Sr. Strategy Consultancy Advisor

, India

Job Family Group:

Commercial and Retail

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

November 4, 2025

Business unit:

Upstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

As a Senior Strategy Consultancy Advisor at Shell, you'll work on projects that help senior leaders make strategic business decisions. You'll focus on Shell’s project portfolio, markets, 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

• Financial modelling and business case creation support for the Shell portfolio

• Quantitative and qualitative business opportunity assessments

• Quantitative and qualitative market and project analysis

• Strategy review for specific geographies

• Competitive landscaping and opportunity identification/framing

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 and analysis across the upstream oil and gas value chain

• 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 a project – defining and clarifying scope, planning your own work and assisting work of associated team-members, conducting your analysis, managing client interfaces, and reporting out the analysis details and the key so-what/recommendations in a structured way

• Maintaining a good understanding and perspectives on the business environment, value chain and economics of one or more areas across upstream/gas and LNG/exploration

• Maintaining familiarity with developments in your domain and actively contributing by providing inputs/information

• Proactively co-ordinating within and outside the team to obtain required inputs, and disseminating data/knowledge from your 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 your network in Shell to identify synergies, obtain/validate required data and viewpoints, and socializing findings to all relevant audience

What you bring

• University degree (Engineering/Economics/Finance/Data Science); 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, finance, or project delivery roles.

• Direct experience in upstream, LNG or exploration will be preferred

• Substantial experience in roles that require data/financial analysis, consulting, strategic planning, or market research skills.

• Expertise in analysing large and complex data and building a ‘So What’ story with synthesis and insights

• Significant experience working with project economics and financial statements

• Good economic modelling skills

• 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

• Mastery of key trends, issues, regulation and geopolitics in the upstream oil and gas industry

• 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

• Ability to plan one’s own work, delivering hands-on whilst coordinating with a wide set of teams

• Good team player, successfully handling multiple projects and client relationships simultaneously

• Experience guiding project team-members in accomplishing project objectives

• Stakeholder management involving client engagement on scoping, day-to-day work, reviewing quality and resolving issues on occasion

• Familiarity with information and statistical source databases (e.g. Wood Mackenzie, Rystad)

• Familiarity with visualization tools such as Spotfire, Tableau would be an advantage

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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

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 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

Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.

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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