Senior Advisor, Category Management (Gases)

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The Senior Advisor, Category Management (Gases) is a senior category leader who owns high-complexity, high-value, operationally critical category portfolios and drives multi-site strategies, complex negotiations, proactive supplier and stakeholder communication and implements significant change across Phillips 66 in the Industrial Gases category.

This individual contributor role is accountable for shaping and executing category strategy, architecture, and playbooks for the Industrial Gases category domains, leading cross-functional activities and teams to deliver material commercial value, strengthen supplier partnerships, and manage risk at scale. Operating at an advanced and highly independent level, this role engages with and influences mid- to senior-level stakeholders, drives alignment across sites and functions, and serves as a trusted thought partner on category, supplier, and market strategies within their area. They anticipate and manage significant business implications, document and articulate strategies, mitigate operational upsets, coach and develop others, and lead major category initiatives while escalating true enterprise-exposure or highest-impact matters as appropriate.

What You'll Do

• Define and lead strategies for high‑complexity, high‑value portfolios within the Industrial Gases category including but not limited to, H2 and N2 pipeline and liquid deliveries, Helium, Argon, CO2, N2 pumper truck services, and cylinder gases for the enterprise.
• Develop and refine category strategies, architecture, playbooks, and execution approaches used across relevant sites and stakeholders in the broader organization.
• Design and negotiate complex commercial and contractual models that balance risk, value, and strategic positioning.
• Lead multi‑site supplier performance and relationship management, including innovation and productivity programs.
• Influence mid- to senior- level business and functional leaders on major portfolio and contracting decisions, using strong data narratives.
• Apply deep business and market insight to anticipate shifts and reposition the subcategories proactively.
• Drive major multi-site execution and change initiatives, ensuring consistent implementation across assets and functions.
• Integrate advanced analytics, digital tools, and AI into category work and enabling others to do the same.
• Provide advanced analytical thinking and data storytelling to frame options and support significant portfolio decisions.
• Build and use TCO/Should Cost and market-based scenario models to improve forecasting and guide negotiations to inform and articulate trade-offs and value levers for existing and new supplier agreements.
• Manage strategic and core supplier relationships with consistent KPIs and governance. Ensure systems, documents and data enable and reinforce the category strategies, operating model and governance.
• Embed robust risk and compliance management in strategies, sourcing events, and contracts, serving as a strong line of defense for resilient supply within the category area.

• Promotes compliance with P66's code of conduct, ensuring by personal example and coaching that P66 staff and our partners understand and practice ethical business behavior, and using reasonable care to monitor suppliers and contractors working for P66 to ensure they work in a manner consistent with the code.
• Champions Phillips 66 vision, values, strategy and Our Energy In Action.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree
• 10 or more years of experience procurement, sourcing, supply chain, engineering, or related business roles

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate category strategies, negotiate contracts and manage relationships with stakeholders and suppliers

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or relevant discipline
• 12 or more years of procurement experience in the energy industry with sourcing, negotiations, and contracting
• Working knowledge of category management processes, procedures, practices, and techniques
• Proven ability to negotiate favorable terms and conditions with suppliers to achieve cost savings and performance improvements
• Experience with ERP and procurement systems (Ie, SAP, iCertis, GEP)

Compensation Range


This position has a base salary range of $160,200 - $195,800.

At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role's requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.

Total Rewards


At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being - physical, emotional, social, and financial - is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results - personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services

Learn more about Phillips 66 Total Rewards .

Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ+ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue excellence.


Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.

To be considered


In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 07/24/2026 .

Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Nearest Major Market: Houston