Senior Product Owner, Source to Pay

Marathon Petroleum; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum is seeking a Senior Product Owner to organize, prioritize, and assess work for Agile teams across Source to Receipt and Enterprise Payables. You will drive strategy, roadmaps, and measurable business value while partnering with business stakeholders and delivery teams.

The role focuses on SAP MM, SAP Procurement and Accounts Payables, and Open Text VIM to modernize the procure-to-pay value chain and improve efficiency and customer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Source to Receipt and Enterprise Payables.
• Experience with SAP MM and SAP Procurement and Accounts Payables.
• Experience in energy, manufacturing, or transportation industries preferred.
• Product Owner Certification (CSPO, PSPO) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Builds customer and internal-facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals.
• Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
• Collaborate with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
• Works with cross-functional teams to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
• Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and conducts trade-offs to stay on track.
• Prioritizes short-term feature backlog and long-term product roadmap.
• Conducts customer research and<S> product discovery to synthesize market factors into strategy.
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
• Collects quantitative data to evaluate viability of product initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories to support initiatives; communicates customer/stakeholder needs for business objectives.

Skills

Adaptability

AI Fundamentals

Change Management

Agile Methodology

Authentic Communicator

Backlog Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field

5+ years of relevant experience

Experience with Source to Receipt/Enterprise Payables

SAP MM and SAP Procurement/Accounts Payables

Energy/manufacturing/transportation industry experience

Product Owner Certification (CSPO/PSPO)

Tools

SAP MM

SAP Procurement & Accounts Payables

Open Text Vendor Invoice Management

Job description

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.

Position Summary

A Senior Product Owner is responsible for organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for Agile teams while driving the strategic direction, roadmap, and delivery of critical Source to Receipt and Enterprise Payables capabilities. This role serves as the product leader for the supply chain, procurement, inventory management and accounts payables domains, partnering closely with business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions that improve operational efficiency, financial outcomes, and customer experience.

The Senior Product Owner is accountable for translating business strategy into actionable product roadmaps, managing and prioritizing backlogs, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, and ensuring delivery of measurable business value.

This position partners with business and technology teams to optimize and modernize solutions leveraging SAP Procurement, SAP Ariba, SAP Materials Management, SAP Accounts Payables, Open Text Vendor Invoice Management etc. across the entire source to pay and procure to pay value chain, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, compliance requirements, and organizational objectives. The Senior Product Owner drives continuous improvement, supports digital transformation initiatives, and enables delivery teams to successfully execute against product commitments while advancing the long‑term vision for these capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Builds customer and internal‑facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
• Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
• Collaborate with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
• Works collaboratively with cross‑functional teams, such as Research and Development, User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
• Identifies product‑related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade‑off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
• Prioritizes the short‑term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long‑term product roadmap for products.
• Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
• Collaborate with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
• Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer, and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in information systems preferred, related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience required
• Experience supporting Source to Receipt, Enterprise Payables (Source to Pay/Procure to Pay) business capabilities is required
• Experience with SAP MM (Materials Management) and SAP Procurement and Accounts Payables preferred
• Experience within the energy, manufacturing, or transportation industries preferred.
• Product Owner Certification (CSPO, PSPO) preferred.

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.
• AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job‑relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
• Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• 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 tea