Policy & Benefits Advisor

What’s the role

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for operational excellence this is your opportunity to grow your career. Working globally and locally you will support Shell to ensure our Policies and Benefits are fit for purpose and aligned with our global intent.

As a member of the Singapore Policy and Benefits team, you will play a key role in assuring and safeguarding our License to Operate within Singapore. Your primary responsibilities will be on Compensation and Pensions. You will lead compensation activities, requiring a holistic, end to end approach to ensure consistency, sustainability, strong user experience and cost efficiency in the solution.

In partnership with the Global Rewards team, to help develop global pay policies and archetypes, to be applied locally, to ensure our pay policies are grounded in and aligned with our global identity and company values. You will also partner with business representatives and the HR community to enable the delivery of the local Pension plans, including legacy pension scheme, in cooperation with Group Pension.

As the Policy & Benefits Advisor, you will also play a key role in providing a great user experience for our employees and leaders through ensuring our pay policies are clear, easy to access and apply and that they are easy and cost efficient to administer with the support of our HR Operations teams.

This role will report to Singapore Policy & Benefits Manager.

What you’ll be doing

As the Policy & Benefits Advisor, you will be tasked with the following:

• Provides deep subject matter expertise relating to compensation and local pensions, and staying current on legislative requirements, best practices and application across all businesses.
• Act as a proactive, strategic partner to the broader HR Community and business to solve business challenges within compensation remit. This is done in consultation with HR Operations, Global Rewards team and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the roll out of global pay policies, archetypes and continuous improvement initiatives including providing local insights and requirements, developing change and engage plans and supporting leader/HR engagements.
• Accountable for supporting the annual pay review in Singapore and undertake pay benchmarking exercises.
• Support the development and recommendations of annual pay program.
• Review, and if needed, recommend system changes to ensure accuracy of payments.
• Support ongoing country pay education activities.
• Provide subject matter expertise to ER/IR on local compensation topic for renewal or negotiations of collective agreement, to enable competitive and affordable positioning.
• Responsible for the coordination and communication of the compensation/local pensions process including providing recommendations regarding changes and ensuring timely implementation.
• Maintain awareness of trends, competitive practice and legal landscape as they relate to compensation and local pension.
• Engage with a variety of stakeholders, within and outside Shell.   
• Leads/supports assigned projects/activities within the team.

Depending on (team) developments, the scope of the role may be subject to change and the individual will need to flex to meet evolving needs of the role and business stakeholders.

What you bring

The ideal candidate for this position would have:

• Deep understanding of relevant legislation and pay policies developments, including ability to clearly articulate the intent, rational and ‘why’.
• Keen interest in organisational change journeys.
• Strong project management skills, with an eye for continuous improvement.
• Ability to build networks and have impact within external networks that shape pay policies at country level.
• Strong advocacy and facilitation skills and confident in engaging larger group of employees and senior leadership on specific pay policy/local pension topics.
• Ability to articulate and understand the 'why' behind our pay policies in an engaging and easy manner for our employees and line leaders to understand and apply.
• Excellent communication skills (both written, including preparation of Country Coordination Team (CCT) meetings and verbal including presenting to CCT).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to deal with complex and / or sensitive information.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability and willingness to support and coach others.
• Ability to prioritise and manage your time to think broadly on global/external matters as well as ensure a focus on operational delivery. 
• Proven experience of working with and building relationships with HR Operations including payroll and where required third party providers and legal.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
• international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Shell in Singapore

Shell is an international energy company that uses advanced technologies and takes an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. Here in Singapore, Shell has a long history and is one of the country’s largest foreign investors. It has businesses spanning trading and marketing of liquefied natural gas; refining, trading, marketing and shipping of oil products, lubricants and chemicals; low carbon solutions; and operating a network of service stations through retailers, as well as electric vehicles charging.