Law Contracts Advisor/ Senior Law Contracts Advisor

About the role

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is currently seeking a Law Contracts Advisor/Senior Law Contracts Advisor within Marathon’s Law Business Operations – Midstream group. The Law Contracts Advisor serves as a trusted business partner, providing commercial and contractual expertise across a wide range of agreements. This role is responsible for negotiating contracts, managing risk, improving contract processes, and supporting business stakeholders to drive successful outcomes for Marathon Petroleum and MPLX LP.

Responsibilities

• Advance MPLX’s interests through negotiation of high-quality agreements that ensure economic protection and rationality, relational success, image and reputation, stability and maximize transaction efficiency.
• Provide commercial and contractual support on matters regarding contract commitments, including contract strategy, risk management, preparation, and negotiation of contracts, claims avoidance, contract compliance and administration.
• Interpret, draft, and negotiate contract building blocks (“redlines”).
• Drive continuous improvement in contracting space to minimize the overall cycle time from request to contract execution, including process re-engineering, developing alternative language (playbook) for use, assisting with template development, and developing checklists.
• Capture applicable business interests, issues, and positions as they relate to model contract selection, required risk allocation and negotiations.
• Analyze contracts, including non-standardized, third-party contracts, for form and content; evaluate contractual content of proposals; provide interpretation of contract language; draft internal contracts or responses to external contracts; evaluate need for additional legal review.
• Participate in negotiation meetings to establish mutually acceptable contract terms with counterparties; carry out detailed research, make appropriate contacts with outside companies and provide a comprehensive plan of action to accomplish contractual objectives; develop cooperative partnerships with counterparts at key counterparties.
• Coordinate and engage in cross-organizational communications with other operating departments to draft appropriate responses to external contracts.
• Drive changes to the contract process that improves organization and process control; develop contract strategies and philosophies for the full variety of company contractual requirements; engage and work with Business Development, Asset Development, Accounting, Land, and other applicable organizations to design and implement improvements to the contract process.
• Reduce contract risk through review of the general terms and conditions; track trends with respect to areas of contractual disagreement with counterparties and analyze and suggest potential solutions to same.
• Perform initial reviews; coordinate contracting activities with Asset Development, Accounting, Land and Law.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and two (2) or more years of relevant experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Education, experience and training desired in law, compliance, contract management, or business management.

Skills

• Ability to identify complex problems and effectively partner with stakeholders to develop, evaluate, and implement solutions.
• Ability to juggle multiple matters and effectively prioritize work to ensure completion in a timely and efficient manner.
• Strong people skills and a collaborative, team-oriented attitude.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Desire to learn and open to feedback.

This position belongs to a job progression with increasing responsibility, competency and skill level. Final position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Pay range: $80,800.00 – $139,500.00