, United Kingdom

Job Family Group:

Corporate Relations

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 15, 2025

Business unit:

Finance

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The economist partners with the business to make decisions that maximize value and manage risks. They integrate with colleagues in other functions to gain deep insights into how Shell generates revenue and delivers value to various stakeholders. This role has an integrated country view of Shell's operations and businesses, working to protect and create business and reputation value.

What you’ll be doing

As the Senior Economist, who reports directly to the Chief Economist, your role involves offering thought leadership and insights in the fields of economics and policy to guide Shell's strategy, decision-making, and policy advocacy.

Responsibilities include:

Lead on developing/updating CO2 PSV values, ensuring the methodology is economically robust and accounts for policy changes in the horizon. Monitor key policy developments and sector abatement costs across priority countries. Support the project economics team in disseminating the results
Lead policy input for the Shell-DRC collaboration, including developing the scope and research questions, bringing together internal and external expertise, ensuring outputs meet delivery needs and quality standards, and leading discussions with DRC counterparts
Support Chief economist in providing economics and policy advice on strategic policy issues and developments, e.g., minimum carbon tax, power market reform, industrial policy, etc. Work with P&A and Tax teams to develop policy positions, e.g., fossil fuel subsidies, evolving fiscal frameworks, EU ETS/CBAM, CCS policies, etc. Develop knowledge products on an ad hoc basis to support the policy and economic thinking in the group
Support Chief economist to update the ‘Pace of Energy transition’ assessment to inform CMD25 and wider strategy development, including project managing the process by setting timelines, coordinating inputs from key stakeholders, shaping the overall assessment and narrative and disseminating the findings, and being responsible for maintain datasets and analytics to support strategy development and future updates.
Work with strategy team to inform Shell countries strategies, e.g., business insights for country strategies for India and China, Energy Transition Strategy

What you bring

Experienced economist with a proven track record in project valuation, identifying value drivers, and collaborating with teams to enhance project values who is passionate about continuous learning and embracing challenges
Quality of advice will influence decision making processes
Manages the relationship with a large variety of (groups of) stakeholders (internally and externally) on strategic level and manages opposite interests
Work activities have a significant impact on assigned business area
Translates business challenges (immediate and longer term) and ensures application of the right instruments to create solutions. Drives refining existing approaches and defining new approaches
Leader of teams / leader of community (both direct and indirect). Supervises activities which are predominantly non-standard in nature

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 The United Kingdom

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea’s biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK’s total oil and gas needs. But perhaps the most recognisable face of Shell in the UK is our network of over 1,000 Shell-branded service stations.

In the years ahead, as the UK looks to strengthen energy security and deliver its 2050 net-zero goal, Shell UK aims to play a crucial role. We aim to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping our customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.

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