Manager, US Crude Commercial Scheduling

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future   The Manager, US Crude Commercial Scheduling, will work in an open, fast-paced environment with a team of Schedulers and Traders in Houston to optimize crude oil supply throughout Phillips 66’s refining system and commercial businesses. We are seeking a talented, results-oriented individual who strives for excellence and sees every day as an opportunity for personal and professional growth. Attention to detail and accuracy is critical. This position is a people leader within the Global Scheduling organization and reports directly to the Sr Manager, NA Crude Scheduling.   This role is responsible for a team of Schedulers who manage commercial operations of the PSX Refining and Trading system, in addition to being responsible for individual crude scheduling activities for the Lake Charles desk. The Coastal team withing US Crude Scheduling consists of responsibilities for crude oil movements related to the following desks: Beaumont/Houston, US Exports, Lake Charles Refinery, Sweeny Refinery, Bayway Refinery, and Ferndale Refinery.   At Phillips 66, Lead Forward is our leadership approach. It defines how leaders show up, make decisions, and support their teams while delivering results in a complex, fast ‑ changing environment.   Leaders at this level focus on setting clear direction, building trust, and helping their teams succeed. You’re expected to act with integrity, make timely and thoughtful decisions, and take ownership of outcomes while supporting collaboration across teams. This role is about leading people well, even when priorities change or the path forward isn’t always clear.   What You’ll Do

Lead and supervise a team of schedulers responsible for logistics associated with US supply and trading activities for crude oil, including the following tasks:

Set goals that challenge and develop schedulers. Provide continuous coaching and talent enhancement opportunities. Provide vacation relief coverage as needed on a 24/7 basis and assist in managing US wide scheduler vacation relief plan. Provide on-call support and be available to react to dynamic operations, at times outside of core business hours. Be a champion for change management and cultivate a continuous learning culture. Hold self and schedulers accountable to meeting scheduling excellence metrics. Oversee and hold schedulers accountable to key value-impacting tasks, such as 3rd party pipeline nomination processes.

Act with intention and focus on value-generation for Phillips 66 Commercial and Refining, including:

Lead our scheduling resources and system operation to maximize general interest value across the assigned responsibilities with consideration to profit and operational risk. Help create value by optimizing supply/demand portfolio, batch trading while increasing transportation efficiency and minimizing per-barrel transportation costs.

Oversee inventory management activities related to individually assigned desk as well as those of the scheduling team, including but not limited to the following tasks:

Schedule, nominate, and confirm movements via various distribution channels through internal and third-party scheduling systems for pipelines, tanks, rail, waterborne, and other modes of transportation. Prepare and maintain daily the monthly supply/demand balance and lease forecasts required to plan around the supply, markets, and pipelines disruptions, and provide updates on positions and respond to unexpected events, making contingency plans to minimize disruption to supply or movements. Manage, update, and tie out SAP with crude oil movements from nominations to shipper Balance actuals. Prepare, confirm, and submit weekly system inventory levels vs targets for the Supply and Trading businesses. Monitor gains/losses of physical transactions and lead investigations into significant discrepancies with appropriate external