Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

Marathon Petroleum Company (MPC) is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Manager to lead the enterprise SWP capability, including its methodology, governance, technology enablement, and planning cycle. The role connects business strategy to future workforce requirements and supports decisions about the capabilities and talent needed to deliver MPC’s strategy. The manager leads the SWP Center of Excellence and advances SWP as an integrated, sustainable enterprise capability. Working with executive and senior leaders across the business, HR, and other enterprise functions, the manager turns complex workforce insights into clear choices, aligned actions, and measurable outcomes. The role is based in San Antonio, Texas, with additional listed locations in Findlay, Ohio, and Houston, Texas. Travel is required throughout the year, with frequency based on business needs, up to 50%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; preferred fields include Human Resources, Business, Finance, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
Ten years of progressive experience in strategic workforce planning, workforce strategy, workforce analytics, or related disciplines.
Five years of people leadership experience, with demonstrated success building high-performing teams and developing talent.
Demonstrated success leading strategic workforce planning, including multi-year forecasting, scenario planning, workforce modeling, and translating insights into business decisions.
Demonstrated success building or advancing an enterprise capability and driving adoption across a large, complex organization.
Proven ability to communicate confidently with senior leaders, earn their trust, offer advice, respectfully question assumptions, and influence workforce decisions across the company.

Nice To Haves

MBA or master’s degree in human resources, organization development, analytics, business, or a related field.
Relevant strategic workforce planning, process improvement, or project management certification.
Experience in energy, industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or another complex operating environment.
Experience with skills-based workforce planning, organization design, and workforce transformation.
Experience with workforce planning, analytics, and enabling technologies.

Responsibilities

Own the SWP methodology, operating model, standards, governance, and enterprise planning cycle.
Integrate SWP with strategic, financial, headcount, and talent planning.
Translate business priorities into multi-year demand, supply, skills, capacity, and cost scenarios.
Identify critical gaps and surpluses, challenge assumptions, and frame choices and trade-offs.
Lead SWP decision forums and provide evidence-based recommendations to support informed workforce decisions and action.
Partner with business and HR leaders to address priority workforce and skill gaps through build, buy, borrow, and bot strategies.
Align accountable leaders on actions, investment needs, owners, and measures.
Build trusted enterprise partnerships, align leaders around workforce priorities, and reinforce business ownership for decisions and execution.
Coach and develop a team by setting priorities and accountabilities, strengthening capability, and ensuring high-quality, timely results.
Strengthen stakeholder capability and embed SWP through effective tools, processes, and continuous improvement.
Establish SWP data, modeling, technology, and reporting standards that support scalable planning, credible insights, and effective decisions.
Own the SWP scorecard and reporting cadence.
Monitor forecast credibility, process health, adoption, decision follow-through, business impact, and critical-capability coverage.