Director of Technical Program Management leading complex technology programs to transform Ford’s industrial ecosystem. Ensuring alignment across various engineering and manufacturing teams for seamless product delivery.
Responsibilities
Drive Strategic Orchestration: Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-year industrial technology programs. Ensure seamless alignment between IT Product Delivery Organizations (PDOs), Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to realize the comprehensive vision for Ford’s industrial ecosystem.
Architect Enterprise Governance: Establish and lead a robust cross-functional governance framework that bridges IT delivery with vehicle program, enterprise capabilities, and global plant launch milestones (L1–L3) ensuring executive visibility and accountability.
Strategic Roadmap Integration: Align program achievements with the overarching strategic roadmap, defining the development and deployment of process transformations and enabling technologies.
Champion Real-Time Insights: Oversee the development and maintenance of integrated Jira dashboards. Ensure these are synchronized with IT teams’ backlogs to provide leadership with real-time telemetry on program health and velocity.
Value-Driven PI Planning: Lead high-impact quarterly PI Planning cycles to define and drive specific value delivery, ensuring the team remains focused on the highest-priority business outcomes.
Proactive Risk Mitigation: Utilize strategic foresight to identify and resolve hurdles and roadblocks before they impact critical vehicle program milestones or plant launch windows.
Comprehensive RAID Management: Maintain a rigorous, focused management of the RAID log (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions), ensuring clear ownership and rapid resolution of impediments.
Fiscal Accountability: Execute full financial responsibility for the program, managing forecasts and actuals across the entire scope to ensure budget adherence and transparency.
Rigorous Scope Management: Lead the formal definition and tracking of program scope, maintaining a disciplined change log to prevent scope creep while ensuring flexibility for critical requirements.
Program Artifact Excellence: Ensure all program artifacts and documentation are maintained to the highest corporate standards for audit and lifecycle management.
Executive Storytelling & Influence: Prepare and deliver high-stakes executive updates and presentations, synthesizing complex operational data into clear strategic narratives regarding accomplishments, objectives, and roadmaps.
Transformational Change Management: Enable the organizational change management (OCM) required for successful implementation, ensuring technology shifts are met with high user adoption and operational readiness.
Collaborative KPI Management: Partner with stakeholders to ensure monthly metrics and KPIs are consolidated and reported according to corporate standards, driving a culture of continuous improvement.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Production, Systems, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
5+ years consistent track record, driving accountability and ownership with cross-functional teams
5+ years large-scale program management and cross-work stream integration experience that will include:
Expertise in financial and resource management (~$50+M budget)
Experience in handling governance reviews and issue resolutions at the executive (VP and C-level) leadership level
Ability to balance Program Management and Agile practices
5+ years of experience with Ford and/or Industrial domains such as Product Development, Manufacturing and Logistics, Supply Chain Planning or similar.
Benefits
Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.
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