, and operational objectives.

• Monitor and report critical business risks, including supplier financial health, non-renewals, stop ships, contract expirations, commercial disputes, and other emerging issues.

• Develop concise leadership reporting that highlights high-priority issues, mitigation actions, risks, opportunities, owners, and required escalations.

• Drive process simplification by centralizing information, reducing redundant work, and maintaining SharePoint and other collaboration tools as reliable one-stop resources.

• Champion special projects such as sustainability, supplier and buyer data management, warranty reporting, systems initiatives, and other organizational priorities.

• Develop and maintain KPI reporting and executive summaries for sourcing, cost, supplier, and operational objectives; facilitate periodic reviews of risks, opportunities, and action plans.

• Support Supply Chain policy and procedure deployment by improving awareness and adoption of required processes, templates, tools, and best practices.

• Proactively identify barriers to business progress, recommend practical solutions, and help teams navigate systems and process issues.

• Coordinate change management, communications, training deployment, benchmarking, and knowledge-sharing activities for new tools, processes, and initiatives.

• Maintain organization charts, distribution lists, team contacts, and other core business-operating information.

• Champion continuous improvement that eliminates non-value-added work, improves employee experience, and strengthens innovation, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.

• Support supplier performance reviews and other cross-functional forums by coordinating stakeholders, schedules, materials, and action tracking.

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field of study

• 3-5+ years of relevant experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain, business operations, project management, or a related field. 

• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and business operations tools, including SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams

Even better, you may have...

• MBA preferred

• Experience with enterprise business systems is a plus

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, global, and collaborative environment. 

• Strong organization, project management, planning, and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. 

• Ability to translate strategic direction into clear actions, governance, reporting, and consistent execution. 

• Strong emotional intelligence, relationship-building skills, and organizational awareness across global and cross-functional teams. 

• Resourceful, detail-oriented, and comfortable recommending solutions when information or direction is ambiguous. 

• Strategic and growth mindset with a willingness to challenge existing processes and champion change. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex information for leadership and broader audiences. 

• Understanding of business operations, supply chain, procurement, sourcing, or related business processes. 

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and data-management capabilities. 

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. 

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

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300-$124,500.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

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.

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