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Position Summary
Do you have a quantitative background? Do you like to solve business problems through data? Marathon Petroleum Company LP (MPC) has an opening in our Commercial organization for a data expert. The Central Commercial Management Data & Insights team’s mission is to provide exceptional, cutting-edge analytics and meaningful insights to empower our Commercial organization to thrive and achieve unparalleled success. We do that by enhancing the trust and confidence in the data and analytics within Commercial, reducing barriers to timely, actionable insights.
This role will work closely with Quantitative Analytics teams; the ideal candidate will have a passion to gain experience in that area.
This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
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
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree required, with a preference in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or related.
Senior Data Analyst – Grade 11 Four (4) years experience required.
Lead Data Analyst – Grade 12 Six (6) years experience required.
Preferred:
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.
Experience with data transformation tools such as SQL, ADF, Synapse, Power Query, M, Databricks or others.
Exposure to business intelligence self-service analytics software tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Exposure to quantitative, statistical, econometric, or machine learning models used to predict outcomes and evaluate alternatives.
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…