Digital Delivery Services Manager

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Findlay, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Oversees all project managers, release train Engineers (RTEs), and scrum masters, ensuring disciplined, predictable, high‑quality delivery across business‑critical initiatives. Accountable for delivery execution standards and continuous improvement of delivery practices in support of the Digital operating model. Partners closely with Portfolio Management, the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE), Product leadership, and business stakeholders to align delivery capabilities to prioritized work, advance agile maturity, strengthen delivery practices, and enable successful execution of business outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
Ten (10) or more years of diversified IT experience required.
Three (3) or more years of direct or indirect leadership experience required.
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.
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.
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.
Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
Energizing the Organization - Creates a purposeful, engaged, optimistic workforce.
Ongoing Learning & Self-Development - Regularly determines new areas for learning and acquires strategies and best practices for gaining/improving knowledge, behaviors, and skills.
Selecting and Developing People - Recognizes and selects high caliber talent, accurately assesses abilities and potential, coaches to develop capabilities and builds high- performing teams.
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.
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.
Influencing Others - The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.

Nice To Haves

Advanced certifications (Certified Scrum Master, PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner) preferred.
Two (2) or more years of experience managing agile delivery teams preferred.
Three (3) or more years of experience in agile delivery preferred.

Responsibilities

Manages daily operations of the team, providing guidance, mentorship, and driving a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Oversees recruitment, development, retention, and performance to build strong talent.
Enables successful delivery across initiatives by ensuring strong delivery process discipline, consistent execution practices, and alignment to delivery standards.
Collaborates with technology and business stakeholders to ensure delivery practices effectively support solution delivery and business objectives.
Leads, coaches, develops and manages the assignment of Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Scrum Masters and Project Managers, ensuring clear role expectations, consistent practices, and effective integration into delivery teams.
Manages effective assignment of resources to prioritized business initiatives, ensuring the appropriate capacity, capabilities, and delivery support are in place to meet organizational needs.
Monitors demand, capacity, and delivery risks, proactively addressing gaps and constraints to enable successful execution.
Define and leads the delivery practice strategy, establishes standards, playbooks, templates, and reporting expectations to drive consistency and predictability.
Drives continuous improvement and maturity of delivery practices, including defining key rituals, and performance indicators.
Acts as a trusted partner to business and technology leaders, promoting transparency and alignment.
Provides leadership with timely, actionable insights into delivery performance, risks, and dependencies to enable early intervention and course correction.
Builds and scales delivery capability by developing Scrum Masters, establishing clear career paths, role expectations, and ongoing skill development aligned to organizational needs.
Oversees delivery health across initiatives, ensuring strong delivery hygiene including planning discipline, dependency management, risk and issue management, and progress transparency.
Partners with Lean Center of Excellence (LACE) and delivery leaders to advance agile maturity and strengthen delivery effectiveness while ensuring Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Project Managers and scrum masters support consistent execution, Program Increment (PI) planning & readiness and cross team coordination.
Partners with Product Owners to strengthen backlog readiness, planning inputs, and execution effectiveness without direct reporting ownership.
Collaborates with tower and functional leaders to ensure delivery practices are aligned to the operating model and delivery roles are effectively embedded within teams.
Partners with Portfolio Managers, Product leaders, and business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, anticipated demand, and delivery needs, ensuring delivery capabilities and resources are aligned to support successful execution.