Senior Director, VCO/Plan AI Platform Strategy & Integration

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future The Senior Director serves as an executive partner to VCO, Planning, Refining, Midstream, Commercial, and IT leadership. The role brings an enterprise perspective to platform and investment decisions, challenges assumptions, evaluates build, buy, and partner alternatives, and creates the organizational capabilities required to move from pilots to scaled, supportable products. This leader owns the vision, strategy, roadmap, investment priorities, operating model, and delivery outcomes for the VCO/Plan AI Platform, including the cross-platform integration strategy with Operations AI. The VCO/Plan AI Platform supports planning intelligence, LP accuracy, scenario planning, value-chain decision support, and more transparent collaboration across planning, VCO, trading, and related functions. The role integrates with the Operations AI Platform, anchored by MyOperations, where planning and operational data or workflows need to connect to create business value. Within enterprise AI, data, architecture, cybersecurity, and responsible AI guardrails, this role translates business strategy into a coherent VCO/Plan platform and integration portfolio that is reusable, secure, resilient, and capable of delivering measurable margin and commercial outcomes while connecting effectively to operational capabilities where appropriate. 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 who lead other leaders are expected to scale strong leadership across teams. This includes coaching leaders, aligning work to strategy, and breaking down barriers so teams can work together effectively. You’ll guide others through change, encourage sound decision making, and ensure accountability for results. What You’ll Do Leadership Mandate • Set the multi-year vision and strategic direction for the VCO/Plan AI Platform and its integration points with Operations AI. • Establish clear platform boundaries, shared capabilities, investment principles, and decision rights across business and IT. • Own VCO/Plan portfolio outcomes, including value realization, adoption, reliability, risk posture, and the pace from idea to production; jointly manage integration outcomes with Operations AI leadership. • Build and lead a high-performing organization of product, engineering, data, AI/ML, and platform leaders. • Represent the VCO/Plan AI Platform with executive leadership, governance bodies, business stakeholders, and strategic partners. Platform Strategy and Portfolio Leadership • Define and continuously evolve the strategy and product delivery roadmap for the VCO/Plan AI Platform, including dependencies and integration points with Operations AI. • Translate business strategies into platform capabilities, product roadmaps, investment cases, and measurable outcomes. • Create a balanced portfolio of foundational capabilities, high-value use cases, modernization work, and targeted innovation. • Establish portfolio prioritization and sequencing for VCO/Plan, balancing near-term value with platform health, reuse, resilience, and long-term strategic advantage, while coordinating cross-platform dependencies with Operations AI. • Maintain clear trade-offs, dependencies, capacity assumptions, and decision records for executive review. • Drive a common platform strategy where shared data, model, integration, experience, monitoring, and governance capabilities are built once and reused where appropriate. VCO/Plan AI Platform • Set the strategic direction for AI-enabled planning and value-chain optimization capabilities, in partnership with VCO, Planning, Commercial, Refining, and Regional Optimization leaders. • Guide the evolution of capabilities such as LP accuracy monitoring, model and data drift detection, scenario planning, scenario comparison, LP output synthesis, natural-language inquiry, and decision-ready recommendations. • Ensure the platform strengthens the connection between planning, VCO, trading, and operations while preserving the LP and other economic engines as authoritative decision systems. • Lead platform decisions required to move from use-case pilots to a scalable planning intelligence platform, including modernization, integration, vendor capabilities, and cutover decisions. Executive Partnership and Value Realization • Establish shared outcomes with business product owners and executives. • Define value hypotheses, baselines, KPIs, and adoption measures before investment and delivery decisions are made. • Report portfolio progress, realized value, risks, and decisions required to executive sponsors and governance forums. • Build trust with business leaders by presenting clear options, implications, recommendations, and evidence rather than only technical status. Architecture, Technology, and Innovation • Set architectural direction for the VCO/Plan AI Platform. • Lead build, buy, partner, and modernization decisions using a disciplined framework that considers value, speed, differentiation, total cost of ownership, risk, security, and long-term maintainability. • Evaluate emerging AI, GenAI, agent, optimization, and industrial technology capabilities and determine where they can create differentiated business value. • Maintain a model- and vendor-aware platform strategy that supports rapid innovation without creating avoidable lock-in or duplicative solutions. • Ensure architecture and technology choices align with enterprise data, architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, and platform standards. Product and Delivery Excellence • Establish product management and delivery practices that move ideas from discovery through production and scaled adoption. • Set expectations for hypothesis-driven discovery, iterative delivery, experimentation, product analytics, working demonstrations, and clear D