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This position will lead a team to manage Material Cost over the lifecycle of the assigned vehicle portfolio.  Working hand-in-hand with the Vehicle Program Director, Chief Program Engineers, and their program leads the objective is to maintain a competitive material cost across the different model years in order to achieve and maintain the segment EBIT margin.

You'll have... 

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business or Finance10+ years experience in Automotive Product DevelopmentTeam Lead Experience 

 

Even better, you may have...

Experience or certification in Systems Engineering5+ years experience in analyzing Competitive Automotive DesignsMBA or experience with Automotive financial income statements

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 coverageFlexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and moreFamily building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and moreVehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leasesTuition assistanceEstablished and active employee resource groupsPaid time off for individual and team community serviceA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s DayPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. 

This position is a leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: New Hire Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. 

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Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid 

What you'll do...

Advocate for Cost Culture across the company, with emphasis on the four principles: Don't Over-Design, Don't Over-Content, Don't Over-Pay and the Best Part is No PartAttend and support Program forums such as the PST, CPE DF, Finance PAT to represent the Material Cost attributePrepare for and Conduct Cost Loop workshops in the early phases of program development to determine an efficient cost status by commodity and part level details that support the EBIT Target Income Statement for cost and target upload into FEDE.Investigate and close out material cost opportunities coming from the Cost Loop workshops, working to optimize cost using a Systems approach and to fill a program funnelUtilize the suite of digital ecosystem tools managed by Global Total Cost to document efficient cost start points, physical content and sourcing changes, competitive benchmarks, Optimal Cost Estimates, etc.Leverage in-cycle cost reduction ideas in CRID and gain agreement to implement where the business case makes the most sense.  Conversely, Push ideas from Program Status back into in-cycle incorporation where earlier incorporation makes sense.Monitor competitive benchmarking globally and leverage observations and discoveries to challenge Ford's content or requirements