Senior/Lead Data Analyst

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

20h

About The Position

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Position Summary: Do you have a quantitative background? Do you like solving complex business problems through data? Marathon Petroleum Company LP (MPC) has an opening within the Value Chain Optimization organization on the Value Chain Insights team. Our mission is to deliver exceptional, cutting-edge analytics and meaningful insights that empower decision-makers by increasing trust and confidence in our reporting and reducing barriers to timely, actionable insight. This role sits in the Dashboarding & Reporting vertical and is an individual contributor responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining dashboards and standardized reporting outputs that translate value chain performance and planning and model outputs into clear, consistent, and auditable decision support. You will partner with stakeholders to understand reporting needs, strengthen data quality and refresh reliability, and improve accessibility and adoption through reusable templates and standardized visualization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, with a preference in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related.
• Four (4) years of experience required for Senior Data Analyst.
• Six (6) years of experience required for Lead Data Analyst.
• Strong communication and time management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Strong passion for delivering trusted, easy-to-use dashboards and standardized reporting that improves decision-making and KPI visibility.
• Experience translating business questions into KPI definitions, report requirements, and dashboard designs that are scalable and maintainable.
• Experience with data analysis efforts: identifying data sources, querying data, performing exploratory data analysis/modeling, presenting historical insights/business justification, and affecting data-driven business changes.
• Exposure to business intelligence self-service analytics software tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, or others, including data transformation, measures, and performance tuning.
• Experience producing reporting outputs that are consistent and auditable across periods/locations; comfortable documenting logic and validating results.
• Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources and communicating complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
• Proven ability to think critically and solve problems, given incomplete information and/or ambiguous requirements.
• A flexible analytic approach that provides results at varying levels of precision.
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• Business Partnerships: Acting as a trusted advisor and building strong relationships with colleagues and the business to drive business performance.
• Communication: Speaking and writing effectively; demonstrating fundamental command of language; communicating well using all mediums.
• Critical Thinking: Identifying and understanding issues, problems and opportunities; using data analysis to draw conclusions; using judgment in choosing a course of action; intellectually curious.
• Customer-Focused: Ensuring that the internal or external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.
• Data Analysis: Identifying, evaluating, interpreting and organizing data so that it can be used for business decisions; sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships.
• Data Operations: Managing, manipulating, and analyzing data throughout its lifecycle; deriving meaningful insights and supporting decision-making through the collection, storage, retrieval, transformation, and visualization of data.
• Data Reporting: Accessing information from databases, forms, and other sources, and preparing reports according to requirements.
• Digital Transformation: Adopting digital technology to transform services or businesses through replacing non-digital or manual processes with digital processes or replacing older digital technology with newer digital technology.
• Influencing Others: The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.
• Metrics Management: The process of monitoring performance indicators that demonstrate how effectively a unit/business/function/company is achieving key objectives.
• Work Management: Take ownership of actions and behaviors. Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently. Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. It involves a juggling act of various demands upon a person relating to work, social life, family, hobbies, personal interests, and commitments with the finiteness of time. Using time effectively gives the person "choice" on spending or managing activities at their own time and expediency.

Responsibilities

• Acquires, validates, and transforms data from approved source systems to create reliable reporting datasets for dashboards and recurring reports; document assumptions and refresh logic.
• Performs descriptive and diagnostic analysis to explain KPI movement, identify drivers, and surface exceptions that should be highlighted in dashboards and recurring reporting.
• Develops repeatable calculations/metrics (e.g., KPI definitions, measures) used consistently across dashboards and reports.
• Applies basic statistical/variance checks to validate reporting outputs, detect anomalies, and support auditability of reported results.
• Designs, builds, and maintains Power BI dashboards and standardized reporting outputs that are consistent, auditable, and easy to interpret across planning cycles and locations.
• Gathers requirements, prototype visuals, and communicate insights and dashboard changes to stakeholders; provide lightweight user guidance to improve adoption and correct interpretation.
• Ensures integrity and quality of reporting data through validation checks, reconciliation, and refresh monitoring; troubleshoot data issues with source system owners/IT.
• Partners with planning, operations, and commercial teams to prioritize reporting needs and deliver dashboards/reports aligned to agreed KPI definitions and standards.
• Continuously improves reporting processes by reducing manual steps, improving refresh reliability, and simplifying end-user workflows.
• Follows established data governance and reporting standards; contribute documentation (definitions, lineage, logic) so reporting outputs are fit for use.
• Contributes to sustainable reporting data pipelines and automation by defining requirements, testing outputs, and coordinating with IT/data engineering on refresh and performance improvements.
• Maintains standardized KPI definitions and calculation logic used across dashboards and recurring reports.
• Owns dashboard lifecycle activities: versioning, release notes, user feedback intake, and iterative enhancements.
• Builds “delta views”/comparisons between scenarios or periods to support decision support reporting.
• Develops monitoring/communication reporting tools that support the Plan-to-Produce process (reporting outputs, templates, and recurring distributions).

Benefits

• Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com.
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level