דרושים Product Manager Advanced Ev Digital Transformation ב-Ford ב-United States, Irvine

In this position...

• Lead the strategic development and implementation of long-term cost management and reduction programs, specifically targeting profitability for third-generation electric vehicles
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing to optimize cost of goods sold and inform critical product attribute and user experience decisions.
• Provide transparent financial reporting and deliver executive-level updates, including Board of Directors materials, to influence key strategic decisions for Ford's vehicle programs.

In this position...
The Vehicle Accessory Product Development Manager will be leading our dynamic team in designing, developing and delivering innovative accessory solutions. In this role, you will oversee the entire product lifecycle, from concept to production, ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality, functionality, and aesthetics. You will lead resource planning, development, validation planning and execution in production for a wide range of product.

The Vehicle Accessory Product Development Manager will be leading our dynamic team in designing, developing and delivering innovative accessory solutions. In this role, you will oversee the entire product lifecycle, from concept to production, ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality, functionality, and aesthetics. You will lead resource planning, development, validation planning and execution in production for a wide range of product.

In this position...
As a Technical Program Manager, you will continually grow and adapt your Program Management subject-matter knowledge and technical expertise to provide solutions and guidance that will enable us to have a holistic view of the progress, risks, and dependencies across our Advanced EV (ADVEV) Digital Transformation (ADT) team’s goals and program milestones. You will be working on a small, high-performing team with a mission to unlock product and engineering innovation with streamlined, automated, and collaborative solutions. This requires a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, and efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope.

What you’ll be able to do:

• Drive engineering teams towards containment and resolution of issues raised from design reviews, virtual builds, and build events to protect the program’s schedule to prototype build dates, start of production, and ongoing production
• Maintain supplier relationships in collaboration with Supply Chain team to ensure timely deliveries for build events
• Monitor work outputs and deliverables for potential systems and vehicle incompatibilities and opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration.
• Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified and proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are ongoing within relevant engineering teams
• Set agenda for key decisions to be made at each meeting to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks
• Support key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach the right conclusions

What you’ll be able to do:

● Develop first principles should cost tools together with engineering to provide

grounds up physics based minimum system or part cost

● Enable enterprise level optimization by providing the powertrain optimization teams

the above code based should cost tools to be integrated into the optimization plan

● The should cost tool you create will be used as a design input and significant lever in

obtaining superior commercial outcomes versus the competition.

● Develop unique prototype solutions that ensure sourcing leverage supports design

lock and production program timing

● Drive internal make vs buys studies with internal advanced manufacturing groups to

ensure optimum outcomes

● Understand schedule timing in great detail to enable the creation of creative

commercial agreements that will help meet Ford’s commercial and cost requirements

for the project

● Work with ADVEV GSM partners to redefine the purchasing software and tools that

are used to manage suppliers, part revisions, requirements, documentation,

agreements, etc.

● Own RFI and RFQ’s ensuring agreements, NDA, T erms and Conditions, etc. are

completed on time and meet or exceed program requirements.

● Identify and develop key commercial partnerships throughout all necessary levels of

supply in times of raw material scarcity, geopolitical events risk mitigation , etc.

● Foster a collaborative costing culture both internally with Engineering and externally

with supplier partners. All stake holders should be supportive of the process and

co-own delivery of cost outcomes.● Provide an expert knowledge and history of leading vendors and leading cost

competitive traction motor designs and supply chains while monitoring global trends

and technology roadmaps.