Product Manager - Environmental and Safety Compliance

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Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are

This job is a U.S. based HYBRID postion and requires a minimum of 4 days onsite at the Dearborn MI office.

Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

You will be part of a Global Team that is based across, NA, UK, Germany and India. The Product Managers work with the Capability Delivery Team leads to ensure that business value is understood and prioritised across the PDO. E&SC is part of ISIST (Industrial Systems IT) and the office space will be PDC. (Product Design Center)

The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for leading the product management relating to development of new weight tools and global alignment. Initially focussed on the development aspect of weight, but developing the product roadmap and capability to include ‘In-Service’ weight. The key customer for Design weight are based in NA at AEC.

They will be required to work with EA and business functions to get the global alignment across all functions, as well as developing the data roadmap to leverage EDP. They will be expected to also partner on other products to ensure there is an understanding of how various processes are creating a requirement for greater Connected Compliance.
 

• Product Vision & Strategy: Develop, articulate, and champion a compelling long-term product vision and strategy based on in-depth market analysis, customer research, and competitive intelligence.
• Market Leadership: Serve as the internal expert on our market, customers, and competitors. Identify and analyse market trends to uncover new opportunities and threats.
• Strategic Roadmap: Own and manage the high-level product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives and features that deliver maximum value to our customers and drive key business outcomes ensuring alignment to future regulation, potentially 5+ years ahead.
• Product Planning & Development: Create and present data-driven business cases for new product initiatives, securing buy-in from executive leadership and key stakeholders across the organization, whilst ensuring Risks & Issues are managed.
• Go-to-Market Collaboration: Partner closely with customer teams to define and execute effective go-to-market strategies, ensuring successful product launches and adoption through Agile practices.
• Performance Analysis: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the product, using this data to inform strategic decisions.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the central communication hub for the product, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned on the product's direction and progress through communications and governance.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering field, Business
• 3+ years of experience defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs
• 2+ years working with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban)
• 4+ years with progressive responsibilities in software development

Preferred qualifications:

• Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making.
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Previous success delivering a product to market with an Agile development team, and ongoing development and support of production applications.
• Curious about new technologies and exhibit a strong desire to learn.
• Practice in Lean/Lean Startup thinking, human-centered product development and Agile Software development
• Have exposure to lightweight product development methods such as user story mapping and/ or rapid prototyping
• 5+ years of Product Management experience, with duties including but not limited to:
• Google Cloud Fundamentals Certifications (or at least evidence of training and preparation for certification)
• Experience of Vehicle Development Lifecycle
• Experience of Manufacturing Process and BOM management
• Exposure to Regulatory processes
   

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, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

This position is a salary grade 8.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP2

This job is a U.S. based HYBRID postion and requires a minimum of 4 days onsite at the Dearborn MI office.

Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

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