Ford PD Integration Product Manager 

United States, Michigan, Dearborn 

883924398

Ford is undertaking a significant transformation of the Industrial System Platform.

• 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