Strategic Work Portfolio & Prioritization Supervisor

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves? 

What you'll do...

The Strategic Work Portfolio & Prioritization Supervisor is a pivotal leadership role, overseeing the strategic direction and operational integrity of the Enterprise Strategic Work Portfolio process. This position holds primary responsibility for leading crucial decision meetings within this strategic work management process, ensuring robust governance and decision-making. The Supervisor will lead dedicated workstreams focused on the critical integration of cycle plan, funding, and containability into the Enterprise Strategic Work Portfolio, and will spearhead efforts to align the cycle plan directly to the process.

Crucially, this role will also lead the workstreams around training, on-boarding, and prioritization within the Enterprise Strategic Work Portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment and efficient resource allocation, and enabling data-driven decision-making across all facets of its process.

This is a highly visible and influential role, requiring exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills to effectively engage stakeholders and users, lead cross-functional groups, and drive continuous process improvements. The Strategic Work Portfolio & Prioritization Supervisor is the ultimate steward of data integrity and process efficiency within the Enterprise Strategic Work Portfolio, directly impacting the Feature Strategy team and its partners by enabling informed, strategic decisions and highly efficient operations.

The ideal candidate is a visionary leader, highly organized, profoundly process-minded, proficient in advanced project management tools, and possesses a proven passion for complex problem-solving and driving organizational change.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Strategic Leadership of Chief & Director Level Decision Forums: Lead and facilitate the Strategic Work Portfolio’s key Chief & Director Level Decision Forum, ensuring effective governance, decision ratification, and alignment of technical changes with strategic objectives.
• Prioritization: Lead and manage the workstream dedicated to defining, refining, and implementing prioritization methodologies within the Strategic Work Portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and efficient resource allocation.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Champion and lead initiatives to enable robust data-driven decision-making across the Strategic Work Portfolio process, ensuring that key stakeholders have access to accurate, timely, and actionable insights.
• Cycle Plan, Funding, & Containability: Lead and manage the dedicated workstream responsible for integrating and operationalizing cycle plan, funding mechanisms, and containability requirements directly into the Strategic Work Portfolio.
• Executive Engagement: Represent the Strategic Work Portfolio process and its strategic initiatives in senior executive meetings, providing clear, concise updates, advocating for necessary resources, and influencing strategic decisions.
• Training & On-board: Train and on-board cross-functional groups and teams involved in UBL operations, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.

Additional responsibilities: 

• Advanced Data Analysis & Oversight: Oversee sophisticated analysis of Strategic Work Portfolio operations data to identify systemic trends, critical inefficiencies, and significant opportunities for strategic improvement across workflows and processes.
• Strategic Process Optimization: Proactively design, champion, and implement high-impact process improvements to significantly streamline operations, elevate data quality, reduce operational costs, and enhance overall productivity across various departments.
• Performance Tracking & Measurement: Establish, monitor, and report on key perf