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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.

• 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.

• 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.

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Additional locations:

Houston, Texas, San Antonio, Texas

Job Requisition ID:

00019993

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Education:

Bachelors (Required)

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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.