What’s the role
The CEO Office operates in a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly complex global environment. It is a close-knit team dedicated to ensuring the smooth running of the CEO’s day-to-day activities. The team works collaboratively, with a strong emphasis on trust and teamwork.
The Deputy Assistant to the CEO will report to the Executive Assistant (EA) to the CEO and will provide effective, efficient, accurate, proactive and highly confidential administrative and secretarial support – primarily to the EA, as well as to the CEO’s Business Advisor and, at times, directly to the CEO.
The main focus of this role is managing logistics such as events, travel, catering, hospitality and IT.
What to Expect
- The CEO Office is very dynamic, in an atypical and highly complex landscape. The role requires handling high-value and complex issues in a global context.
- The CEO Office frequently encounters urgent issues that require prompt support with calendar management, travel arrangements, and access to other leaders. Occasionally, flexibility outside standard office hours may be required to meet these demands.
- While the pace can be demanding and last-minute changes are common, the Deputy Assistant to the CEO is part of a close-knit team that values accuracy, service excellence, and proactive problem-solving. Resilience and adaptability are key to thriving in this role.
- Maintaining the highest degree of confidentiality in all matters is essential. A successful outcome of the pre-employment screening is part of the selection process.
What you’ll be doing
- Provide effective, efficient, and pro-active administrative and secretarial support, dealing with matters of a highly confidential nature.
- Work closely with the EA on various administrative and logistical arrangements, including challenging calendar management, to optimise the CEO’s time.
- Take full responsibility for continuation of diverse activities during the absence of the EA (for example on planned leave).
- Arrange detailed and accurate logistics for forthcoming travels, including proactive and timely arrangements in a cost and business efficient manner. Prepare travel itineraries, independently arranging flights, trains, passport renewals, visas, accommodation, and car transport.
- Ensure timely submission of expense claims and Gifts & Hospitality (G&H) entries.
- Support information management activities i.e., DocuSign, SharePoint sites, Diligent, and record management.
- Maintain a productive network of admin colleagues worldwide to support the needs of the CEO.
What you bring
- Proven experience in secretarial and administrative support to executive level leadership.
- Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team. This is of the highest importance.
- Excellent in written English and verbal communication skills with both internal & external parties across all levels.
- Has the maturity and presence to engage with a senior stakeholder group, both internally and externally.
- Able to interact at all levels. Will demonstrate an enthusiastic, proactive can-do and customer focused mindset.
- Professional and organized with the willingness to help, and ability to independently use a range of problem-solving skills while learning quickly. Enjoys taking the initiative and working autonomously.
- Able to manage sensitive matters with integrity and discretion, as there are continuous dealings with confidential and sensitive information in and outside of the company.
- Effective time management and personal effectiveness skills to work within tight (and often changing) deadlines, balancing competing priorities with proactiveness and independence. Displays a willingness to speak up to help manage workloads and ensure proactive prioritization.
- Operates within the context of high business criticality, with correspondingly important deadlines.
- Possesses influencing and persuasive skills in engaging with stakeholders, both internally and externally. Requires diplomacy.
- Has the ability and willingness to help support and partner with individuals across multiple teams and cultures.
- Eye for detail when completing tasks.
- Develops and maintains a sound understanding of business activities and objectives.
- Experience in corporate/global, cross-cultural environments and time zones required.
- Proficiency in systematically maintaining accurate records pertaining to activities such as meetings, travel, correspondence, and events.
- Advanced computer literacy in various applications, activities and programs (ex: Diligent, SharePoint, Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Outlook Calendar, Microsoft Teams, Concur, Corporate Travel, etc.).
- Upholds and demonstrates Shell core values: Honesty, Integrity and Respect, an eye for safety, and a commitment to authentic, honest, open, and transparent communication.
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What’s the role
The Senior Pricing & Analytics Manager sits in the Legal Sourcing & Analytics team, within Legal Services Global Operations (LSGO).
The role plays a pivotal role in driving efficient and effective management of external legal spend with an emphasis on thought leadership, transformation and continual improvement. The ultimate goal is to optimise value, reduce costs, and support Shell Legal’s strategic objectives.
The focus broadly sits across 3x pillars:
- Operationalisation of existing processes – Preparation, analysis and negotiation of RFPs ensuring decisions are made within a rigorous, consistent, and cost conscious framework
- Continual improvement – Monitoring, review and enhancement of existing performance metrics / outputs to inform enhanced future processes
- Stakeholder Management – Collaboration with lawyers, internal stakeholders (including Finance/ IT / Admin/ RtP), and external vendors and 3rd party law firms
Legal is a positive place to work, where our culture of innovation and collaboration enables us to deliver ever more efficient and cost-effective results in support of the business. We work as one team and are committed to excellence.
What you’ll be doing
- Enhance the strategic framework that underpins how we engage and negotiate across our portfolio of 3rd party law firms.
- Lead cross-functional projects across the wider Legal community to enhance commercial opportunities via development and implementation of cost containment initiatives
- Lead on fee arrangements and alternative pricing structures with external law firms for our most complex and material matters. At all times maximising value by ensuring alignment with firm strategic objectives.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve E2E processes for sourcing legal services, including RFP development, proposal assessment, and vendor selection.
- Analyse data derived from fee arrangements and legal spend to identify trends and opportunities for commercial improvement.
- Collaborate with legal, finance, and analytics teams to develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to external legal spend and vendor performance.
- Provide actionable insights and recommendations to legal leadership to inform sourcing strategy and improve outcomes.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices, and innovation across pricing / sourcing as well as wider legal operations trends; develop an ‘outside-in’ knowledge sharing approach across the team
- Play an active role in the development and implementation of systems and metrics to monitor, report, and improve legal sourcing and pricing effectiveness.
- Build strong relationships with law firms and internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on sourcing and pricing matters.
- Work with the Manager of the Sourcing team to drive continuous improvement of legal operations, proactively identifying opportunities to evolve or enhance services.
What you bring
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills. Comfortable working with both internal and external stakeholders, often at a senior level.
- Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation.
- Proven experience negotiating fee arrangements and pricing structures either with law firms opposite clients, or within a legal operations function opposite law firms.
- Organisational skills. Strong experience across project and programme leadership
- Analytical skills. Skilled at MS Excel (at least intermediate level) with experience in data analysis, reporting, and performance tracking.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and manage KPIs for legal teams and external vendors.
- Experience in RFP development, vendor assessment, and procurement processes.
- Creative and innovative mindset, with a track record of driving process improvement in a complex, global environment.
- Minimum five years’ experience in a legal sourcing, pricing, or procurement role, preferably in a large law firm or corporate legal department.
- Experience supporting RFP processes and vendor management in a legal or professional services environment.
- Familiarity with Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA) and legal service delivery models.
- Experience with RFP and legal spend management software.
- Background in data analytics and dashboard management; e.g. PowerBI, Tableau
- Flexible and adaptable, with a willingness to take on evolving responsibilities.
- Energetic self-starter with a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
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What’s the role
The front-office Deal Structuring environment at Shell Energy Europe Limited (SEEL) is changing significantly with the growing businesses. The team, under common leadership, is organized into three product lines as Power, Gas and Structured Energy. This structure allows us to develop synergies and accelerate rationalization of products & models while aligning ourselves closely with respective businesses. Deal Structuring Power Team currently consists of 14 structurers leading modelling & valuation of complex asset backed transactions in European power and play a pivotal role in the delivery of material power deals within SEEL working closely with originators and trading desks.
We are looking for an individual who combines quantitative and analytical skill set with a commercial mindset and the ability to manage a complex stakeholder environment. The candidate is expected to quickly build strong relationships with the Power business (origination, trading and mid-office) and increase Deal Structuring activity for the growth of the Power business in Europe.
The Power business in Europe is active in all the major European power markets across the entire power value chain providing structured solutions for customers and counterparties. The role therefore requires keen interest or specialized knowledge of the European power markets and the corresponding regulatory environment as well as an agile, creative mind and strong work ethic to keep pace with the market developments.
The candidate will have the opportunity to participate in external business meetings with customers and on occasion to travel within Europe accompanying originators for external meetings with customers.
What you’ll be doing
This role is an exciting and challenging position with excellent development opportunities across T&S and the wider Shell group. We require a creative individual with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, working under tight deadlines and pressures requiring dynamic expectation management of stakeholders. The candidate will be needed to continue delivering to an excellent standard, with clear focus on the bottom line and priorities in hand. The successful candidate will show the will and the ability to contribute to this objective and to constantly improve personal and team performance.
The main responsibility of the role is to collaborate with the power business and support the growth of the power portfolio in Europe, while being accountable for the methodology of the valuation and risk assessment of complex transactions.
The role specifically involves the following:
- Commercial structuring as well as Financial & Quantitative modelling of complex power transactions
- Represent the Deal Structuring team and build strong relationships working with the local stakeholders in the power business and internal functional departments (Risk, Finance, Credit)
- Collaborate with power originators and traders to create innovative structured products in response to demand and changing market conditions
- Provide specialized knowledge on structure, valuation and risk assessment for opportunities in the European power market
- Provide an independent view on structured transactions, with constructive challenge of the deal owner as required and suggest alternative solutions or improvements
- Develop and own valuation methods and models in python and excel, for pricing and risk assessment of complex structured contracts.
- As part of the deal team proactively engage with commercial project leaders to (re-)structure non-standard transactions during negotiation phase, be creative to suggest alternative solutions and adaption of contract structures
- Collaborate with deal owners to manage and extract value from acquired structured positions
- Maintain an outward mindset and ongoing commitment of Deal Structuring to the One-team approach undefined
What you bring
We are keen to hear from individuals who are quick learners with demonstrable experience of leading individually as well as small teams towards finding solutions to complex business problems, with proven exposure to the Italian market and the ability to grow within a dynamic environment of power trading.
With deal structuring & quantitative analysis at the heart of this role, the candidates would ideally need prior relevant experience in structuring/quantitative analytics and/or qualification in numerical subject (MSc, CFA, CQF, ACA or similar), with proven track record of working in Power/Gas/LNG markets (Preferably one or more European power markets).
Beyond the key requirements mentioned above, strong knowledge or experience in the areas listed below is needed to succeed and thrive in this role:
Required
- Programming in python and Excel VBA
- Developing and maintaining high quality excel financial models for business end use
- Theory and Practice of quantitative finance, models and application to gas and power derivatives
- Experience of structured asset and deal valuations, including risk management strategies.
- Fluency in the English language, with Italian/German speaker advantageous
Advantageous
- Knowledge of corporate finance and accounting principles
- Commercial acumen and strong grasp of principles of long-term commodity investments & risk drivers
- Coaching/mentoring junior team members
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