Global Workplace Strategy Director

Job ID: 70421
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Category: Office of General Counsel

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Job Type: Full time
Work Type: Hybrid

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The Opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced leader to join us as the Global Workplace Strategy Director - part of the Ford Land team. This dynamic individual is responsible for aligning Ford Motor Company’s physical footprint, technology, and business goals to optimize employee performance and real estate efficiency.

The Workplace Strategy Director will have direct responsibility for portfolio strategy, occupancy and space planning, workplace solutions and change management. This individual will deliver with support from a collaborative team providing global consistency and employee care and experience.

The ideal candidate is a transformational leader with a proven blend of problem-solving capabilities, an ability to prioritize initiatives using business judgement, and possesses technical knowledge of broad and detailed functional processes. Excellent communication skills and a high level of EQ are imperative to collaborating with multiple stakeholders across varied teams.

Key Responsibilities Will Include:

Develop and maintain a 5–10-year real estate portfolio strategic roadmap
Align Ford Motor Company business operations with optimized Occupancy and Space Planning delivery function globally
Evaluate real estate usage data determine optimal square footage, desk ratios, and spatial zoning
Collaborate with Enterprise Technology to implement supporting technology platform(s)
Support and advise senior and executive leaders on actions required to balance portfolio utilization and sequence global initiatives with enabling real estate solutions
Facilitate cross-functional strategic planning and prioritization of company initiatives with various Ford Land functions (e.g., Project Management, Design, WPX, Technology, etc.)
Build change management roadmaps and engage key stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery; lead change by taking people on a journey through the process.
Identify continued opportunities for best practices, techniques, and tools.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, operations management, or related field
Experience leading Occupancy and Space planning teams
Strategic thinker who can approach problems with a creative and optimistic mindset and demonstrated ability of solving problems leveraging data
Flexible and detail-oriented, having exemplary time management and organizational skills
Capable of building relationships and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders
Ability to have challenging conversation while remaining calm and solutions oriented

Preferred Requirements:

Masters’ degree
Experience with business integration projects and rollouts
Results-driven with ability to dive deep into details while leading, motivating, and inspiring others
Demonstrated self-starter who thrives within a highly synergetic, multi-disciplinary team
Excellent spoken and written communication skills as well as receptive listening skills, with ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences
Broad knowledge of business processes, business systems, and interrelationships between functions

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