Planning & Optimization Manager
About The Position
At MPC, we're committed to being a great place to work - one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Position Summary Leads crude oil supply and demand optimization for the North Region refining system, coordinating across Trading, Refining, and Scheduling to identify and execute commercial opportunities. Serves as the strategic liaison to ensure alignment across feedstock acquisition, pricing, logistics, and refinery operations, while tracking economic uplift and performance metrics. Develops subject matter expertise in crude pricing and optimization, supporting strategy execution and continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
- Eight (8) or more years of Refining Operations, Planning, and/or Commercial experience required.
- Authentic Communicator
- Business Acumen
- Business Analysis
- Continuous Improvement Mindset
- Energizing the Organization
- Ongoing Learning & Self-Development
- Relationship Management
- Results Driven
- Selecting and Developing People
- Strategic Outlook
Responsibilities
- Oversees crude oil supply/demand for North Region refining system and identifies optimization opportunities.
- Coordinates with Trading, Refining, and Scheduling to identify and evaluate economics of available supply/demand balances in North Region refineries to realize commercial opportunities.
- Communicates system opportunities for optimum refinery operation in 30-120-day period to Trading and Refineries. Collaborates with Trading to provide timely market opportunities and pricing to meet system requirements.
- Maintains and tracks economic uplift and key performance indicators for crude optimization and strategic decisions.
- Makes daily contact between Refinery, Transportation, and Marketing to communicate feedstock needs, crude availability, and refinery operating status. Evaluates and coordinates opportunities within the refining system to capture synergies.
- Provides support to the strategy implementation and business development activities.
- Acts as liaison between Trading, MPLX, Scheduling, and Refining to ensure alignment on direction to meet optimized plan and capture commercial opportunities.
- Coordinates with the Quality and Measurements group to ensure appropriate and adequate compilation of measurement data to determine the success of the feedstock acquisition process and to initiate continuous improvement processes/practices.
- Ensures improved customer relations by reviewing process efficiency and effectiveness such as schedule compliance, pricing, and quality assurance. Develops into subject matter expert on crude pricing and optimization processes.
Benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Industry
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
