Associate Director, Corporate Strategy
- Lead and develop a team of diverse individuals and effectively leverage their expertise
- Project management: Lead the coordination of project engagements to organize resources and prioritize work to hit deliverables as a team in a time-constrained environment
- Hypotheses generation: Lead the identification of issues and form hypotheses, working with strategy leadership and/or stakeholders
- Structuring and solving the problem: Determines most efficient and effective approach to solving complex problems to guide the team, taking advantage of the strategy organization's existing knowledge, beyond immediate connections
- Conducting analyses: Ensures high quality and accurate analysis; Selects the most effective analytical approaches and guides team in applying leading-edge techniques; Reviews team analysis to ensure development of a robust fact base and creatively addressing data constraints
- Synthesis and generating recommendations: Lead the team in developing insights and prioritizing key conclusions; develop a practical set of recommendations based on impact and ease of implementation
- Effective communication and persuasion: Demonstrate strong influencing skills with executive-level stakeholders by effectively communicating findings, conclusions, and recommendations both verbally and written
- Apprenticeship and leadership: Be a ‘player-coach’ that can effectively break down the problem into discrete workstreams and balance doing vs. delegation to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables; Model the Ford+ behaviors and values; practice situational leadership, coaching team members on the strategy toolkit and building domain expertise
- Bachelor’s degree
- Demonstrated thought leadership and subject matter expertise in your chosen domain.
- Minimum 10 years of experience (or Master’s Degree and 7-10 years of experience) in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to structure/solve problems on your own projects and for the broader team.
- Proven experience leading high-impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization.
- Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving problems.
- Understanding the fundamentals of the automotive industry dynamics, trends, company operations, and managerial accounting is a must.
- Track record of challenging the status quo and bringing creative solutions to complex issues.
- Love teaching and mentoring colleagues.
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), Word (white papers).
- MBA preferred.
- Prior experience leading strategy projects or large-scale programs/projects at a global scale.
- Prior experience in a professional services firm (e.g., consulting, private equity, investment banking).
- Technical background with advanced data analytics experience.
- 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.
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