Senior Product Owner, Source to Pay

About the Role

As a Senior Product Owner at MPC, you will be responsible for organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for Agile teams while driving the strategic direction, roadmap, and delivery of critical Source to Receipt and Enterprise Payables capabilities. This role serves as the product leader for the supply chain, procurement, inventory management, and accounts payables domains, partnering closely with business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions that improve operational efficiency, financial outcomes, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Builds customer and internal-facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
• Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
• Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Research and Development, User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
• Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions, and continuously performs trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
• Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products.
• Conducts customer research, product discovery, and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges and opportunities.
• Collects quantitative data and takes a data-driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives, ensuring stories clearly communicate customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product.
• Promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems preferred, related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience required.
• Experience supporting Source to Receipt, Enterprise Payables (Source to Pay/Procure to Pay) business capabilities is required.
• Experience with SAP MM (Materials Management) and SAP Procurement and Accounts Payables preferred.
• Experience within the energy, manufacturing, or transportation industries preferred.
• Product Owner Certification (CSPO, PSPO) preferred.

Skills

• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment.
• AI Fundamentals: Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases.
• Change Management: Systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment.
• Agile Methodology: Iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle.
• Authentic Communicator: Expresses ideas and information clearly and credibly, both verbally and in writing.
• Backlog Management: Prioritizing and managing a list of work for the development team.
• Business Acumen: Applying knowledge of MPC's business, industry, and the marketplace to advance organizational goals.
• Decision Making: Ability to make timely and effective decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Industry Product Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of products and services within the energy industry.
• Product Development: Creation, innovation, enhancement, or improvement of products.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Handling of a product through its typical stages of development, growth, maturity, and decline.
• User Experience (UX): Ensuring a positive and intuitive user experience in product design.

Location: San Antonio, Texas | Additional locations: Findlay, Ohio

Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred

Employee Group: Full time