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Ford Racing Parts Chassis Planning Analyst Jobs in Dearborn, MI at Ford Motor Company
Title: Ford Racing Parts Chassis Planning Analyst
Company: Ford Motor Company
Location: Dearborn, MI
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In this position…
Ford Racing Parts is looking for a motivated and business-minded Chassis Planning Analyst to help shape the next generation of performance chassis, suspension, brake, and wheel products for Ford enthusiasts.
This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, business planning, engineering feasibility, supplier engagement, and financial analysis. The Chassis Planning Analyst will help turn enthusiast-focused ideas into profitable, executable Ford Racing Parts programs that strengthen Ford’s performance credibility and grow the Ford Customization business.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about performance vehicles, understands the aftermarket customer, and enjoys building the business case behind products that make Ford vehicles more capable, more personalized, and more exciting to own.
What You'll Do…
As the Ford Racing Parts Chassis Planning Analyst, you will support the development and execution of new chassis and wheel product opportunities across the Ford Racing Parts portfolio.
Product & Business Case Development
- Develop business cases to support new Ford Racing Parts chassis, suspension, brake, and wheel programs.
- Analyze revenue, profit, cost, volume, investment, timing, and market opportunity to determine program viability.
- Evaluate supplier quotes, engineering assumptions, manufacturing costs, competitive benchmarks, and customer demand to support informed product decisions.
- Help identify the right product opportunities that align with Ford Racing Parts’ strategy, brand positioning, and financial objectives.
Cross-Functional Program Planning
- Lead cross-functional Cost, Feasibility & Timing evaluations with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and other key partners.
- Support milestone deliverables within the Ford Racing Parts Product Change Request system.
- Manage Vehicle Personalization project requests, business cases, BOM worksheets, reporting requirements, and planning documentation.
- Drive alignment across internal teams to ensure product concepts are feasible, profitable, and executable.
Issue Resolution & Program Readiness
- Identify and help resolve business case and program issues related to cost, weight, feasibility, timing, quality, capacity, and profitability.
- Provide clear planning direction to help move projects from early concept through approval.
- Ensure a smooth transition from Planning to Program Management at project handoff.
- Support disciplined project governance while maintaining the speed and flexibility needed to compete in the performance aftermarket.
Business Performance & Leadership Interface
- Support key business objectives, including revenue growth, profit performance, budget adherence, and portfolio expansion.
- Prepare analysis and recommendations for leadership reviews and decision-making forums.
- Interface with Senior Management, Purchasing, Finance, Market Areas, Global Regions, and external suppliers.
- Help Ford Racing Parts identify where to play, how to win, and which products will best serve Ford’s most passionate customers.
What Makes This Role Exciting
This role is more than traditional planning. It is an opportunity to influence the future of Ford Racing Parts’ chassis and wheel portfolio by helping define the products enthusiasts want most.
The successful candidate will help bring performance-minded products to market that improve stance, handling, capability, appearance, and enthusiast connection across Ford vehicles. From early product ideas to approved business cases, this role helps decide which opportunities become real Ford Racing Parts programs.
You will work closely with passionate cross-functional teams and have visibility to strategic decisions that directly impact Ford Racing Parts growth, brand strength, and customer excitement.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a strong analytical thinker with a passion for performance vehicles and the ability to connect product ideas to business results.
A Successful Candidate Will Bring
- Strong business case development and financial analysis skills.
- Ability to evaluate cost, volume, profit, timing, feasibility, and market opportunity.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
- Comfort working with Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, and supplier partners.
- Ability to turn complex inputs into clear recommendations for leadership.
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and follow-through.
- Passion for Ford vehicles, performance parts, customization, and the enthusiast aftermarket.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with detailed execution.
Why Join Ford Racing Parts
Ford Racing Parts serves some of Ford’s most passionate customers — the enthusiasts who want to personalize, upgrade, and push their vehicles further.
As part of the Ford Racing Parts team, you will help grow a business that connects Ford’s racing heritage, performance credibility, and aftermarket opportunity. This is a chance to work on visible, exciting products that matter to customers, strengthen the Ford brand, and contribute directly to Ford Customization revenue and profit growth.
This role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of Ford Racing Parts chassis and wheel strategy — and to play a direct role in bringing enthusiast-focused products from idea to reality.
You'll have…
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- Experience in product planning, business planning, program management, finance, purchasing, engineering, or a related automotive role.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to build and evaluate business cases, including revenue, cost, profit, investment, volume, and timing assumptions.
- Ability to interpret supplier quotes, engineering inputs, BOM data, manufacturing assumptions, and market/competitive information.
Even better, you may have…
- Strong communication skills with the ability to summarize complex information into clear recommendations.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, and supplier partners.
- Strong organization and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects, milestones, and deliverables at once.
- High level of ownership, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Experience with automotive chassis, suspension, brakes, wheels, tires, or vehicle dynamics.
- Experience in performance parts, accessories, aftermarket, racing, enthusiast vehicles, or vehicle personalization.
- Familiarity with Ford systems, product development milestones, PCR processes, BOMs, and business case approval processes.
- Understanding of cost, feasibility, timing, quality, capacity, and profitability tradeoffs.
- Ability to interface confidently with senior leadership and global/regional business partners.
- Passion for Ford vehicles, Ford Racing, customization, and enthusiast customer needs.
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.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300-$124,500.
This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.
