Consider This – Have you looked at the top corporate Sustainability and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) priorities, and heard about how governments across the world are enforcing new regulations to help improve the lives of people we impact and the world we live in? As a result, companies across many industries have realized that they cannot rely on old practices, processes, and playbooks, and identified a need to have better (i.e., digitized, automated, etc.) systems to provide visibility and confidence that the suppliers are managing their sustainability and ESG risks. Want to participate and help?

As a key contributor to the Supply Chain Sustainability Digitization workstream, you can implement transformative Ford – Supplier collaboration efforts. Ford is seeking visionary, skilled, and ambitious professionals to help us create innovative and scalable processes and solutions to keep enterprise operations humming smoothly. Join us and deliver intuitive, enjoyable, and trusted experiences.

Looking for a Technical Product Manager to be part of Supply Chain Sustainability IT team. This individual will be / deliver:

• Rapid Learning: Be passionate about learning new concepts (e.g., business process flows, functional requirements, data attributes, etc.) and starting to define and lead a new space very quickly. Embrace ambiguity and uncertainty as a growth opportunity instead of being fazed by it.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (IT, Business and SaaS vendor) to deliver the implementation of SACC tool, as per the solution design, to help track and manage ESG Audit and Compliance as well as compliance with UFLPA (Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act) of our suppliers.

• Integration: Deliver integrations across multiple systems including internal and third-party tool(s) used by Ford and its supply base. Design and create actionable plan to move solution design to implementation.

• Communication: Clearly communicate vision, strategy, workplan and implementation status to cross functional teams, senior leaders, and stakeholders to gain alignment. Grow subject matter expertise, provide guidance to other members on the team and detail our capabilities to help educate partners.

• Live and breathe Agile: Lead all Agile ceremonies and activities for the team, to help define the work to be done, improve team process, and align with defined objectives. Ensure effective usage of Rally and derive meaningful insights from Rally like velocity of team, throughput etc. to enable the team to go further. Partner with Product Owners and develop and as required execute test scenarios at various levels (functional, user acceptance) within Agile Framework. Facilitate adoption of relevant Ford processes, employ/champion Agile culture, best practices, processes, and techniques whenever possible.

On a typical ‘day in the life’ of this role, this individual will:

• Drive requirements clarity with Internal and External Teams, i.e., Product Owner, Business Owner, Vendor, internal Product, Data, Architecture & Integration teams.

• Coordinate with enterprise and application architects to validate solution designs with a focus on the stability, scalability, and reliability of the product.

• Create and prioritize a backlog of stories to help build new features with a definition of ready and done.

• Collaborate with internal and external peers to define, block / unblock or split stories.

• Lead Agile ceremonies to define work to be done, advance and deliver work, improve team process, etc.

• Validate complete stories by gathering detailed metrics for feedback when necessary.

• Participate in governance activities to keep cross-functional leadership aligned. Escalate as needed.

• Identify risks & implement mitigation / contingency plans, focused on early mitigation / elimination of risk.

• Track upcoming change requests & requirements to update test case(s) & validate specific requirements.

• Partner with Product Owner and develop / execute test scenarios at various levels (functional, UAT, etc.)

• Participate in triage and debugging sessions for integration or relevant issues.

• Grow subject matter expertise, provide guidance and education to other team members and stakeholders.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Management (TPM) including experience in managing and launching new software products and applications.

• 3+ years of experience in program and / or project management on medium to large-scale projects.

• 3+ years of experience in software delivery using Agile project management software such Jira or Rally including defining and prioritizing product features and working with backlog management tools.

• 3+ years of experience in managing business and user requirements, translating business requirements into technical requirements and user stories, tracking the delivery process, and delivering SIT/UAT.

• Proven ability to learn and become productive in new concepts and spaces quickly.

• Proactive attitude and not afraid to ask question and ability to operate in an ambiguous environment.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, building trust and driving success across skill teams (business and product) and leadership levels.

• Proven and demonstrable experience in advancing innovation in a corporate context through Design Thinking processes. Virtual and in-person group facilitation experience. Ability to synthesize and visualize complex, ambiguous, or even conflicting concepts and translate them into a list of use-cases or an action plan for the team or organization. Ability to lead through influence.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams for deliverables and timing.

• Good organizational and time management skills. High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

• Willing to work on a highly collaborative team fulfilling different roles and fill gaps.

Nice-to-Have Skills/Experience:

• Master’s degree in computer science, IT, or business administration

• Strong global business acumen with a passion for Sustainability and Circular Economy.

• Curiosity towards new technologies. Experience in vendor / tool benchmarking.

• Experience in cloud based development and operations (Azure/AWS/GCP/PCF)

• Experience working with CI/CD systems (e.g., Gitlab / Jenkins)

• Experience working with external partners, including industry experts & consortiums, for development and complex integration of industry standards and multi-party solutions.

• Exposure to automated testing concepts, tools, and frameworks

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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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 a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary (https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-2.pdf)

This position is a salary grade 7or 8 .

This position is a range of salary grades 7or 8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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