The posting
Job Description
Racing is where our story began.
In 1901, Henry Ford climbed into a car he built himself—"Sweepstakes"—and beat America's most famous driver. He wasn't a racer, but he had to win. He did. Ford Motor Company was born from that victory.
That fighting spirit lives on in Ford Racing today. We're the engineers, strategists, and competitors who bring Ford's track-tested edge into every vehicle we build. Every track, every stage, every proving ground—that's where we prove ourselves.
The result: one of the world's most iconic brands, legendary nameplates, and a team unmatched in the industry.
Our mantra: Race to win, engineer to lead.
If you're a competitor, innovator, or performance obsessive, Ford Racing is where you belong. Help us write the next chapter.
In this position...
Ford Racing’s Powertrain Business Manager supports Powertrain Motorsport Operations by maintaining financial oversight, streamlining procurement to reduce program schedule risk, managing costs, and ensuring program requirements are met. The role also develops the structures and processes needed to support these activities, including the integration and implementation of an ERP system.
Success is measured by how effectively program requirements are captured and executed. The Business Manager leads a team responsible for procurement, account reconciliation, materials planning and logistics (MP&L), and process integration into the ERP implementation. This role is integral to Racing’s Powertrain Operation, with work that directly affects development, testing, and race operations. Strong communication, professionalism, and collaboration are essential to success.
This role is hybrid and requires at least 4 days per week onsite in Allen Park, MI.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
- Financial Oversight: Manage the SBU's operational budget, track P&L performance, and analyze financial variations to optimize profitability.
- Operational Management: Streamline day-to-day business functions, including inventory management, local procurement processes, and administrative workflows.
- Represent Powertrain’s financial and operational interests at the overall Racing level, ensuring alignment with overarching corporate strategies.
- Compliance & Reporting: Monitor and ensure compliance with internal controls, corporate policies, and statutory regulations.
- Process Mapping: Analyze, document, and map existing SBU workflows to ensure the ERP architecture is configured to meet local business needs without disrupting critical logic.
- Act as the local Project Manager and "Super User" for the SBU during the deployment, data migration, and testing phases of the ERP rollout.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with IT architects, external integration vendors, and functional team leads to resolve system gaps and manage dependencies.
- Training & Adoption: Develop Powertrain-specific training materials and conduct hands-on training to guarantee high software adoption rates among local staff.
Qualifications
You’ll have...
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or Accounting.
- 3 to 7+ years of progressive experience in procurement, technical buyer or supply chain specialist with demonstrated proficiency in forecasting, scheduling, supplier performance and ensuring the timely availability of materials based on the Bill of Materials.
- Prior work in consultancy to develop or adapt new processes-based customer requirements.
- Excellent communication skills, ability to lead and facilitate discussions amongst cross-functional teams.
- Experience with ERP/MRP inventory control.
Even better, you may have...
- Master’s degree in supply chain management or Operations Research MBA.
- Demonstrated success in a motorsports, business aviation or a high-performance racing environment.
- LSS Green or Blackbelt.
- Have owned and operated a business or business operations of a business.
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
- Process-oriented mindset.
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.
- 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.
- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #FR1 #LI-LC2
