Lead Portfolio Manager, Digital
Marathon Petroleum
- Location
- San Antonio TX
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
- Aug 28, 2026
Skills
About this role
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 The Digital Portfolio Manager is responsible for supporting the planning, prioritization, governance, and performance visibility of MPC’s digital portfolio. This role helps translate digital strategy into an organized, transparent portfolio of initiatives by partnering with business, Digital, Finance, and technology stakeholders to monitor demand, capacity, funding, risks, dependencies, and value realization. The position provides leaders with clear portfolio insights, reporting, and recommendations to support informed decision-making, resource alignment, and execution discipline across digital initiatives. This role also helps mature portfolio management practices by improving portfolio processes, documentation, metrics, and stakeholder engagement to ensure digital investments are aligned to business outcomes and enterprise priorities. 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
Supports large and/or complex portfolios, leads up to a portfolio team to ensures initiatives are managed according to established processes, from idea to completion, while identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and transparency. Facilitates and/or contributes to portfolio strategy. Optimizes portfolio organization to meet strategic initiatives efficiently and effectively. Advises and collaborates with leadership on delivery structures, including individuals, teams, and teams-of-teams. Identifies and generates reporting mechanisms to best communicate to stakeholders a visualization of the strategy execution within the company and department. Guides and contributes to strategic portfolio roadmap and objective creation. Applies governance and risk mitigation to improve portfolio throughput and quality without reducing processing time. Shares best practices in portfolio governance and risk mitigation across the organization. Seeks, establishes, and drives emerging opportunities to keep portfolio stakeholders involved and informed on initiative status, impediments, objectives, roadmaps, etc. Facilitates and/or contributes to the creation of portfolio documentation; recommends improvement and shares best practices. Proactively learns and applies new concepts in Lean-Agile Portfolio Management; Demonstrates progress through metrics and measurable results. Coaches and mentors other Portfolio Managers, leader and stakeholders; shares best practices across the organization.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience. Relevant certification or training required; advanced certification preferred 7+ years of experience required.
Skills
Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful. AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination. Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change. 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. Business Acumen - Applies