Sr. Strategy Consultancy Advisor

What’s the role

As a Senior Strategy Consultancy Advisor at Shell, you'll work on projects and analyses that help senior leaders make strategic business decisions. You'll focus on markets, projects, and countries, providing accurate and timely insights to support Shell's overall strategy and commercial decisions.

These projects typically encompass:

• Long/short-term upstream and gas strategy analysis and development
• Strategy review for specific geographies
• Financial modelling and business case creation support
• Business opportunity assessments
• Competitive landscaping (regulatory, demand/supply, etc.) and opportunity identification/framing
• Qualitative and quantitative market and project analysis

You'll work with various data sets related to investments, products, costs, and performance. These studies are typically undertaken for Business leadership teams and typically involve up to two team members.

What you’ll be doing

• Hands-on delivery of a cross section of complex projects.
• Maintaining familiarity with developments in own domain and actively contributing by providing inputs/information
• Having a good understanding and perspectives of the business environment and value chains in one or more areas across upstream/ gas and LNG/exploration
• Leading end-to-end delivery of assigned work streams in a large/complex project or delivering medium size/complexity studies or projects independently.
• End-to-end delivery of assigned components of project – defining and clarifying scope, planning own work and work of associated junior team-members, conducting own analysis, managing client interface, and reporting out the analysis details and the key so-what’s/recommendations in a structured way
• Proactively co-ordinating with own and other teams to obtain the required inputs, and disseminating data/knowledge from own area of work to these teams
• Taking guidance from senior team members and stakeholders on subject matter or functional skills
• Managing the relationship with clients at working level by building good credibility
• Building own network in Shell to identify synergies, obtain/validate required data and viewpoints, and socializing findings to all relevant audience
• Guiding Strategy Advisors assigned to work on projects

What you bring

• University degree (Technical/Engineering/Economics); having an MBA would be a plus
• Must have at least 8+ years of professional experience in oil and gas or related industries through operational, commercial, consulting, research, finance, or project delivery roles.
• Substantial experience in roles that require consulting, strategic planning, data/financial analysis, or market research skills.
• Direct experience in upstream, LNG or exploration will be preferred
• Ability to analyse large and complex data and build a ‘So What’ story with synthesis and insights
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex issues and concepts in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to manage scoping, schedule and stakeholder relationships/consultation for smaller consulting projects
• Ability to handle ambiguity and provide a structured approach to dealing with unstructured situations
• Ability to create strong working relationships with diverse, multicultural stakeholders in a virtual set-up, working across multiple geographies and time-zones
• Mastery of key trends, issues, regulation and geopolitics in the upstream oil and gas industry
• Experience working with financial statements and project economics
• Experience guiding junior resources in accomplishing project objectives
• Good economic modelling skills
• Good team player, successfully handling multiple projects and client relationships simultaneously
• Stakeholder management involving client engagement on scoping, day-to-day work, reviewing quality and resolving issues on occasion
• Ability to plan own work, delivering hands-on and coordinating with a wide set of teams
• Familiarity with information and statistical source databases (e.g. Wood Mackenzie, Rystad)
• Familiarity with visualization tools such as Spotfire, Tableau would be an advantage