There are some significant challenges within the Refining Executive Leadership Team given the current dynamics. One Senior Refining VP is focused on non-essential matters with little understanding of what it takes to properly invest and safely operate. His gobbledygook focus on employee development is more about appearances than tangible results. The extremely qualified second Senior Refining VP is consistently stepping up to lead Refining’s capital development strategy along with expense budget management. Lastly the inexperienced Executive VP Refining looks like he is in over his head and is always off on vendor boondoggles. It could be a good time for MPC’s new CEO to make a strategic evaluation of Refining’s current leadership. Thoughts from others?
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This aged really well.
MPC is in a race to the bottom. They don't care what you, how much you do, or how you do it. They only care how much you cost them. Talent is leaving because raises are not coming, the employees left are yes men or people coasting to retirement.
Not only is top talent leaving, those who stay are so demoralized and belittled that they don’t care anymore.
They don't even care what value you bring (money), in that they won't pay you more. They'll let their top talent leave while they claim promotions are happening slower these days.
You must be young. Marathon may say they value the HOW but all that really matters with basically any publicly traded company is What value you bring (money) no one cares how you do it as long as you bring value.
With a possible War coming Refineries are very important and any hitches need to be worked out now. Easier to retrain what you have today than bring in rookies. Directly express the problem and a suggested solution to the top.
OP is spot on! My colleagues and I experience it every day. Sadly the three amigos are creating uncertainty in our future without alignment in strategy and vision. Things are vastly different today than they were just a couple of years ago.
It sounds like there’s agreement that these are some flawed leaders. at this level of leadership we shouldn’t be debating about choosing the lesser of the two. Personally I’ve only heard bad things about both. All can agree executive VP is a lost cause?
Needs to go external. For all of those positions. She won’t be promoting within.
People skills are more important than technical. I completely see this opposite of you. Marathon has been saying they value the HOW more than the WHAT.