Strategic Workforce Planning Leader

drive for MPC; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Manager to lead and mature the enterprise SWP capability. You will own the methodology, governance, and planning cycle, translating business priorities into long-range demand, supply, and skills scenarios.

You will partner with executives to drive data-driven decisions that shape talent investment across the company. The role emphasizes building a high-performing team, influencing senior leaders, and embedding

Qualifications

• 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.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Strategic workforce planning

Leadership

Forecasting

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Workforce analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Manager to lead and mature the enterprise SWP capability. You will own the methodology, governance, and planning cycle, translating business priorities into long-range demand, supply, and skills scenarios.

You will partner with executives to drive data-driven decisions that shape talent investment across the company. The role emphasizes building a high-performing team, influencing senior leaders, and embedding