Lead Product Manager

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Position Summary

Midstream IT is seeking a Lead Product Manager to drive the Pipeline Product Line toward continued success. This product line consists of four teams delivering digital technologies across a critical suite of business capabilities that deliver outcomes across broad and dynamic value chains.

The Lead Product Manager ensures strategic alignment by developing and maintaining a cohesive roadmap that strengthens business capabilities and achieves targeted OKRs and business objectives. By championing efforts across products platforms and multiple business units the Lead Product Manager creates a clear vision that remains focused on the most value-added initiatives and priorities adapting as needed to accelerate and realize value.

This position places strong emphasis on digital innovation and accountability for measurable outcomes. The Lead Product Manager works collaboratively to generate and evaluate new ideas that bolster competitive advantage and improve the digital experience. The role horizontally connects business leaders product owners architects and experts to plan and execute strategies fostering relationships that translate concepts into impactful solutions.

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 candidates experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops customer and internal facing product development strategies with superior user experience across multiple verticals including vision goals and customer needs; accountable for complex / critical product and / or product lines up to an entire portfolio of products.
• Has accountability for leading the development of product roadmaps prioritizing feature releases and aligning them with business objectives. Drives cross-functional collaboration to gather insights prioritize initiatives and plan releases effectively.
• Collaborates closely with portfolio teams stakeholders and business leaders to proactively identify and address challenges that arise during product development ensuring successful execution of the product strategy.
• Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addressing and resolving issues fostering effective communication and promoting alignment between business and operations teams UX design product engineering analytics and customer support teams.
• Organizes stakeholder priorities and works with teams in order to align needs with resources ensuring cadence with customer value business value and strategic fit. Consults with leadership and various teams to provide value-driven priority and strategic decision-making.
• Prioritizes the product backlog processes and release plan for multiple features for a complex or higher profile product and plans the coordination of interdependencies with scrum teams and across lines of business.
• Works with other teams ensures team is aligned around similar goals and objectives / cross-team prioritization. Carries out ongoing analysis of product capability themes in order to support product direction.
• Delivers product innovation definition deliverables planning (roadmap) and design of entirely new products to deliver against team and company goals.
• Interprets and communicates product development builds on cross-departmental knowledge and puts the customer at the heart of all product changes.
• Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addresses and resolves issues fostering effective communication and promoting alignment between business and operations teams UX design product engineering marketing analytics and customer support teams as needed.

Education and Experience

Exposure to Operational Technology (OT) and / or business-critical infrastructure or systems

Skills

Agile Methodologies - 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 team knows what to deliver first.

Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPCs business industry and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPCs strategy.

Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment.

Human-Centered Design - An approach to problem solving commonly used in design and management frameworks that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process.

Industry Product Knowledge - Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features functionalities applications and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. Industry product knowledge is crucial for professionals working in sales marketing customer service product development and various other roles within a company. It enables individuals to effectively communicate the value propositions of products address customer inquiries identify market trends make informed business decisions and contribute to the development and improvement of products and services within the industry. This knowledge often requires staying updated with the latest advancements technologies and market dynamics within the specific industry domain.

Market Trend Analysis - The ability to analyze data that exhibits an ongoing upward or downward pattern that is not due to seasonality or random noise. Able to analyze trends in detecting patterns that could lead to future quality problems and in forecasting future demand periods

Marketing - Knowledge of Marketing the process of planning and executing conception pricing promotion and distribution of goods ideas and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals. Understanding of marketing research consumer marketing customer marketing and product marketing.

Product Development - The creation innovation enhancement or improvement of an existing product or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life : development and introduction growth maturity / stability and decline.

Product Strategies - The process of outlining a companys strategic vision for its product offerings by stating where the products are going how they will get there and why they will succeed.

Storytelling - The process of communicating information tailored to a specific audience with a compelling narrative.

Vendor Management - The process to maintain relationships with key vendors that deliver products services and support to the business. Simultaneously negotiating and managing contracts with key service providers to ensure service levels are set appropriately and met on an ongoing basis.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS : Bachelors Degree in Information Technology related field or equivalent experience.7 years of relevant experience

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Location : San Antonio Texas

Additional locations :

Findlay Ohio

Job Requisition ID : Location Address :

19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

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 . 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

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 reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.

Required Experience :

IC

Key Skills

Time Management,Data Analytics,Analytical,Agile,Requirement Gathering,Strategic thinking,Visio,Communication,Problem Solving,Market Research,UML,Cross Functional Teams

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1