Ford is undertaking a significant transformation of the Industrial System Platform. The Industrial System IT team leads the digital transformation of engineering and manufacturing to enable Ford to deliver innovative, high-quality products and services to customers. Ford is launching a full lifecycle, end-to-end initiative to modernize how products are defined, engineered and manufactured. + **Portfolio Financial planner:** In this position you will be able to lead the Demand management process across the portfolio. Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting. + Financial Roadmap Planning: Develop and maintain a detailed financial roadmap, working closely with product owners and financial planners to ensure alignment with business goals and prioritized initiatives. + Manage financial commitments, cost of investment & operating expense across PD-IT. Correspond with PD-IT planners to understand spend plan and variances. Assess confidence of spend and predict financial gaps. + Supplier management, vendor Statement of work management, incl writing SOW’s, one pagers, planning engagement type and executing the engagement start to finish. Supporting audits to ensure compliance. + Manage the plan for sourcing strategy and maintain program resource mgmt., Aligning with ITBO targets and managing sourcing strategy plans across all product groups. + **Technical Product Integration:** effectively present and communicate delivery plans, statuses, risks and key decisions within product teams and with Senior Management on a regular basis. Manage the demand and coordinate changes through system of delivery. + Manage and coordinate dependencies with internal and external stakeholders. Balance multiple projects to critical path, providing regular milestone updates and risk assessments to stakeholders and Senior Management + Assist in new process creation and roll-out + Provide guidance to product teams on agile ceremonies, best practices, and implementation + Help the product lead define and articulate project strategy and objectives, scope, and business requirements + Think creatively to make recommendations regarding execution strategies and potential solutions + Identify, research, analyze and manage risks and interdependencies within projects/systems/resources, and formulate plausible solutions and contingency plans in consultation with stakeholders and Senior Management + Lead the development of an integrated PD IT cycle plan for our budgets YOY + Coordinate the ideation & roll out of process for demand planning and meeting the ITBO process timelines. + Establish business value for prioritized investments + Conduct cross product line PI planning events + Handle formal scope definition, KPI identification & tracking and change log + Balance demand & capacity allocation across the PD IT Portfolio + Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting + Maintain supplier contracts, follow ITBO process guidelines to ensure our engagements are compliant and manage sourcing strategies end to end. + Bachelors in related field or work experience equivalent. + 7+ years consistent track record driving objective accountability and ownership within cross functional teams + 5+ years Scaled Agile System of Delivery + 7+ years Low cost Sourcing experience + 7+ years’ experience with supplier/purchase service sourcing + Understanding of Product Driven System of Delivery + Strong technical product management discipline + Politically savvy navigating the organization to achieve outcomes + Proven ability to lead and empower team members + Strong organizational and multi-tasking abilities + Knowledge of engineering processes i.e., GPDS + Resourceful and creative. + Strong knowledge of tools, ERP Financial tools, NICUS, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Indepth knowledge of MS Excel. **Requisition ID** : 48525