SALES & PRODUCT PLANNING

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REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS POSITION INCLUDE:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years’ experience in order scheduling
• Understanding of the monthly allocation scheduling process for retail and fleet orders
• Knowledge of Ford vehicle configurations
• Ability to be on-site (Dearborn, Michigan) 4+ days per week

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
• Flexible family care days, 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
• 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

WHAT YOU’LL DO…

•Coordinating the monthly scheduling of all Fleet orders within buildable allocation across each customer channel (Commercial, Government – Federal and State & Local, Rental, Pool Accounts, Dealer stock).
•Works directly with NASPM Allocators, SVS Analysts, Ford Pro Operations / Scheduling Team, Ford Pro Channel Managers, National Account Managers, and Commercial Business Managers.
•Supports weekly Dealer News Bulletin, communicating Fleet vehicle line scheduling weeks, constraints, and order bank timing.
•Monitors Fleet order bank daily and manually lines up Fleet orders within allocation and customer requested build week timing to be prioritized for scheduling.
•Adjust allocation between channels if needed to fill scheduling gaps.
•Identify constraints limiting order scheduling and make recommendations on available commodities or configurations to help get vehicles scheduled.
•Collaborating across Allocation, Scheduling, Forecasting, Constraints, Production Planning and Sales Teams.

OS BEHAVIORS THAT ARE REQUIRED IN THIS ROLE INCLUDE:

Excellence: Take personal pride in meeting or exceeding high standards and quality, courageously improve the status quo and establish better, more creative approaches and outcomes.
Excellence : Leverage diverse inputs, identify the root cause of problems and anticipate where problems may occur. Proactively identify areas for continuous improvement.
Focus: Use systems, data and facts to drive an understanding of reality and create clarity.
Collaboration: Proactively collaborate across departments to meet interdependent goals and strategically leverage multiple systems to accomplish desired outcome.
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 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
• Flexible family care days, 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
• 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 a salary grade 8.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP1
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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OS BEHAVIORS THAT ARE REQUIRED IN THIS ROLE INCLUDE:

• Excellence: Take personal pride in meeting or exceeding high standards and quality, courageously improve the status quo and establish better, more creative approaches and outcomes.
• Excellence: Leverage diverse inputs, identify the root cause of problems and anticipate where problems may occur. Proactively identify areas for continuous improvement.
• Focus: Use systems, data and facts to drive an understanding of reality and create clarity.
• Collaboration: Proactively collaborate across departments to meet interdependent goals and strategically leverage multiple systems to accomplish desired outcome.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Coordinating the monthly scheduling of all Fleet orders within buildable allocation across each customer channel (Commercial, Government – Federal and State & Local, Rental, Pool Accounts, Dealer stock).
• Works directly with NASPM Allocators, SVS Analysts, Ford Pro Operations / Scheduling Team, Ford Pro Channel Managers, National Account Managers, and Commercial Business Managers.
• Supports weekly Dealer News Bulletin, communicating Fleet vehicle line scheduling weeks, constraints, and order bank timing.
• Monitors Fleet order bank daily and manually lines up Fleet orders within allocation and customer requested build week timing to be prioritized for scheduling.
• Adjust allocation between channels if needed to fill scheduling gaps.
• Identify constraints limiting order scheduling and make recommendations on available commodities or configurations to help get vehicles scheduled.
• Collaborating across Allocation, Scheduling, Forecasting, Constraints, Production Planning and Sales Teams.