Senior Business Systems Analyst

Findlay, Ohio

San Antonio, Texas

Full time

00023326

An exciting career awaits you

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Position Summary

Help power the movement of energy across the country. As a Senior Business Systems Analyst on Marathon Petroleum's Digital Rail team, you'll play a key role in advancing the technology that supports the safe and efficient transportation of crude oil and refined products. In this highly collaborative role, you'll work alongside business leaders, product owners, vendors, and technology teams to deliver innovative digital solutions that enhance operational efficiency, improve visibility, strengthen compliance, and support critical business decisions. Your work will directly contribute to keeping refineries running and ensuring fuel reaches the communities and customers who depend on it every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops a strong understanding of Rail business processes, including rail services, inside-the-gate operations, gate-to-gate operations, maintenance and reliability, and associated commercial and accounting processes.

• Leads improvement recommendations and presents effectively to senior and executive management and global teams.

• Presents and leads client meetings with the business, development teams, and third-party solution providers. Communicates with senior leaders for understanding and execution of cross-functional complex processes and applications to solve for client requirements.

• Leads business requirements gathering, current- and future-state process mapping, fit-gap analysis, and development of functional specifications for new solutions and enhancements.

• Provides recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.

• Partners with business teams to develop ways to investigate business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.

• Leads and serves as a senior resource on cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.

• Supports product and application lifecycle activities, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, release planning, application support readiness, and retirement of legacy capabilities.

• Coordinates vendor-supported solutions by helping manage functional expectations, issue resolution, enhancement priorities, service performance, and alignment with business needs

• Serves as a resource to colleagues, mentors, and helps improve the team’s abilities around all IT Service Management (ITSM) disciplines deployed.

• Leads the development, execution, and creation of the cross-functional testing strategy, communicating with all stakeholders for technology delivery.

• Leads the planning, conducting, and documenting of user stories, and user feedback. Effectively communicates feedback with senior leaders for technology improvement.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent experience

• Logistics domain knowledge is required, experience with rail operations, transportation, and maintenance & reliability is strongly preferred

• 5+ years of relevant experience required

Skills

• 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.

• Analytical Thinking - Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose effective solutions.

• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.

• Business Analysis - Analyzing current business state within the context of future business state expectations and determining whether new business strategies are needed to address existing issues or meet new needs. Estimating the level of effort to enhance or expand current business strategies.

• Business Partner Relations - The process of acting as a trusted advisor and building strong relationships with colleagues and the business to drive business performance.

• Business Process Modeling & Redesign - Execution of key business process with the objective of achieving a quantum jump in performance measures such as return on investment (ROI), cost reduction, and quality of service.

• Change Management - The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and help individuals, teams and organizations to navigate through change.

• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.

• Incident Management - Ensuring that any incidents affecting processes and performances of relevant technology services or systems are managed appropriately to mitigate risk and minimize disruption.

• Quality Assurance - The process to ensure organizational activities are designed to ensure that an organization is providing the best possible product or service to customers.

• Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change while also communicating to relevant stakeholders.

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high-quality software.

• Specification Development - Understanding the context, stakeholders and requirements or features of a product or application and detailing the specifications around them.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.5+ years of relevant experience

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Additional locations:

San Antonio, Texas

Job Requisition ID:

00023326

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Education:

Bachelors: Information Technology

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 would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here ( . If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at View email address on click.appcast.io . 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 .The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program. Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

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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.