About The Role

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Position Summary

The Lead Career Development Specialist leads the planning, execution, digitization, and sustainment of Career Development Framework (CDF) projects and resources. This position also helps manage the enterprise skills framework, including governance, digitization, adoption, and ongoing maintenance. This role collaborates across the enterprise to establish and maintain a strong CDF foundation by ensuring skills, competencies, proficiency expectations, and career levels are clearly defined, business-aligned, and embedded in talent processes and systems. Building on the CDF, this role helps introduce scalable tools, resources, and repeatable practices that equip employees and leaders to have meaningful career conversations, support development planning, and help employees Drive their Career.

Key Responsibilities

Plans and manages multiple Career Development Framework (CDF) projects in collaboration with the Compensation team, Human Resources Business Partners (HRBPs), business leaders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and internal stakeholders to maintain and evolve the framework.
Creates, applies, and continuously improves a systematic process, enabled by technology, to identify, sustain, and evolve essential skills, competencies, and expected levels of proficiency by job family and career level, ensuring alignment with business strategy, jobs, and future capability needs.
Collaborates with HR and Digital to ensure CDF is digitized in Workday and integrated, where appropriate, across talent processes, Workday tools, and relevant systems.
Collaborates with internal stakeholders in Talent Management, HR and Digital to translate skills data, aligned to the CDF and workforce planning, into actionable and usable insights for development and talent planning.
Supports implementation of skills assessment and other development-focused capabilities in Workday and Career Hub.
Partners with HR and internal communications team to create and execute communications and change readiness plans to build awareness, engagement, and adoption of career development tools (CDF, Career Hub, etc.), skills data, and resources at all levels of the organization, leveraging the Driving Your Career theme and the interconnectivity of talent processes.
Co-creates, launches, and sustains, in collaboration with others in the Talent Management Center of Excellence (COE), a strategy to educate stakeholders about career management tools, best practice resources, repeatable skills processes, skills data usage, and learning programs to build on the CDF foundation and strengthen capabilities around career conversations, employee development, and development planning.
Supports the integration of the CDF and skills data into other people practices and processes, including annual skills assessment, talent inventory, workforce planning, succession planning, learning & development, performance management, and talent acquisition, to enable a holistic approach to career development and actionable talent insights.
Builds and maintains collaborative and productive working relationships throughout the HR community and across the enterprise with stakeholders who share responsibility for career development and participate in skills governance.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree is required. Majors in Human Resources, Applied Training/Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Education, Business, or related fields are preferred.
Six (6) years of relevant work experience required. Skills Management, Career Development, Human Resources, or Learning & Development experience is highly preferred.

Skills

Strong sense of accountability, adaptability, and emotional intelligence.
Authentic communicator; exhibits business acumen and demonstrates critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience planning and organizing multiple projects prioritizing organizational needs to collaborate effectively.
Ability to partner effectively with key internal stakeholders to influence and facilitate change, maintaining commitment to coaching and developing others.
Strong data analysis and reporting skills; demonstrated technical savviness.

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

Location

San Antonio, Texas

Additional locations

Findlay, Ohio

Job Requisition ID

00023681

Location Address

19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

Education

Bachelors (Required)

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 talentacquisition@marathonpetroleum.com . 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 https://mympcbenefits.com .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 laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.