Senior Manager – Fulfillment Delivery Team

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $141.7k - $268.3k / year

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

🚗 Transport

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Transport • Manufacturing • Sustainability

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

• Lead the Fulfillment Delivery Team in rapid deployment to supplier locations when near-term delivery, production, or material flow stability is at risk. • Establish and manage the team’s deployment model, ensuring team members are prepared to travel on short notice, typically within 24 to 48 hours. • Prioritize supplier assignments based on production risk, customer impact, constrained part availability, timing exposure, and escalation severity. • Direct a high-travel operating model, with anticipated team travel up to 80% based on business need and supplier risk. • Set expectations for supplier Gemba reviews to ensure the team observes actual conditions, validates constraints, and understands the problem at the source. • Ensure value stream maps are developed for supplier material flow and production processes to identify bottlenecks, waste, handoff issues, and process gaps. • Lead the definition of gating issues preventing stable production or delivery, including root cause, risk exposure, affected part numbers, quantity at risk, and timing impact. • Drive execution of interim corrective actions required to achieve short-term stability and protect Ford production volume. • Ensure supplier production is aligned with Ford priorities so constrained output is directed to the highest-priority vehicle and plant builds. • Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Logistics, Suppliers, and Customer Operations to resolve material risks. • Develop dashboards and KPI reporting to enable fact-based decision-making and operational transparency. • Lead daily operational recovery reviews focused on deep problem solving for critical parts, production impacts, and customer priorities. • Maintain leadership oversight of the action registry to ensure issues, owners, countermeasures, due dates, and completion status are accurate and actively managed. • Own recurring leadership communications, including night letters, that clearly define the problem statement, root cause, risk, interim corrective actions, permanent corrective actions, timing, and directly responsible individuals.

🎯 Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree- in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related degree; or a combination of equivalent experience and education. • 7 years of experience or more in a Manufacturing environment. Running Gemba or Kaizen projects. • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Principles • Ability to travel and be at off-site locations for extended periods of time. Greater than 50% of the time. • Demonstrated leadership experience in supplier delivery performance, material flow, production operations, manufacturing constraint management, or supply chain recovery. • Strong ability to lead teams in high-urgency, ambiguous, and fast-changing supply disruption environments. • Strong knowledge of structured problem solving, root cause analysis, interim corrective actions, permanent corrective actions, OEE concepts, and Lean Mgt. principles. • Ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams, including manufacturing, supplier technical assistance, product development, purchasing, logistics, operations leadership, and supplier leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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 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.