Responsibilities

• Analyze trend-related insights as you: Condu ct scanning to analyze emerging signals, trends, and drivers in order to understand and anticipate changes taking place at the core, adjacency, and periphery of a business; these inputs inform a hypothesis about potential impacts, risks, or opportunities for Ford.
• Research shifts in the automotive industry and its consumer base with trusted internal and external data sources such as sales data, vehicle buyer surveys, and market reports.
• Research the contextual business environment,keeping a pulse on emerging signals and trends in the STEEP categories - Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic and Political factors / dynamics. Communicate trends and their future implications by: Authoring data-driven trends, reports and scenarios that focus on the shifts impacting the future of the auto industry and its consumers Leading and facilitating collaborative workshops with cross-functional teams by providing insightful trends to support program workstreams Acting as the voice of the customer beyond the confines of the industry - you are the primary resource and window into the consumer world outside of the automotive market for partner teams Support scenario activities, including: Integrating scenarios / futures into organizational strategy/project work through facilitating strategic workshops / conversations with teams for various ends including: Developing insights into future markets. Surfacing, assessing and choosing options that are most resilient to potential future uncertainties. Stress-testing strategies, plans or strategic hypotheses. Developing communication assets that socialize and introduce future scenarios with key internal audiences. Challenging partners to think critically about a range of futures and how to build robust strategies to prepare for Ford’s place in them.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (social science, psychology, marketing, business, informatics / data science, technology, law or related field)
• Experience in the field of strategic foresight or utilization of foresight tools
• Strategic thinking with a future-forward intuition
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills and strong business judgment – able to translate strategic plans into executable actions
• Experience designing and/or facilitating group collaboration workshops
• Ability to frame and explain sophisticated ideas and concepts in accessible language and formats
• Ability to collaborate well with cross-functional teams to develop agreement and consensus that drives progress and results

Preferred

• Miro, mTab, S&P Global, SharePoint

Benefits

• • 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.