Ford Motor Company

Manager, HR Business Partner

Ford Motor Company
Posted 10/22/2026full-timeDearborn • Michigan • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $115,500 - $218,100 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in developing and executing people strategies aligned with business objectives, utilizing data analysis and structured problem-solving methodologies to drive organizational effectiveness and talent management. Proven ability to coach leaders, manage complex employee relations, and lead HR initiatives that enhance workforce optimization and engagement.

Highest-signal resume keywords
People Strategy DevelopmentOrganizational DiagnosisTalent ManagementCoaching LeadersData Analysis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build the annual people operating plan with the leadership team and translate it into quarterly execution with named owners, measures, and review dates
  • Develop people strategies aligned with business plans, economics, operating metrics, and constraints
  • Coach leaders to own and execute people plans
  • Partner with Finance on headcount planning, position control, workforce cost, and financial business cases
  • Operate at Gemba to serve employees and uncover issues at their origin
  • Lead HR initiatives using workforce, talent, employee-relations, and other data to diagnose issues, develop recommendations, support implementation, and assess outcomes
  • Assess and develop client-group behaviors and drive interventions
  • Coach leaders on visibility, accessibility, candid conversations, policy application, engagement, and retention
  • Build People Action Plans from employee feedback and manage countermeasures
  • Deliver documented and consistent case outcomes and escalate significant matters
  • Manage performance exits, reduction actions, and complex accommodations with Legal and relevant COEs
  • Apply A3/PDCA and data analysis to HR metrics and continuous improvement
  • Manage indicators including regretted attrition, internal fill, span and layer, engagement hot spots, time to fill, and employee-relations drivers
  • Eliminate waste in people processes with process owners or COEs
  • Diagnose organizational effectiveness and design related changes
  • Lead organization-change execution, including option design, cost and risk assessment, alignment, sequencing, communications, and stabilization
  • Build reskilling and redeployment plans related to automation and technology changes
  • Support organizational optimization and efficiency targets
  • Guide people aspects of organization structure changes, workforce optimization, and talent integration
  • Lead talent review, calibration, and succession planning
  • Build succession depth and development plans for critical roles
  • Shape success profiles and partner on selection for critical roles
  • Drive performance-management outcomes and coach leaders on performance root causes

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, or a related discipline, or commensurate work experience
  • 7-10 years of progressive experience in Human Resources
  • Experience in organization diagnosis or design, complex employee relations, talent and succession planning, and coaching people leaders
  • Breadth across HR disciplines and client environments, including professional, technical, commercial, manufacturing, or represented populations
  • Demonstrated use of structured problem-solving methodology such as A3, PDCA, continuous improvement, Six Sigma, or equivalent, applied to real business problems
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
  • Master's degree, experience operating within a COE and Shared Services HR model, and PHR, SHRM-CP, or CHRP are preferred
  • Visa sponsorship is not available

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Paid parental leave
  • New parent ramp-up programs
  • Subsidized back-up childcare
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous vacation time
  • Sick/personal time
  • Paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

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Hard Skills
A3 MethodologyPDCAContinuous ImprovementEmployee RelationsSuccession PlanningWorkforce OptimizationPerformance ManagementOrganizational Change ManagementHeadcount PlanningProcess Improvement
Soft Skills
CoachingCommunicationProblem-SolvingCollaborationEngagement
Certifications & Qualifications
PHRSHRM-CPCHRP
Industry Keywords
Human ResourcesOrganizational DevelopmentWorkforce CostEmployee FeedbackTalent IntegrationClient EnvironmentsManufacturingTechnical PopulationsCommercial PopulationsProfessional Populations