<p>Ford is undertaking a significant transformation of the Industrial System Platform.</p> <p>The Industrial System IT team leads the digital transformation of engineering and manufacturing to enable Ford to deliver innovative, high-quality products and services to customers. Ford is launching a full lifecycle, end-to-end initiative to modernize how products are defined, engineered and manufactured.</p> <ul> <li>Portfolio Financial planner: In this position you will be able to lead the Demand management process across the portfolio. Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting. </li><li>Financial Roadmap Planning: Develop and maintain a detailed financial roadmap, working closely with product owners and financial planners to ensure alignment with business goals and prioritized initiatives. </li><li>Manage financial commitments, cost of investment & operating expense across PD-IT. Correspond with PD-IT planners to understand spend plan and variances. Assess confidence of spend and predict financial gaps. </li><li>Supplier management, vendor Statement of work management, incl writing SOW's, one pagers, planning engagement type and executing the engagement start to finish. Supporting audits to ensure compliance. </li><li>Manage the plan for sourcing strategy and maintain program resource mgmt., Aligning with ITBO targets and managing sourcing strategy plans across all product groups. </li><li>Technical Product Integration: effectively present and communicate delivery plans, statuses, risks and key decisions within product teams and with Senior Management on a regular basis. Manage the demand and coordinate changes through system of delivery. </li><li>Manage and coordinate dependencies with internal and external stakeholders. Balance multiple projects to critical path, providing regular milestone updates and risk assessments to stakeholders and Senior Management </li><li>Assist in new process creation and roll-out </li><li>Provide guidance to product teams on agile ceremonies, best practices, and implementation </li><li>Help the product lead define and articulate project strategy and objectives, scope, and business requirements </li><li>Think creatively to make recommendations regarding execution strategies and potential solutions </li><li>Identify, research, analyze and manage risks and interdependencies within projects/systems/resources, and formulate plausible solutions and contingency plans in consultation with stakeholders and Senior Management </li></ul> <p>Ford is undertaking a significant transformation of the Industrial System Platform. The Industrial System IT team leads the digital transformation of engineering and manufacturing to enable Ford to deliver innovative, high-quality products and services to customers. Ford is launching a full lifecycle, end-to-end initiative to modernize how products are defined, engineered and manufactured. This position will provide the portfolio level integration across multiple products and projects, coordinate value stream mapping, facilitate cross team PI planning, ensure adherence to financial planning and reporting requirements, coordinate allocation of capacity across Ford/Agency and Purchase service engagements.</p> <ul> <li>Lead the development of an integrated PD IT cycle plan for our budgets YOY </li><li>Coordinate the ideation & roll out of process for demand planning and meeting the ITBO process timelines. </li><li>Establish business value for prioritized investments </li><li>Conduct cross product line PI planning events </li><li>Handle formal scope definition, KPI identification & tracking and change log </li><li>Balance demand & capacity allocation across the PD IT Portfolio </li><li>Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting </li><li>Maintain supplier contracts, follow ITBO process guidelines to ensure our engagements are compliant and manage sourcing strategies end to end. </li><li>Lead the development of an integrated PD IT cycle plan for our budgets YOY </li><li>Coordinate the ideation & roll out of process for demand planning and meeting the ITBO process timelines. </li><li>Establish business value for prioritized investments </li><li>Conduct cross product line PI planning events </li><li>Handle formal scope definition, KPI identification & tracking and change log </li><li>Balance demand & capacity allocation across the PD IT Portfolio </li><li>Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting </li><li>Maintain supplier contracts, follow ITBO process guidelines to ensure our engagements are compliant and manage sourcing strategies end to end. </li></ul>