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Position Summary

Do you have a quantitative background? Do you like to solve business problems through data? Marathon Petroleum Company LP (MPC) has an opening in our Commercial organization for a data expert. The Central Commercial Management Data & Insights team’s mission is to provide exceptional, cutting-edge analytics and meaningful insights to empower our Commercial organization to thrive and achieve unparalleled success. We do that by enhancing the trust and confidence in the data and analytics within Commercial, reducing barriers to timely, actionable insights.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business partners to deliver sustainable solutions for analytics and process improvements
• Understands business processes and related data sources, models data for reuse across analyst groups
• Supports analytics data solutions; works with system support teams to correct and/or enhance data
• Acquires, cleans, and preprocesses raw data from various sources to ensure accuracy and reliability; maintain knowledge of key systems and query those systems for data
• Conducts in-depth analysis of large datasets to extract meaningful insights and trends
• Develops and implements analytical models to forecast future trends and outcomes
• Performs statistical analysis to identify patterns and correlations in the data
• Creates visually compelling and easy-to-understand dashboards and reports
• Communicates findings to stakeholders through charts, graphs, and presentations
• Ensures integrity and quality of data through regular audits and validation processes
• Works closely with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver insights
• Drives continuous improvement in business processes and data analytics best practices
• Establishes and supports data governance to ensure data is fit for optimum use by the organization
• Partners and leads initiatives to build sustainable data pipelines, automations, and advanced analytics solutions

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree required, with a preference in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related.
• Zero (0) to two (2) years of experience required.

Preferred:

• Strong communication and time management skills.
• Strong passion for answering difficult questions with data. Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches to generate positive business results.
• 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 Power BI or Tableau.
• Exposure to data transformation tools such as SQL, ADF, Synapse, Power Query, M, Databricks or others.
• 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.

Skills

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Travel: Up to 10%

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Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship  or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.  If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at [email protected]. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.