Senior Supply Coordinator
Marathon PetroleumAn 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 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, st…