Manager, US Crude Commercial Scheduling

Phillips 66 • Houston, TX

1d • $175,500 - $214,500 • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• Bachelor's Degree or higher
• 6 or more years of experience in the energy sector supporting supply, trading, or logistical functions
• 5 or more years in a Commercial or Midstream scheduling role
• 2 or more years of experience with waterborne operations
• Intermediate or greater proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite skills

Nice To Haves

• 3 or more years of supervisory experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills with capability of influencing others to achieve desired results and common goals
• Dedication to achieve team goals, increase general interest value to the company and support internal and external customers
• Ability to adapt to changing work environments and make continuous improvements
• Ability to set, manage, and prioritize multiple assignments that are broad in scope and complexity
• Existing knowledge of US crude oil logistics
• Background using systems such as SAP, Alteryx, and Tableau
• Excel Macro building proficiency and advanced Excel preferred
• Good understanding of downstream operations, supply chains, and value drivers
• Strong organizational and time management skills that will contribute to meeting daily and monthly deadlines
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to support business-focused analysis and decisions
• High degree of ethics, personal drive, and dedication to achieve team goals, increase general interest value to the company, and support internal and external customers

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a team of schedulers responsible for logistics associated with US supply and trading activities for crude oil, including setting goals that challenge and develop schedulers, providing continuous coaching and talent enhancement opportunities, providing vacation relief coverage as needed on a 24/7 basis and assisting in managing US wide scheduler vacation relief plan, providing on-call support and being available to react to dynamic operations, at times outside of core business hours, being a champion for change management and cultivating a continuous learning culture, holding self and schedulers accountable to meeting scheduling excellence metrics, and overseeing and holding 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 leading scheduling resources and system operation to maximize general interest value across the assigned responsibilities with consideration to profit and operational risk, and helping 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 scheduling, nominating, and confirming 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 and internal counterparties, with a focus on root cause analysis and error rate reduction over time.
• Oversee the year-end inventory process for self and team, managing to annual targets and reporting accordingly.
• Act as a liaison between accounting/billing personnel and traders: aid in the resolution of price discrepancies, contract issues, payment terms, volume differences, etc.
• Support resolution of Book-to-book and Book-to-Physical activities for self and team, addressing root causes where possible.
• Cultivate and maintain internal and external counterparty relationships in support of operations.
• Distinguish Phillips 66 as an industry leader in integrity, scheduling excellence, and professionalism.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships across Phillips 66 organizations including VCO, Midstream, Refining, and FP&A.
• Understand and abide by the rules/requirements of regulatory reporting.
• Prepare and submit daily written reports regarding operational status for own desk as well as team members.
• Represent global crude scheduling in daily Commercial Leadership update meetings as required for coverage.
• Represent scheduling team in logistics maintenance, optimization, analytics and growth opportunities.

Benefits

• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager