Position SummaryThe Plan-to-Produce Analyst helps improve how Marathon Petroleum connects planning, inventory, logistics, commercial activity, data, and technology across the value chain. As part of the Value Chain Optimization (VCO) organization, this role works across business functions and operating organizations to understand business problems, analyze processes and performance information, define requirements, and translate improvement opportunities into practical business and technology solutions.
In this role, the analyst develops business requirements, analyzes processes and workflows, supports performance measurement and reporting, coordinates business testing, and helps prepare new or improved capabilities for successful implementation and sustained use. The work may include process and workflow improvements, reporting enhancements, automation opportunities, artificial intelligence use cases, and other digital solutions that improve visibility, strengthen decision-making, reduce manual effort, or improve execution.
The position offers broad exposure to enterprise planning and operations, process excellence, analytics, performance management, and technology-enabled transformation. It is well suited for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complex problems, collaborating with stakeholders from different disciplines, and turning business needs into practical improvements.
Direct Plan-to-Produce experience is not required. Successful candidates bring analytical curiosity, clear communication, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to build alignment across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Key Responsibilities- Analyzes business processes, workflows, performance information, and recurring issues to clarify business needs, support problem definition, and inform improvement initiatives across the Plan-to-Produce process.
- Elicits, analyzes, documents, validates, and maintains business and functional requirements for support process improvements, reporting capabilities, workflows, automation, and technology-enabled solutions.
- Translates stakeholder needs into clear process designs, business rules, user stories, reporting requirements, acceptance criteria, and other implementation-ready deliverables.
- Supports performance measurement capabilities through KPI definitions, reporting requirements, scorecards, management review materials, data validation, and business interpretation of results.
- Coordinates business testing, issue resolution, implementation readiness, training, adoption, and post-implementation support to help new or improved capabilities deliver sustained business value.
- Maintains clear process, requirements, decision, and support documentation while partnering with process owners and Standards & Knowledge Management resources to align with approved documentation and governance practices.
- Builds effective working relationships across business functions, operating organizations, and technology teams to align stakeholders, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and move improvements from concept through implementation.
- Supports evaluation and implementation of analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, workflow tools, and other digital capabilities that improve visibility, reduce manual effort, strengthen decisions, or improve process performance.
Minimum Education- Bachelor's degree required.
Minimum ExperienceBusiness Analyst (Plan-to-Produce)
- Two (2) or more years of experience in business analysis, process analysis, business operations, process improvement, performance management, systems administration, project support, analytics, supply chain, accounting, finance, engineering, or related business disciplines.
Senior Business Analyst (Plan-to-Produce)
- Four (4) or more years of experience in business analysis, process analysis, business operations, process improvement, performance management, systems administration, project support, analytics, supply chain, accounting, finance, engineering, or related business disciplines.
Preferred ExperienceExperience in one or more of the following areas is preferred but not required:
- Analyzing business processes, workflows, or performance data.
- Gathering and documenting business or functional requirements.
- Developing KPIs, dashboards, reports, or business insights.
- Supporting business testing, implementation, change adoption, or operational readiness.
- Working with automation, workflow technologies, analytics, artificial intelligence, or other digital capabilities.
- Coordinating work across business and technology stakeholders.
- Working in refining, manufacturing, planning, supply chain, logistics, commercial operations, finance, or another complex operating environment.
- Supporting business process governance, operational controls, or administrative processes.
- Leading or supporting cross-functional initiatives requiring stakeholder alignment and influence without direct authority.
- Managing business capability adoption, operational readiness, sustainment, and continuous improvement activities.
Skills- Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
- Building Partnerships - Developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
- Communication - The ability to speak and write effectively, demonstrates fundamental command of language, communicates well using all mediums.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
- Critical Thinking - Identifying and understanding issues, problems and opportunities; using data analysis to draw conclusions; using judgment in choosing a course of action; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences. 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 Management - Knowledge of governance frameworks for data analytics, including data usage policies, data access controls, and oversight of analytical processes.
- Organizing - Ability to anticipate resource needs and then lay out, prioritize and shape activities to meet objectives. Aligns resources with work plans.
- Project Management - Uses project management processes to clarify the scope of the project, estimate resources and manage the project. Maintains project schedule, identifies task dependencies and plans in advance to overcome project obstacles and constraints. Manages the delivery of the project using complex project management processes. Develops detailed work plans for each phase of project activities that identify task dependencies, resource requirements and a phase timeline.
- Results Driven - Drives operational and process excellence and innovative behavior by empowering others, collaborating, taking appropriate risk, making timely decisions and holding people accountable for results.
- Teamwork - The ability of team members to work well together in every situation and empathize with each other. Teamwork skills consist of interrelated abilities that let you work effectively in an organized group.
- Technical Knowledge - Having achieved a satisfactory level of technical, functional, and/or professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up with current developments and trends in areas of expertise; leveraging expert knowledge to accomplish results.
- Work Standards - Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Additional locations:
Houston, Texas, San Antonio, Texas
Job Requisition ID:
Location Address:
539 S Main St
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Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
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.
