Senior Group Manager, Direct Procurement

🔥 12 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $141.7k - $268.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Ford Motor Company

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing department of procurement managers, category leads, and sourcing specialists • Establish departmental operating rhythms, performance standards, KPIs, workload balancing, and professional development roadmaps • Define and manage departmental budgets, resource allocation, and operational priorities • Define and drive mid- to long-term direct procurement strategy, commodity roadmaps, and sourcing policies across BESS subsystems • Translate business goals into category plans, localization strategies, and multi-year cost-reduction roadmaps • Establish and improve procurement processes, governance frameworks, and supplier risk-management protocols • Own commercial accountability and financial performance for direct procurement spend • Lead negotiations for supply contracts, master service agreements, tooling commitments, capacity reservations, and intellectual property terms • Develop should-cost modeling standards and financial business cases • Conduct stakeholder, market, and supply chain risk analyses • Oversee supplier industrialization, launch readiness, and ramp execution with Manufacturing and Supplier Technical Assistance • Escalate and resolve critical supplier disputes, commercial claims, and supply continuity disruptions • Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, Finance, Legal, and Logistics on design-to-value, make-vs.-buy evaluations, and technology roadmaps • Prepare briefings and recommendations for executive leadership • Represent Ford Energy in senior-level external engagements with supplier leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Business Administration, or Engineering • 10+ years of direct procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or supplier commercial experience • 3+ years of formal people leadership experience managing, mentoring, and developing procurement teams • 3+ years of experience in automotive, battery energy storage systems (BESS), power electronics, industrial equipment, or high-volume manufacturing environments • 3+ years of commercial experience across complex commodities, including power electronics, inverters, thermal management, lithium-ion battery cells/modules, fabricated structural enclosures, or high-voltage electrical distribution • Ability to travel 25% domestically and internationally • Demonstrated ability to direct a functional department, set strategic direction, manage performance, and foster a collaborative, high-accountability team culture • Proven experience structuring and negotiating multi-million-dollar complex supply agreements covering commercial terms, warranties, tooling, capacity, and risk-allocation mechanisms • Deep command of should-cost modeling, total cost of ownership drivers, design-to-cost principles, capital budgeting, and manufacturing cost structures • Ability to diagnose ambiguous supply chain challenges, conduct risk assessments, and implement mitigation strategies under constrained timelines • Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence peer managers, cross-functional partners, executive leadership, and senior external counterparts • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States • Visa sponsorship is not available

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonuses • Ford vehicle discounts • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care days • Paid parental leave • New parent ramp-up programs • Subsidized back-up child care • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement • Fertility treatments • 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 schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day • Paid time off • Option to purchase additional vacation time