Refinery and Energy Asset Strategist

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The Refinery and Energy Asset Strategist (Sr. Manager) is a high impact front office role that is integral to the success of the commercial market research function and trading delivery at Phillips 66. The Refinery and Energy Assets Strategist will be responsible for forecasting operational rates, tracking outages and capacity changes for refineries, NGL assets, petrochemical crackers and NGL docks across the Americas and align the forecasts and tracking across the wider global refinery and energy assets team.

The successful candidate will lead a small team, including one direct report focused on tracking planned and unplanned turnarounds (TARs), and will work with global infrastructure analysts to develop a consistent global approach and tool set. The Strategist will work collaboratively with other market strategists, regional analysts, and trading teams to develop and maintain models and balances that will be utilized in commodity level supply demand balances to develop trading insights.

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.

• Communicate refinery, NGL and Renewable asset, petrochemical cracker operations, forecasts and market insights as part of regular review meetings and in larger forums, including cross commodity meetings and global trading meetings
• Lead the development of improved internal asset database and tools and applications to convert asset tracking data into throughput forecasts and communicate the insights to the wider trading organization
• Lead and develop a direct report responsible for tracking planned and unplanned turnarounds (TARs) across refineries and other energy assets, ensuring outage data is accurate, current and integrated into forecasts
• Develop and maintain a real time forecast of refinery and asset throughput used to inform the demand side of the crude oil, naphtha, Renewables and NGL balances and the supply side of product, Renewables, NGL and petrochemical balances
• Aggregate and reconcile internal and external data sources, including changes in unit level capacity, refinery yield, utilization, outage and logistics data, to build and refine proprietary asset forecast models
• Work with regional and global teams to integrate refinery, NGL asset, cracker and dock forecasts into related trading bench supply and demand balances, including crude, gasoline, distillates, Renewables and NGLs
• Draw on fundamental and technical data as appropriate to develop forward view predictive models for refining margins, asset utilization and infrastructure constraints
• Stay abreast of external market analyst views on refining, petrochemicals and infrastructure, and incorporate these into internal fundamental analysis to create a competitive edge versus external views
• Synthesize cross regional refining and asset themes into actionable insights, including the impact of infrastructure changes, dock capacity and logistics constraints on trade ideas
• Drive continuous improvement of existing forecast and outage tracking models and processes
• Lead ad-hoc projects and analysis around market fundamentals, including infrastructure and turnaround related changes, to support trade ideas
• Provide day-to-day coaching, performance…