Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

An exciting career awaits you 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns the SWP methodology, operating model, standards, governance, and enterprise planning cycle.
• Integrates SWP with strategic, financial, headcount, and talent planning.
• Translates business priorities into multi-year demand, supply, skills, capacity, and cost scenarios.
• Identifies critical gaps and surpluses, challenge assumptions, and frame choices and trade-offs.
• Leads SWP decision forums and provide evidence-based recommendations that enable leaders to make informed workforce decisions and translate them into action.
• Partners with business and HR leaders to address priority workforce and skill gaps through build, buy, borrow, and bot strategies.
• Aligns accountable leaders on actions, investment needs, owners, and measures.
• Builds trusted partnerships across the enterprise, aligns leaders around workforce priorities, and reinforces business ownership for decisions and execution.
• Coaches and develops a team, setting clear priorities and accountabilities, strengthening capability, and ensuring high-quality, timely results.
• Strengthens stakeholder capability and embed SWP through effective tools, processes, and continuous improvement.
• Establishes SWP data, modeling, technology, and reporting standards that enable scalable planning, credible insights, and effective decision‑making.
• Owns the SWP scorecard and reporting cadence.
• Monitor forecast credibility, process health, adoption, decision follow‑through, business impact, and critical‑capability coverage.

Required Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field. Ten (10) years of progressive experience in strategic workforce planning, workforce strategy, workforce analytics, or related disciplines. Five (5) years of people leadership experience with demonstrated success building high‑performing teams and developing talent. Demonstrated success leading strategic workforce planning, including multi‑year forecasting, scenario planning, workforce modeling, and translating insights into business decisions. Demonstrated success building or advancing an enterprise capability and driving adoption across a large, complex organization. Proven ability to communicate confidently with senior leaders, earn their trust, offer advice, respectfully question assumptions, and influence workforce decisions across the company.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or master’s degree in human resources, organization development, analytics, business, or a related field preferred
• Relevant strategic workforce planning, process improvement, or project management certification.
• Experience in energy, industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or another complex operating environment.
• Experience with skills‑based workforce planning, organization design, and workforce transformation.
• Experience with workforce planning, analytics, and enabling technologies.

Travel

Client travel is required throughout the year, with frequency dependent on business needs. Up to 50%

Location

San Antonio, Texas Additional locations: Findlay, Ohio, Houston, Texas

Location Address and Employment Details

Location Address: 19100 Ridgewood Pkwy Education: Bachelors (Required) Employee Group: Full time Employee Subgroup: Regular

Benefits

• Access to health, vision, and dental insurance
• Paid time off
• 401k matching program
• Paid parental leave
• Educational reimbursement
• Detail benefit information available at
• Discretionary company‑sponsored annual bonus program

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

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.

Accommodation Requests

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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.