Hybrid Executive Chair, Business Operations

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Executive Chair, Business Operations
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Executive Chair Business Operations providing project and administrative support at Ford. Managing sensitive communications and coordinating office operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects, meetings, travel, and special events for the Executive Chair and Chief of Staff.
• Prepare briefing materials and follow up on action items.
• Oversee OOEC budget, process purchase orders, expense reports, and payments.
• Perform Executive Assistant duties as backup, including calendar, travel, and correspondence.
• Handle confidential information and coordinate communications.
• Maintain office supplies, equipment, and office organization.
• Administer scholarship fund communications and recordkeeping.
• Project management support for key business projects.
• Support dynamic requirements of the office, with the ability to flex and react to changing work assignments and priorities across a broad spectrum of business areas.
• Use experience to recommend and implement smarter ways of working, processes, and habits.
• Leverage creative and administrative talents to accelerate modernization, including the ability to both lead and support key initiatives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience providing executive-level administrative support,
• Financial administrative experience
• Strong organizational, multitasking, and planning skills.
• Highly self-motivated
• Capability to build networks across multiple skill teams
• Skilled communicator with ability to influence (at all levels) through both written and verbal formats.
• Proactive nature to address issues with initiative
• Strong analytical skills
• Strategic thinking/problem-solving ability
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Experience with collaboration tools (e.g., Teams, SharePoint).
• Strong sense of ownership with the ability to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to maintain focus & drive results in a dynamic business environment.

Benefits

• 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.