General Manager
Role Purpose
Represent and protect the organization’s ownership interests in strategic investments and affiliated entities through effective governance, stakeholder engagement, performance oversight, risk management, and value optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent the organization in governance forums, boards, committees, and stakeholder engagements.
- Monitor investment performance against strategic objectives, business plans, and agreed targets.
- Oversee governance, risk management, assurance, and compliance activities.
- Influence strategic, commercial, operational, and investment decisions to protect and enhance shareholder value.
- Support negotiations, business planning, and major investment decisions.
- Coordinate with partners, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders on strategic matters.
- Provide oversight of development projects and operating assets to ensure delivery of business objectives.
- Support sustainability, carbon management, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Lead stakeholder engagement and maintain effective relationships with senior executives, government entities, industry bodies, and strategic partners.
- Provide leadership and coordination across multidisciplinary teams supporting the investments
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Law, or a related discipline.
- Significant experience in corporate strategy, investment management, commercial management, business development, project management, governance, or portfolio management.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders, boards, executive leadership teams, and external partners.
- Strong understanding of business planning, financial analysis, risk management, and governance frameworks.
- Experience managing complex stakeholder environments and influencing without direct authority.
- Knowledge of large-scale capital projects, commercial agreements, and investment decision-making processes.
- Experience in sustainability, energy transition, or carbon management initiatives is advantageous.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities across diverse stakeholder groups.
Skills and Competencies
Technical Skills:
- Corporate governance
- Strategic planning
- Investment and portfolio management
- Financial and commercial analysis
- Risk management
- Business performance management
- Project and portfolio oversight
- Sustainability and carbon management
- Contract and commercial negotiation
Generic Skills:
- Strategic thinking
- Stakeholder management
- Relationship building
- Negotiation and influencing
- Leadership and collaboration
- Communication and presentation skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Cross-functional coordination
- Change management
- Executive engagement
Company profile
Shell
You can be a part of the future of energy. Together at Shell, we are transitioning to become a net-zero emissions business while providing the energy that people around the world need today.
Working with experienced colleagues on this important challenge, 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.
At Shell, you progress as we tackle the energy challenge together.
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Grow your skills
You have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology, trends and practices. Be inspired to build your abilities, learn from experiences and grow the skills you need to get – and stay – ahead.
Collaborate with experienced colleagues
Work with professionals and leaders, each bringing their unique expertise to the table. We invite people to think differently and learn from the diversity of backgrounds, cultures, ideas and knowledge at Shell.
Achieve your balance in a values-led culture
We live our core values of honesty, integrity and respect, so you can work in an environment that encourages you to be the best version of yourself and respects the individual journeys each of us will take.
Develop the energy solutions of tomorrow and today
Play a role in developing solutions that support the energy transition and address the energy needs of today. Working across our diverse businesses and capabilities, you have the opportunity to power progress for the world around us.