Marathon Petroleum Company LP is hiring a Data Analyst for its Central Commercial Management Data & Insights team. The role supports the Commercial organization by improving data trust and access to actionable insights through analytics, data solutions, and process improvements.
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required
Zero (0) to two (2) years of experience required
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
Preferred
a preference in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related
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
Benefit
Access to health, vision, and dental insurance
Paid time off
401k matching program
Paid parental leave
Educational reimbursement
Eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream and midstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio.