Manager Business Process Mapping Jobs in Detroit, MI

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Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position...

The Transformation Leader is the architect of the program's end-to-end value stream and data framework. By synchronizing product development systems with downstream industrialization, this role maintains real-time accountability for the operational health and delivery of the program. They oversee the data and processes involved, ensuring that the handoff between development and manufacturing is seamless and that the program stays on track daily 

Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week 

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in any Engineering domain or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. 
• 10 + years of experience leading teams with skills including:
  • 5+ years of experience leading product development transformations/implementing disruptive process improvements across multiple organizations.
  • The ability to assertively facilitate groups of professionals and influence outcomes for the best enterprise outcomes
  • Effectively communicating across, down and up to senior leadership
• 5 + years of experience using value stream mapping to drive improvements in real world situations in professional organizations
• 5 + years of experience and expertise with cross-functional automotive or similar industrialization processes with experience in product development and cross functional knowledge
• Proven experience leading at least one large-scale "Digital Transformation" or "Business Process Transformation" project from conception to completion
• 5+ years of experience in PLM systems such as Dassault 3DX and Siemens Teamcenter.

Even better, you may have...

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
• Automotive Industry, OEM or consulting experience

• Experience with large, complex enterprise organizations.

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage 
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $129,600-244,680.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

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What you'll do...

• Architect the Digital Thread: Work with various stakeholders to understand the business process requirements and design the end-to-end "future state" business process maps. You will define how program industrialization should function in a digitally transformed ecosystem 
• Strategic Problem Solving:Architect both interim "bridge" solutions and permanent enterprise systems to ensure program industrialization remains seamless during periods of rapid change. 
• Drive Process and Data Integrity: Identify and resolve cross-functional gaps across Marketing, PD, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing, serving as the final authority on process and data alignment. 
• Ensure Operational Health: Define and monitor real-time KPIs to measure the efficiency of the value stream and the "readiness" of the program to move to industrialization. 
• Decision Governance:Develop and implement the standards, guidelines, and frameworks that empower individual teams to make high-quality, high-velocity decisions. 
• Mitigate Risk: Conduct process stress tests and lead rapid-response teams to fix bottlenecks that threaten program delivery. 
• Build the Enterprise Playbook: Codify lessons learned into a scalable digital transformation framework to be used across all future program 

The Ideal Candidate will..

• The Systems Thinker:You see the "big picture" and understand how end to end value streams are interconnected with each other  
• The Change Agent:You are comfortable with ambiguity and have a proven track record of driving consensus in complex, matrixed organizations. 
• The Lean Expert:You are a master of Value Stream Mapping and process optimization, but you know how to apply these tools to modern digital workflows. 
• The Technical Liaison:You can speak "IT" and "Business" fluently, ensuring that digital tools solve the problems they were built for.