Sr. Director, Regional HR Business Partner, Wood River Refinery

About the role

The Senior Director, Regional HR Business Partner at Phillips 66 will lead the HR business partner function for a significant part of the Refining organization, translating the company's mission, vision, and strategy into a clear and actionable people plan while role-modeling transparency, ethics, and trust in every decision.

Responsibilities

• Lead the HR business partner strategy for your area of responsibility, translating the company’s mission, vision, and strategy into a clear and actionable people plan while role-modeling transparency, ethics, and trust in every decision.
• Lead a team of regional HR professionals and cross-functional team members across the US and UK.
• Own the HR agenda and outcomes for your portfolio, setting clear expectations, monitoring progress against goals, and holding yourself and leaders accountable for delivering sustainable business and people results.
• Design, enhance, and govern HR frameworks and tools (including workforce planning, talent acquisition, performance management, development, succession, rewards, and employee experience) that enable the attraction, development, and retention of talent at a competitive and responsible cost.
• Build and develop a cohesive HR business partner and extended HR team, aligning roles and priorities, coaching leaders, and creating a culture of inclusion, shared purpose, and recognition that strengthens leadership capability across the organization.
• Use HR data, analytics, and insights at the enterprise or business-unit level to diagnose root causes, inform high-quality decisions, and advise senior leaders on actions that improve engagement, capability, and overall business performance.
• Partner across HR centers of expertise and business functions to remove organizational barriers, ensure consistent policy and practice, and foster open, candid communication that enables faster, better cross-functional solutions.
• Lead HR support for complex change initiatives, helping the organization navigate ambiguity by providing clear direction, anticipating risks, and guiding leaders and teams through transitions in a calm, focused, and productive way.
• Set and manage HR budgets and resource plans for your area, aligning investments with strategic priorities and using financial and workforce insights to balance value, cost, and risk.
• Provide trusted, expert counsel to senior and executive leaders on people, organization, and culture topics, ensuring policies, practices, and decisions are aligned with company values, external requirements, and long-term strategy.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country.
• Bachelor’s degree
• 15 or more years of relevant HR experience, including strategic HR business partnership with senior leaders, talent management, workforce planning, leadership development and/or change management.
• 10 or more years of people leadership, mentorship, or related experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, communicate, and build relationships at all levels, and to link business objectives with HR activities

Preferred

• Advanced degree such as an MBA or a graduate degree in a relevant field.
• Significant senior HR business partner or HR leadership experience in large, complex, multi-site organizations, ideally within energy, manufacturing, or similarly capital-intensive industries.
• Proven track record building and leading cohesive HR teams that support enterprise-wide strategy, transformation, and culture initiatives.
• Deep experience with HR data, analytics, and HR technology to drive insight-led workforce and organization decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity, managing significant change, and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and high-quality decision-making aligned with a contemporary leadership framework such as Lead Forward.
• Experience setting, managing, and optimizing sizeable HR budgets and investments to balance strategic impact and cost effectiveness.

Benefits

Compensation Range: $257,400 – $314,600
Total Rewards: Includes 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.