Inventory Controller - Salt Lake City Refinery

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The Inventory Controller serves as the site-level inventory planning and material coordination lead for the Salt Lake City Refinery. This role is responsible for managing maintenance, turnaround, project, and operational demand into inventory and supply actions that support safe, reliable, and competitive refinery operations. The Inventory Controller acts as the primary interface between Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain teams to ensure material availability, inventory, and replenishment decisions are aligned with equipment criticality, lead time risk, supplier capability, and site execution priorities. The successful individual will be located in Salt Lake City, UT and report to the Supply Chain Director.

• •Reviews and replenishes inventory, and reviews and converts Turnaround and Project demand requirements, at one refinery. Converts planned orders to purchase requisitions for sourcing and procurement. Schedules transfers from same plant to fulfill requirements. Schedules transfers from other plants to fulfill requirements. Converts repairable items for in-house repair or third-party repair.
• •Performs robust and hands-on inventory reviews to include stockouts and items at risk of stockouts, inventory optimization, ABC classifications, forecasting demand based on planned activities or seasonality, supplier stocking programs such as VMI and Consignment opportunities, unfulfilled or canceled work order reservations and affected inventories, surplus stock, and obsolete stock.
• •Participates, identifies, and leads inventory management continuous improvement projects aimed at optimizing inventory.
• •Provides support for Company audits and Supply Chain compliance control reviews as needed.
• •Establishes and maintains close professional relationships with key stakeholders:
• •Cultivates deep and up to date understanding of specific stakeholder needs, and serves as single point of contact to help CSAs interpret those needs
• •Cultivates deep and up to date understanding of CSA activities, and serves as single point of contact to help stakeholders maintain awareness of the status of those activities
• •Generally serves as liaison between warehouse, CSA teams, and stakeholders.

• •Uses knowledge of stakeholder needs and CSA capabilities to manage and prioritize exception handling tasks for the CSA team.
• •Performs CSA duties for assigned categories, including but not limited to sourcing strategy development and implementation, RFP/RFQ planning and execution, supplier negotiations, supplier relationship management, quantitative analysis, and PO creation and management.
• •Supports Warehouse Manager in the conduct of their duties, including but not limited to supervising Warehouse Supervisors and/or Warehouse Techs, overseeing daily warehouse operations (GRs, GIs, picks, putaways, cycle counts, QA/QC, heavy equipment use, etc.), material management strategy development and execution, compliance with legal or company requirements, budget development and compliance, and backfilling the Warehouse Manager during absences.

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• •High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.
• •Four (4) or more years of Supply Chain or business relevant experience.

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Location:

Salt Lake City, Utah

Additional locations:

Job Requisition ID:

00024804

Location Address:

474 W 900 N

Education:

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.

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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.