Lead Product Manager

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Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Lead Product Manager to join our Analytics & Innovation organization.

In this role, you will work closely with Refining IT, Refining business partners, Data Partners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and technical team members to ensure the delivery of high-quality products that meet the needs of our stakeholders within the Refining organization. The Lead Product Manager will be responsible for defining product roadmaps in collaboration with Refining IT, managing Epics and Features that align to those roadmaps, facilitating communication between technical and business stakeholders, providing domain expertise, and supporting continuous improvement. This role specifically entails planning and strategizing future Analytics & Innovation solutions within our enterprise Insights & Discovery Platform that will benefit the Refining organization and the larger enterprise.This position presents an exceptional opportunity to work collaboratively with employees across the company, empowering them to derive valuable insights by effectively harnessing Marathon's extensive data assets and driving tangible business value. To excel in this role, the ideal candidate will possess above average communication skills, maintain high work standards, and be able to operate in a fast paced and dynamic work environment.

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

• Develops customer and internal facing product development strategies with superior user experience across multiple verticals, including vision goals, and customer needs; accountable for complex/critical product and/or product lines, up to an entire portfolio of products.
• Has accountability for leading the development of product roadmaps, prioritizing feature releases, and aligning them with business objectives. Drives cross-functional collaboration to gather insights, prioritize initiatives, and plan releases effectively.
• Collaborates closely with portfolio teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to proactively identify and address challenges that arise during product development, ensuring successful execution of the product strategy.
• Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addressing and resolving issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, analytics, and customer support teams.
• Organizes stakeholder priorities and works with teams in order to align needs with resources ensuring cadence with customer value, business value, and strategic fit. Consults with leadership, and various teams to provide value-driven priority and strategic decision-making.
• Prioritizes the product backlog, processes and release plan for multiple features for a complex or higher profile product and plans the coordination of interdependencies with scrum teams and across lines of business.
• Works with other teams, ensures team is aligned around similar goals and objectives / cross-team prioritization. Carries out ongoing analysis of product capability themes in order to support product direction.
• Delivers product innovation, definition, deliverables planning (roadmap), and design of entirely new products to deliver against team and company goals.
• Interprets and communicates product development builds on cross-departmental knowledge and puts the customer at the heart of all product changes.
• Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addresses and resolves issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, marketing, analytics, and customer support teams, as needed.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience required. MBA or equivalent preferred.
• Industry experience in Refining operations preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant product manager experience required.

Skills

Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.

Product Lifecycle Management - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.

Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.

Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement, or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.

Human-Centered Design - An approach to problem solving, commonly used in design and management frameworks that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process.

Product Strategy - The process of outlining a company's strategic vision for its product offerings by stating where the products are going, how they will get there, and why they will succeed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience. 7+ years of relevant experience

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Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Additional locations:

San Antonio, Texas

Job Requisition ID:

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Education:

Bachelors: Information Technology

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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About Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.