Data Analyst / Senior Data Analyst

About the Role

Join Marathon Petroleum Corporation's Value Chain Optimization team to leverage data analytics and provide vital insights that support business decision-making. This position focuses on creating and maintaining dashboards and reporting outputs that reflect value chain performance and planning outcomes. The role works closely with stakeholders to ensure data quality, reliability, and adoption of reporting tools across locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Acquire and validate data from authorized sources to develop dependable datasets for dashboards and recurring reports, documenting assumptions and logic behind data refreshes.
• Conduct descriptive and diagnostic analyses to interpret key performance indicator (KPI) trends, identify influencing factors, and highlight exceptions in reporting formats.
• Create and maintain repeatable metric calculations and KPI definitions consistently across multiple reports and dashboards.
• Apply basic statistical and variance analyses to validate outputs, identify anomalies, and support audit compliance.
• Design, build, and upkeep Power BI dashboards and standardized reporting products that are clear, auditable, and consistent across business cycles.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, prototype visualizations, communicate insights, and provide user guidance to enhance dashboard adoption and correct interpretation.
• Maintain data integrity by performing validation checks, reconciliations, monitoring refreshes, and resolving data issues with system and IT teams.
• Partner with planning, operations, and commercial teams to prioritize reporting needs aligning with standardized KPI definitions and data governance policies.
• Streamline reporting processes by reducing manual interventions, increasing refresh reliability, and simplifying workflows for end-users.
• Contribute to data governance by documenting data flows, definitions, lineage, and ensuring reporting outputs meet analytical standards.
• Support sustainable data pipeline automation through requirement setting, output testing, and collaboration with IT and data engineering teams.
• Manage dashboard lifecycle including version control, release documentation, user feedback incorporation, and iterative improvements.
• Develop comparison views for scenarios or time periods to aid decision support reporting.
• Create monitoring and communication tools for the Plan-to-Produce process involving templates and scheduled report distributions.

Education and Experience

• Data Analyst: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field plus minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
• Senior Data Analyst: Bachelor’s degree in the mentioned areas plus at least 4 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency in Microsoft SQL and strong data management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.
• Strong enthusiasm for delivering trusted, user-friendly dashboards and standardized reports that enhance visibility and decision-making.
• Experience translating business questions into defined KPIs, scalable reports, and maintainable dashboard designs.
• Familiarity with analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Alteryx, including expertise in data transformation, metric creation, and performance tuning.
• Track record of producing consistent, auditable reports with documented logic and validation.
• Competence in handling complex, high-volume multi-source data and conveying quantitative analysis clearly and effectively.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems under ambiguous or incomplete information, employing a flexible analytic mindset.

Core Competencies

• Adaptability to changing environments and responsibilities.
• Ability to build trusted business partnerships.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong critical thinking and data analysis abilities.
• Expertise in data operations and reporting processes.
• Driving digital transformation through improved technology and processes.
• Influencing and gaining support for initiatives.
• Managing metrics and adhering to work management principles including time management.

Additional Information

The position is full-time and located onsite primarily in Houston, Texas, with additional opportunities at Findlay, Ohio and San Antonio, Texas. Marathon Petroleum is an Equal Opportunity Employer that encourages applications from diverse backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process upon request. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, paid time off, 401k matching, parental leave, educational reimbursement, and eligibility for annual discretionary bonuses.

Location Address: 539 S Main St, Houston, TX