Senior Technical Project Leader – Enterprise Initiatives

Phillips 66 Company; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 181,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

VCIP bonus

401k match

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

Well-being programs

Job summary

Phillips 66 in Houston seeks a Sr Advisor III, Technical Project Management to lead complex technology initiatives that drive commercial growth. You will translate business needs into actionable requirements and govern delivery across product, architecture, security, data, procurement, finance, and business teams.

You’ll maintain integrated project plans, manage risks, steering committees, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field
• 5 or more years of experience leading complex technology projects or programs in a large, matrixed organization
• 10 or more years of experience delivering projects involving multiple technology teams, business functions, vendors, and senior stakeholders
• Advanced proficiency in software delivery, systems integration, data, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and technology operations
• Travel up to 5% of the time

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional technology projects from initial concept through implementation, stabilization, and transition to ongoing support.
• Maintain central project plan and communicate updates to Commercial Market Analytics, IT Leadership, and other stakeholders regularly.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, solution options, delivery plans, and decisions for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, budgets, resource plans, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision logs.
• Coordinate work across application, data, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendor, and business teams.
• Establish effective project governance, including status reporting, steering committee materials, stage gates, change control, and escalation paths.
• Manage delivery through the full project lifecycle, including discovery, design, build, testing, deployment, change adoption, and benefits realization.
• Identify delivery risks early and drive timely mitigation, resolution, and executive escalation when needed.
• Identify risks and opportunities to reallocate resources to improve delivery.
• Facilitate working sessions and decision forums that bring clarity to complex or competing priorities.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Manage vendor and implementation-partner relationships, including deliverables, performance, dependencies, and commercial commitments.
• Promote practical use of agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery methods based on project needs.
• Support portfolio prioritization by communicating investment requirements, delivery capacity, tradeoffs, and expected business value.
• Lead retrospectives and apply lessons learned to improve project delivery practices across the organization.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Delivery planning

Vendor management

Technical fluency

Business judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field

Job description

Phillips 66 in Houston seeks a Sr Advisor III, Technical Project Management to lead complex technology initiatives that drive commercial growth. You will translate business needs into actionable requirements and govern delivery across product, architecture, security, data, procurement, finance, and business teams.

You’ll maintain integrated project plans, manage risks, steering committees, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.