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Shell Sr. Strategy Consultancy Advisor in Bengaluru, India
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