Lauren Stankiewicz

About Lauren Stankiewicz

Business Administration graduate from UAB with a strong aptitude for customer service and leadership, and over a decade in automotive financing. Extensive experience with product, using Agile methodologies, balancing multiple assignments, leading teams, and delivering with minimal direction. A responsible, diligent, organized, trustworthy team player, who has a great attitude, interpersonal skills, and learns quickly. Consistently demonstrates academic ability, a passion to give back, and a desire to excel. Currently employed by Ford Motor Credit and a graduate of their Leadership Development Program.

Experience

1. Director of Product - Originations Transformation

   Ford Credit

   Mar 2024 — Present · Tampa, FL, US

   My mission is to lead a team of product managers and analysts to transform, develop, and maintain modern and innovative loan originations products that help our dealers and internal operations teams better serve our mutual customers. I evangelize the vision for this space and manage the user experience, engineering execution and overall delivery of the plan. I regularly interact with cross-functional stakeholders at Ford Credit and Ford Motor, with high visibility to senior leadership on key strategic initiatives. Current products in my group’s portfolio include:• Application Processing and Decisioning• Contract Booking and Funding• Pricing and Vehicle Valuation• Dealer Management • Dealer Information• Dealer Electronic Funds Transfer• Portfolio Transfer ToolResponsibilities: • Define and drive the overall product vision, strategy, and roadmap for my team with clarity and key measures of success • Obsess over user experiences with empathy to identify and solve high impact pain points through technology • Partner closely with Engineering, User Experience (UX), and other cross-functional teams (both internally and externally) to create, drive, and deliver an innovative, compelling, and user-friendly experiences • Inspire and grow a team of product managers through effective mentoring, coaching, employee development, and retention strategies • Unlock roadblocks at all levels and cultivate collaboration with senior product leaders across Ford Credit and Ford through leadership, creativity, intelligence, and presence • Adhere to strong process discipline and ensure uptime and compliance for critical business systems • Manage vendor relationships for RouteOne and Alfa • Serve as SME on business-critical strategy sprints and lead digital implementation of resulting outcomes • Evaluate market trends and new capabilities to keep Ford Credit competitive, recommend enhancements

Education

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM (UAB)

  Bachelor of Science; Diploma, Management; Business Administration

  2009 — 2013

• Asbury High School

  Advanded Diploma

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Project Management
• Team Building
• Management
• Data Entry
• Customer Service
• Typing
• Event Planning
• Training
• Social Media
• Conflict Resolution
• Time Management
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Public Speaking
• Research
• Microsoft Word