Scheduling Manager

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** An exciting career awaits you
** 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 The Scheduling Manager will oversee a team of commercial operators / schedulers, managing NGL movements across the enterprise.

The focus of this role is to lead the team in optimizing product movement and strategically maximizing profitability of NGLs across Marathon’s entire refining and fractionation portfolio, critically evaluating commercial terms and optionality, refining/fractionation supply and demand, and resource availability/costs.

This leader will work to identify processes which allow the team to maximize commercial opportunities, establish optimal movement plans and capture the most potential on our resources across the enterprise for the NGL commercial business.

This leader will collaborate with various internal and external counterparts, fostering relationships with key stakeholders across the organization, with the goal of providing innovative solutions to balance commercial and operational needs, providing support for changes in production/consumption plans, as well as unexpected logistical challenges and constraints.#

Key Responsibilities
* Oversees day-to-day actions of direct reports by providing guidance, mentoring, and holding direct reports accountable.
* Recommends and supports the training and career development programs and continuously monitors their performance.
* Supervises the scheduling of domestic and foreign-sourced products and NGLs feed stocks for delivery to company processing, fractionators, refineries, storage facilities, or other disposition points via ocean vessels, lightering vessels, barges, railcars, trucks, and/or pipelines to ensure effective terminal and pipeline nominations, fractionator/refinery balances, and product optimization. Manages upset situations, coordinates for area, summarizes needs, and makes quick decisions, including during off-peak hours (Manager and team are OnCall 24/7).
* Supports the overall performance of planning activities utilizing scheduling platforms. Analyzes and develop the logistical plan to identify commercial opportunities on an on-going basis.
* Controls master data (scheduling platform) for a specific area making sure that correctness, new logistic setups, applicability, and definitions are in place and follow the processes of the company and industry best practices.
* Maintains extensive operational knowledge of each facility receipt and distribution system within respective areas of responsibility; remains current on changing operations and procedures.
* Recommends alternative transportation plans to capitalize on synergies within MPC’s supply and distribution network. Owner of inventory management and reporting for their specified areas.
* Identifies opportunities for system improvement and collaborates with Commercial counterparts and stakeholders, including supply trading team as well as external commercial counterparts and Business Development for enhancements.
* Participates in the out-month planning process to ensure constraints are properly identified and longer-term projects as the operation logistics expert.#

Education and Experience
* Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related discipline required
* Eight (8) years of commercial scheduling, operations, or other related experience required.

Preferred Experience s:
* Five to ten (5-10) years of experience on NGLs commodity properties and logistics.
* Ability to perform complex economic analysis and provide insight and recommendations
* Strong work ethic, maintaining a respectable environment among industry peers in areas of honesty, integrity, and business knowledge.
* Ability to develop strong relationships across the organization with ability to influence without formal authority
* Self-starter and have the strong ability to successfully initiate and pursue business opportunities while also fostering strong internal corporate relationships# Skills Authentic Communicator Strong NGLs and Feedstock Business Acumen…