Business Advisor

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Strategy BD & Commercial

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

June 1, 2026

Business Unit:

Upstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

As Business Advisor to the President, you will act as a strategic partner at the heart of Shell Brazil’s leadership, shaping priorities, enabling decision-making, and ensuring seamless execution of business strategy. You will operate across organizational boundaries—supporting both day-to-day operations and long-term agenda—while driving alignment, performance, and governance at the highest level.

You will report directly to the President and work closely with the Brazil Leadership Team (LT), acting as a trusted advisor and integrator across business lines. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and stakeholder management, with high exposure to senior internal and external stakeholders.

Accountabilities:

Strategic & Leadership Support
 

• Support the President in shaping and delivering business priorities, balancing short-term performance and long-term strategy 

• Drive the development, execution, and tracking of the country strategy (acting as PMO where required)

Business Performance & Execution

• Ensure delivery against strategic priorities by tracking key initiatives, outcomes, and performance metrics

• Manage a complex portfolio of cross-functional topics and ensure alignment across business lines

• Lead/coordinate special project

Stakeholder & External Engagement

• Support engagement with senior external stakeholders

• Stay attuned to external developments, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and innovation levers

Governance, Communication & Integration
 

• Structure and manage leadership meetings, improving effectiveness, alignment, and team dynamics

• Maintain strong internal networks to sense emerging issues and ensure timely escalation and resolution

• Develop high-quality executive communications and materials for internal and external audiences

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• University degree in any discipline (Business, Engineering, Economics, or related fields are advantageous)

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally in strategy, business advisory, commercial, or leadership support roles within complex organizations

• Strong understanding of business drivers, value creation, and financial/commercial decision-making

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.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• 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.

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 85,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shell’s strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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