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Position Summary

Value Chain Optimization is seeking a Supply Coordinator to support the development and execution of optimized regional supply plans that align market opportunities with refinery capabilities, logistics constraints, and economic objectives. This role works across the Value Chain Optimization (VCO) organization along with working closely with Trading, Scheduling, and Marketing to maintain supply and demand balances, evaluate constraints and opportunities, communicate executable plans, and support inventory management. The Coordinator applies a working understanding of refinery operations, commodity logistics, and regional market dynamics to identify inefficiencies and opportunities, drive continuous improvement, and support strategy execution. This role will focus on short term supply distribution, coordination and optimization.

This role will report directly to the Supply Coordination Manager – North.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops optimized and executable regional supply plans using existing economic and communication tools for work team. Identifies perceived constraints and limitations and seeks further understanding, challenging as appropriate. Coordinates with stakeholders to identify and evaluate economics to realize commercial opportunities. Gathers and develops supply/demand balances, including maintaining refinery and system available feedstocks, blendstocks and/or products for scheduling and modeling inputs. Some positions may include use of advanced software such as distribution and/or blending models.
• Collaborates and serves as liaison between multiple internal stakeholders including but not limited to VCO, Trading, Scheduling, and Marketing to understand business needs, identify constraints and opportunities, discuss local and regional economic drivers, and propose solutions. Collaborates closely with Commercial Traders to coordinate, evaluate and present market opportunities on consistent and timely basis. Align market opportunities with refining system requirements/abilities in 120-day plan. Leads collaboration meetings within the value chain to discuss both local and regional economic drivers.
• Effectively communicates opportunities, plans, and strategies to internal stakeholders using multiple platforms or mediums. Stakeholders able to clearly understand messaging. Influences stakeholders by leveraging data and insights for strategic planning decisions.
• Prepares and communicates forecasted inventory and purchase or sales volumes designed to optimize refining run plans and corporate profitability with visibility into the multi-month plan. Coordinates path forward and communicates as conditions change, including available options and optimization opportunities for both planned and unplanned events.
• Demonstrates a fundamental understanding of refinery operations, economics, commodity logistics, and market dynamics for multiple refineries. Has a working knowledge of assets and competitors in their supported geographical region, as well as ingress into and egress out of the region.
• Identifies inefficiencies and value opportunities. Sets goals associated with tool improvement, logistics data, and strategic intelligence.
• Develops tools and metrics to track commercial performance within the areas of responsibility.
• Identify ideas for strategy and business development activities.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required. Engineering or related field preferred.
• Four (4) years of refining, logistics, or commercial experience required. Exposure to scheduling, economics & planning and/or refinery operations preferred.

Skills

• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• Business Domain Knowledge: Understanding of business processes, industry trends, and market dynamics to provide relevant and actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
• Commodity Market Analysis: Applies knowledge of commodity markets, price dynamics, and supply-demand fundamentals to inform planning, optimization, and commercial decision-making.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Data Analysis: Data Analysis is the process of identifying, evaluating, interpreting and organizing data so that it can be used for business decisions. It includes sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships.
• Decision Support Analytics: Leverages analytics, reporting, and decision frameworks to generate insights, evaluate alternatives, and support informed, data-driven decision-making.
• Forecast Analysis: Develop forward-looking forecasts and scenarios to assess uncertainty, evaluate trade-offs, and support planning under different assumptions.
• Influencing Others: The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.
• Integrated Planning & Optimization: Designs and manages integrated planning processes that align supply, demand, and operational constraints to optimize value across the enterprise value chain.
• Market Fundamentals: Ability to understand, analyze, and apply core drivers of supply, demand, pricing, and market structure to inform commercial decisions.
• Optimization Modeling: Applies optimization models and quantitative techniques to evaluate scenarios, improve system performance, and support complex operational and commercial decisions.
• Results Driven: Developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build alignment across internal and external stakeholders to support shared objectives.
• Supply Demand Analysis: The use of industry data and market intelligence to build out macro and micro-Supply & Demand models which give insights used to develop a forward-looking market view that can be used to make opportunistic business decisions.
• Supply Planning: Plan sourcing, inventory, and distribution activities to meet demand efficiently.

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