Value Chain Insights Manager

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

28d

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 Value Chain Optimization (VCO) is seeking a highly motivated professional with a passion for commercial optimization and data-driven decision-making. In this role, you will partner with VCO leadership, commercial teams, IT, and external partners to enhance planning capabilities and deliver actionable insights that drive enterprise value. You will lead efforts to translate complex modeling outputs into clear, practical guidance for planners, schedulers, and commercial stakeholders, ensuring alignment and consistency across the organization. This position is responsible for designing and implementing tools, processes, and frameworks that improve comprehension of optimization models, fostering trust in model-driven decisions, and enabling advanced analytics adoption across the fuels value chain. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to simplify technical outputs into impactful business strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, or Data Analytics.
• 8 years of experience in oil and gas or energy markets with emphasis on planning, analysis, and interpretation of optimization models.

Responsibilities

• Serves as enterprise lead for interpreting outputs from linear programming (LP) and planning models, resolving comprehension issues, and guiding high-impact decisions.
• Delivers desk-side and virtual assistance to planners, schedulers, and commercial teams to build confidence in model-based recommendations.
• Ensures insights evolve with model complexity through close collaboration with modeling platform teams.
• Designs and scales dashboards, templates, and reports that make optimization outputs clear, comparable, and timely.
• Implements guided prompts and self-serve queries to uncover actionable insights and improve reporting behavior.
• Defines ownership and timing for distribution of model outputs to ensure single-source-of-truth alignment.
• Conducts structured lookbacks on plan vs. actual, track assumption overrides, and align modeling KPIs with business outcomes.
• Builds and develops a cross-functional team focused on translating technical outputs into actionable commercial and operational guidance.
• Fosters trust and transparency by improving comprehension, scenario readiness, and accountability for model-driven decisions.
• Promotes advanced analytics and digital platforms for end-to-end planning and decision-making across the fuels value chain.

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: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees