Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Marathon Petroleum Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Paid time off

401k matching

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Manager to lead MPC’s enterprise SWP capability, including methodology, governance, technology enablement, and planning cycles across the enterprise. You will partner with executives and HR to translate workforce insights into clear actions and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include owning the SWP operating model, leading forums, and guiding senior leaders on decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in HR, business, finance, analytics, engineering, or related field.
• 10 years of progressive experience in strategic workforce planning or related disciplines.
• 5 years of people leadership with high-performing teams.
• Experience leading multi-year forecasting, scenario planning, and workforce modeling.

Responsibilities

• Owns and evolves the SWP methodology, operating model, governance, and planning cycle.
• Translates business priorities into multi-year demand, supply, skills, capacity, and cost scenarios.
• Leads SWP decision forums and provides evidence-based recommendations to leaders.
• Partners with business/HR to address workforce gaps using build/buy/borrow/bot strategies.
• Builds trusted partnerships across the enterprise and aligns leaders around priorities.
• Coaches and develops a team with clear priorities and accountability.

Skills

Strategic workforce planning

People leadership

Forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

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

MPC is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Manager with demonstrated success building enterprise capabilities, leading high-performing teams, and influencing executive-level business decisions. This role is responsible for leading MPC’s enterprise strategic workforce planning (SWP) capability, including the methodology, governance, technology enablement, and planning cycle across the enterprise. The leader is expected to connect business strategy to future workforce requirements and enables decisions on the capabilities and talent needed to deliver MPC’s strategy. The role leads the SWP Center of Excellence (CoE) and advances SWP as an integrated, sustainable enterprise capability. Partnering with executive and senior leaders across the business, HR, and other enterprise functions, the leader turns complex workforce insights into clear choices, aligned actions, and measurable outcomes.

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

Employee Group: Full time

Employee Subgroup: Regular

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.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at [e-mail]. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation.

Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com. The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

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.