Lead Portfolio Manager, Digital

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•San Antonio, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Portfolio Manager is responsible for supporting the planning, prioritization, governance, and performance visibility of MPC’s digital portfolio. This role helps translate digital strategy into an organized, transparent portfolio of initiatives by partnering with business, Digital, Finance, and technology stakeholders to monitor demand, capacity, funding, risks, dependencies, and value realization. The position provides leaders with clear portfolio insights, reporting, and recommendations to support informed decision-making, resource alignment, and execution discipline across digital initiatives. This role also helps mature portfolio management practices by improving portfolio processes, documentation, metrics, and stakeholder engagement to ensure digital investments are aligned to business outcomes and enterprise priorities. This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
Relevant certification or training required; advanced certification preferred
7+ years of experience required.
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.
Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
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.
Business Process Improvements - The process of analyzing business processes and workflows within the organization and identifying new approaches to redesign business activities or optimize performance, quality and speed of processes - including identifying and evaluating process automation opportunities.
Change Management - The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and help individuals, teams and organizations to navigate through change.
Data Analysis - The process of measuring and managing organizational data, identifying methodological best practices and conducting statistical analyses.
Documentation Tracking - The creation, distribution, usage, maintenance and disposition of recorded information cultivated as evidence of business activities and transactions.
Financial Acumen - Utilizing financial data to diagnose business strengths and weaknesses and identify the implications for potential strategies, keeping a financial perspective in the forefront when making strategic decisions.
Metrics Management - The process of monitoring performance indicators that demonstrate how effectively a unit/ business/ function/ company is achieving key objectives.
Portfolio Management - Portfolio management refers to the process of strategically selecting, prioritizing, visualizing, and managing a collection of projects or programs to achieve organizational objectives effectively. It involves the centralized management and visualization of multiple projects or programs within an organization to optimize resource allocation, mitigate risks, and maximize returns. Visualizing the collection of projects or initiatives within an organization in a graphical or visual format provides provide stakeholders, project managers, and decision-makers with a clear and comprehensive view of the entire portfolio of projects.
Relationship Management - Relationship Management is the conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success. At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management.
Schedule Management - The process of establishing policies and documentation for maintaining, developing, managing, and controlling the schedules for time and resources for the completion of the project.
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.
Value Tracking & Realization - Value tracking focuses on monitoring and measuring the progress of a project in terms of its expected value, while value realization is concerned with ensuring that the anticipated benefits are fully achieved and sustained over time. Both concepts are critical for effective project management and maximizing the return on investment for organizations.

Responsibilities

Supports large and/or complex portfolios, leads up to a portfolio team to ensures initiatives are managed according to established processes, from idea to completion, while identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and transparency.
Facilitates and/or contributes to portfolio strategy.
Optimizes portfolio organization to meet strategic initiatives efficiently and effectively.
Advises and collaborates with leadership on delivery structures, including individuals, teams, and teams-of-teams.
Identifies and generates reporting mechanisms to best communicate to stakeholders a visualization of the strategy execution within the company and department.
Guides and contributes to strategic portfolio roadmap and objective creation.
Applies governance and risk mitigation to improve portfolio throughput and quality without reducing processing time.
Shares best practices in portfolio governance and risk mitigation across the organization.
Seeks, establishes, and drives emerging opportunities to keep portfolio stakeholders involved and informed on initiative status, impediments, objectives, roadmaps, etc.
Facilitates and/or contributes to the creation of portfolio documentation; recommends improvement and shares best practices.
Proactively learns and applies new concepts in Lean-Agile Portfolio Management; Demonstrates progress through metrics and measurable results.
Coaches and mentors other Portfolio Managers, leader and stakeholders; shares best practices across the organization.