Principal Consultant & Practice Lead

• Set the direction, priorities, operating model and portfolio for the practice.
• Act as a trusted adviser to senior business and technology leaders on enterprise technology, digital, data and AI choices.
• Personally lead the most strategically important engagements from problem definition through actionable recommendations, and assure decision framing, analysis quality and outcomes across the portfolio.
• Connect technology choices to business value, governance, operating models and capability requirements, and align enterprise, business, domain and portfolio strategies, surfacing trade-offs and opportunities for alignment.
• Oversee the development of strategic options, scenarios, business cases, investment choices and transformation roadmaps.
• Carry strategic intent into mobilisation and implementation and track the measurable outcomes it delivers.
• Build and lead a diverse, high-performing consulting team, including recruitment, deployment, performance, coaching and succession.
• Establish and assure consulting methods, decision-quality standards, thought leadership and reusable intellectual property.
• Lead the reinvention of how the practice works with AI, using it to increase the speed, depth and reach of insight generation, analysis, knowledge reuse and decision support, and set standards for its responsible use.
• Build partnerships across Shell and with external organisations to bring relevant market, industry and technology insight into decision-making.
• Demonstrate the value and impact of the practice through clear outcomes, stakeholder trust and capability growth.

• A strong record of leading a strategy consulting practice, enterprise strategy or technology strategy capability, at Partner, Associate Partner, Principal, Director or equivalent level, in a consultancy or large, complex organisation.
• Exceptional strategic leadership, structured problem-solving, decision analysis and strategy consulting capability.
• Executive presence and a record of working directly with C-level leaders, with the credibility to advise, challenge and influence senior leaders across organisational boundaries.
• Broad commercial and technology judgement across IT strategy, operating models, digital transformation, data and AI, enterprise architecture, portfolio management and emerging technology, with enough depth to challenge specialists and connect choices to enterprise value.
• A record of shaping material decisions and delivering measurable business outcomes through complex transformation portfolios, strategic programmes, opportunity assessments and business cases.
• Proven leadership of senior professionals, including team design, hiring, talent development, performance management and coaching.
• Experience building or growing a consulting practice, team or centre of excellence, including its methods, intellectual property and thought leadership.
• Successful track record redesigning how strategy or consulting work is done using AI and data
• The ability to create an inclusive, collaborative and high-accountability culture while operating through influence in a global matrix.

• Enterprise-wide influence on material technology, digital, data and AI choices.
• Direct engagement with senior decision-makers, from IT leadership to the C-suite, on complex, consequential challenges.
• Demand for the team is strong. As a result the practice prioritises our work around Shell's most important challenges.
• The variety and impact of external consulting within one global enterprise, no sales targets, deeper relationships and the chance to materially influence implementation and results.
• The chance to develop a distinctive team and leave a lasting capability legacy.

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.

• 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.
• Competitive pay and benefits packages.
• 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,