Business Strategy & Partnerships Senior Director - VCO

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Houston, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Strategy & Partnerships Senior Director serves as the strategic digital advisor to the Value Chain Optimization organization, developing trusted partnerships that align digital investments with business priorities while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and measurable business value. This role is accountable for shaping digital strategy, driving portfolio priorities, connecting business challenges to digital solutions, and ensuring successful execution through close partnership with enterprise architecture, product delivery, engineering, data, security, and operations teams. This role manages staff, sets direction, deploys resources, and has responsibility for employee development, performance reviews, pay reviews, and staffing decisions. Accountable for business, functional or operational areas, processes, or programs.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
Fifteen (15) or more years of diversified Digital/IT experience required.
Eight (8) or more years of managing leaders of leaders, cross functional teams and experience influencing key senior stakeholders required.
Ten (10) or more years of downstream Oil & Gas industry experience required.
Three (3) or more years of experience in executing value chain optimization solutions (Plan-to-Produce process) in a multi-asset and a multi-region portfolio.
Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful
AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC’s business, industry, and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
Data-Driven Decision Making – Applies data to make informed decisions with a priority on using real-time data, analytics, and insights to optimize operations, improve safety, and enhance the company's competitive edge.
Digital Awareness - Actively explore, learn, and implement emerging digital tools, technologies, and trends. Involves seeking out new information, asking insightful questions, and testing innovative approaches to understand how digital solutions can create value, improve processes, or enhance experiences. Demonstrates openness to change, continuous learning, and adapting to the evolving digital landscape.
Energizing the Organization - Creates a purposeful, engaged, optimistic workforce.
Influencing Others - The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.
Ongoing Learning & Self-Development - Regularly determines new areas for learning and acquires strategies and best practices for gaining/improving knowledge, behaviors, and skills.
Results Driven - Drives operational and process excellence and innovative behavior by empowering others, collaborating, taking appropriate risks, making timely decisions, and holding people accountable for results.
Selecting and Developing People - Recognizes and selects high caliber talent, accurately assesses abilities and potential, coaches to develop capabilities and builds high-performing teams.
Strategic Outlook - Examines issues, generates ideas, creates future scenarios, and develops plans with a long-term perspective. Ensures short-term goals support long-term strategy and that organizational/functional strategy aligns with and supports MPC’s overall business strategy.

Nice To Haves

Experience in executing or managing large multi-million-dollar programs preferred.
Experience with Aspentech suite of applications and unified solutions supporting value chain processes software preferred.

Responsibilities

Participates in high-level decision-making and shapes the vision and overall direction for digital business enablement for the Value Chain Optimization organization, creating a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Partners with senior business and Digital stakeholders as a trusted strategic advisor, applying value chain optimization expertise and enabling technology knowledge to align priorities, shape future digital solutions, manage risks and opportunities, and advance measurable business value.
Translates organizational vision and business strategy into actionable department goals, business capability requirements, digital awareness strategies, and risk management frameworks.
Oversees recruitment, development, retention, performance management, and succession planning to build strong leadership pipelines.
Collaborates with peers on the program portfolio for cross-functional alignment, directing its progression against strategic objectives including financial management, value realization, and risk escalation.
Defines and executes the technology roadmap by translating business goals and challenges into prioritized digital initiatives and solutions that improve business processes, productivity, customer experience, and overall business outcomes.
Identifies opportunities to improve business outcomes through process optimization, automation, and emerging technologies.
Prioritizes and manages incoming business requests, balancing resources, timelines, and strategic value.
Facilitates clear communication between Digital and business stakeholders, managing expectations and promoting transparency.