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This position provides IT leadership, vision, expertise, and solutions to ensure integration with local business, dealers and IT. The position will identify customer needs that a product will fulfil, will articulate what success looks like for a product or solution and manage an agile team to turn that vision into a reality.

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• Provide Leadership and support to reporting Applications for Dealers to aid in the visualization and tools to display key performance indicators between dealers and local business.

• Innovate and iterate on PDO processes, lean practices, agile practices and share the learnings.

• Guides PDO teams to ensure program and/or project goal alignment with the company’s objectives through Demand and Value Management Services.

• Directs the development of the operational support strategy for the products.

• Develops budget and financial plans for programs.

• Ensures the appropriate use of product management and demand management tools, techniques, processes, and methods as Product Backlogs and capacity plans

• Ensures effective integration management throughout the lifecycle of the products

• Scan global environment for latest trends and news in policies, technologies, and tools.

• Provides governance and operations to manage product Stakeholders, Dealers IT Business and IT

• Builds strong relationships with business partners and senior executives. Including Dealers IT Managers, DMS’s representative, Local Business and IT

• Drives efforts to keep abreast of external and internal products, industry benchmarking, and other competitive information.

• Supports the change management strategy and process and ensures awareness of corrective actions to deliver value plans.

• Helps identify necessary resources and provides training on tools and techniques.

• Ensures engagement across functional teams: IT, Finance, Purchasing, Marketing, Sales, Service and any regional or global specific processes.

• Develops, implements, and reports performance and process metrics to enable IT decision making and mitigate and/or reduce risks.

• Establishes assessment roadmaps and optimization of security solutions.

• Be a visible technical leader that advocates for the Enterprise Technology Refresh program and for the importance of staying in the latest trends in technology

• Drive and lead technical decisions related to technologies used in FoM applications.

• Provide automation solutions for processes for IT and local business.

• Guides, coaches, influences, and manages business value realization for programs and/or projects.

• Further develop and deepen technical knowledge to share it back to IT.

Minimum qualifications

• S trong Knowledge on software development principles, agile methodologies and architecture (+ 3 years)

• Technical knowledge on:

Alteryx (+1 year) or Qlik Sense (+ 1 year)

• Good understanding of Web services, REST APIs, Google Cloud Platform, JSON. (+1 year)

• Experience leading an Agile team (+3 years)

• English proficiency (written and verbal)

• Knowledge on Financial processes to support project administration

Required skills

• Experience migrating and upgrading systems or platforms

• Leadership skills such as:

• Anticipates issues that may impact customer satisfaction, addressing them proactively

• Identifies lessons learned and challenges assumptions to allow for improvement

• Comfortable with and open to changing conditions, easily adapting to be successful when things are uncertain

• Generates new ideas; readily adopts new ways of working where benefits to the business can be demonstrated

• Prioritizes value-added activities that drive team and organization success

• Collaborates well with others from different skill teams, locations, etc.

• Networks and establishes connections across the enterprise to get work done

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Pega or another automation tool.

• Python

• HTML5

• SQL and Data manipulation

• Java

• Experience with DevSecOps and Security Standards

• Use of Dev Tools (GitHub, SonarQube, Tasktop, Rally, Fossa, Checkmark, Cycode, etc)

• Knowledge of NIST Standards, ISO 27001, OWASP, OAuth, Entra ID and/or other security software related standards and technologies

• Knowledge of latest programming languages, frameworks and techniques (Java Spring boot, Angular, Postgres DB, etc)

DISCLAIMER

Ford Motor Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, as we are committed with a diverse workforce, and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran and basis of disability.

Requisition ID : 31031