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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.

+ **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.

+ 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.

+ 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.

+ 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.

+ Manage the plan for sourcing strategy and maintain program resource mgmt., Aligning with ITBO targets and managing sourcing strategy plans across all product groups.

+ **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.

+ 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

+ Assist in new process creation and roll-out

+ Provide guidance to product teams on agile ceremonies, best practices, and implementation

+ Help the product lead define and articulate project strategy and objectives, scope, and business requirements

+ Think creatively to make recommendations regarding execution strategies and potential solutions

+ 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

+ Lead the development of an integrated PD IT cycle plan for our budgets YOY

+ Coordinate the ideation & roll out of process for demand planning and meeting the ITBO process timelines.

+ Establish business value for prioritized investments

+ Conduct cross product line PI planning events

+ Handle formal scope definition, KPI identification & tracking and change log

+ Balance demand & capacity allocation across the PD IT Portfolio

+ Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting

+ Maintain supplier contracts, follow ITBO process guidelines to ensure our engagements are compliant and manage sourcing strategies end to end.

+ Bachelors in related field or work experience equivalent.

+ 7+ years consistent track record driving objective accountability and ownership within cross functional teams

+ 5+ years Scaled Agile System of Delivery

+ 7+ years Low cost Sourcing experience

+ 7+ years’ experience with supplier/purchase service sourcing

+ Understanding of Product Driven System of Delivery

+ Strong technical product management discipline

+ Politically savvy navigating the organization to achieve outcomes

+ Proven ability to lead and empower team members

+ Strong organizational and multi-tasking abilities

+ Knowledge of engineering processes i.e., GPDS

+ Resourceful and creative.

+ Strong knowledge of tools, ERP Financial tools, NICUS, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Indepth knowledge of MS Excel.

**Requisition ID** : 48525