Hybrid Transformation Manager

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Transformation Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $141,700 - $268,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Transformation Manager driving enterprise transformation objectives while orchestrating complex workstreams at Ford Motor Credit. Ensuring alignment across teams and delivery of key business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Program Integration and Alignment: Orchestrate delivery across multiple workstreams and ARTs, ensuring alignment to enterprise transformation priorities and sequencing of key deliverables.
• Execution Oversight and Outcome Delivery: Monitor and drive execution against program milestones and PI objectives, ensuring delivery is on time, within scope, and aligned to expected business outcomes.
• Cross-Workstream and Cross-ART Dependency Management: Identify, manage, and resolve interdependencies, risks, issues and constraints across workstreams and ARTs, escalating as needed to maintain program momentum.
• Executive Reporting and Insights: Develop and own rollup reporting and performance scorecards, translating complex delivery data into clear, concise, and actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Stakeholder Leadership and Communication: Serve as a key liaison between Workstream DRIs/Project Managers, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Program Leadership, and Transformation Office functions (Governance, Organizational Change Management), ensuring alignment and effective decision-making.
• Governance and Execution Discipline: Reinforce consistent program governance and execution standards, leveraging SAFe constructs (e.g., PI objectives, milestones) to enable alignment and transparency.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify systemic delivery challenges and drive improvements across workstreams and ARTs to enhance execution effectiveness and program outcomes.
• Collaboration and Teaming: Partner with peer Transformation Managers to manage cross-program dependencies and provide support as needed, fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.

Requirements

• 3 + years proven experience leading large-scale, complex programs with multiple interdependent workstreams and/or Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
• Strong experience operating within a **Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)** environment, with the ability to translate Agile execution into program-level outcomes and insights.
• **Preferred experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) and/or Scrum Master**, with demonstrated progression into program or transformation leadership roles.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at both **program and executive levels**, including governance, reporting, and stakeholder alignment.
• Expertise in **dependency management, integrated planning, and risk/issue mitigation** across complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into **clear, executive-ready messaging**.
• Proven ability to drive accountability and results across teams without direct authority.
• Experience with Agile and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, MS Project).

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.