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- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with business and industry experts to define long-term capabilities and use-cases that meet business and customer needs in the space of quality, sustainability, circular economy, etc. Develop relationships and maintain a knowledge of the ecosystem.
- Benchmarking: Understand the supply chain industry landscape and develop a maturity roadmap point of view for the long-term use-cases in the space of quality, sustainability, circular economy, etc.
- External partnerships: Work with universities and participate in industry consortiums on behalf of Ford and contribute to industry standard development in the supply chain digitization space.
- Research/Spikes: Evaluate emerging industry trends, technologies, and opportunities for Proof of Concepts. Identify opportunities for business process and technology improvements to address gaps and assist in solution design. Develop and deliver rapid prototypes to prove out new concepts or workflows.
- Integration: Collaborate with other workstreams and achieve end to end design integrations across multiple systems including integration of internal and third-party tool(s) used by Ford and its supply base for N-Tier Collaboration. Design and create actionable software delivery and integration activities to move design to implementation efforts. Facilitate adoption of relevant Ford processes, employ/champion Agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques whenever possible.
- Communication: Clearly communicate vision and strategy to cross functional teams, senior leaders, and stakeholders to gain alignment. Grow subject matter expertise, provide guidance to other members on the team and detail our capabilities to help educate partners.
- Live and breathe Agile: Participate in Daily Standups, Story Mapping, Iteration Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, and Epics/Sub-Epics/Story Acceptance sessions. Create and prioritize a backlog to help build new features with required definition of ready and done in. Lead ceremonies that help define the work to be done, improve team process, and align the team to specific objectives. Ensure effective usage of Rally/Jira and derive meaningful insights from Rally/Jira like Velocity of team, throughput etc. to enable the team to go further. Partner with Product Owners and develop and as required execute test scenarios at various levels (functional, user acceptance) within Agile Framework.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, Business, or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in research and innovation, designing thinking, or strategy, focusing on emerging technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, AI/ML, Conversational AI, Chatbots, etc .
- Proven and demonstrable experience and / or certification in advancing innovation in a corporate context through Design Thinking processes. Virtual and in-person group facilitation experience. Ability to synthesize and visualize complex, ambiguous, or even conflicting concepts and translate them into a list of use-cases or an action plan for the team or organization. Ability to lead through influence
- Strong global business acumen - Product Development, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Planning and Logistics, Service, Order to Delivery with a passion for sustainability and circular economy
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, building trust and driving success across skill teams (business and product) and leadership levels
- Experience working with external partners, including industry experts & consortiums, for development and complex integration of industry standards and multi-party solutions. Experience in benchmarking.
- Proactive attitude and not afraid to ask question and ability to operate with an Agile mentality in an ambiguous environment. Good organizational and time management skills.
- Willing to work on a highly collaborative team fulfilling different roles and fill gaps
- Experience working with Agile project management software such Jira or Rally
- Experience with Design Thinking tools such as Figma, InVision, Miro, Balsamiq, etc.
- Experience in cloud based development and operations (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform/PCF)
- Experience working with CI/CD systems (e.g., Gitlab / Jenkins)
- Master's degree in Computer Science, IT or Business Administration
- Proven ability to learn and become productive in new concepts quickly
- Behavioral Leadership (ability to handle difficult situations and build relationships)
- Experience leading agile software development practices to solution delivery
- High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work with multi-functional teams for deliverables and timing
- Curiosity towards new technologies that may benefit the team and a strong desire to learn
- Exposure to automated testing concepts, tools, and frameworks