Senior Consultant - Technology, Data & AI Strategy

• Lead strategy engagements or major workstreams from sponsor framing through decision and transition to delivery.
• Apply structured problem solving, scenario planning and decision analysis to complex and uncertain questions.
• Analyse business priorities, technology portfolios, industry trends and emerging technologies to develop actionable insight.
• Develop strategic options, opportunity assessments, business cases, value hypotheses and investment recommendations.
• Design and apply AI-enabled approaches across engagements, using AI to accelerate research, deepen analysis and test options, and applying the judgement to validate outputs and recognise where they fall short.
• Shape IT strategies, operating models, capability assessments, portfolio choices and digital, data and AI transformation roadmaps.
• Plan and facilitate workshops that create alignment and move decisions forward.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams across Businesses, Functions, IDT and external partners.
• Communicate complex findings through clear, evidence-led executive narratives.
• Coach colleagues, including in the effective use of AI, and contribute to consulting methods, reusable tools, knowledge, quality and thought leadership.

• A strong record of delivering technology, digital, data, AI or business strategy engagements for senior stakeholders.
• Advanced structured problem-solving, strategy consulting, opportunity assessment and business case development skills.
• Strong analytical and quantitative capability, with the ability to work effectively with incomplete or competing evidence.
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve the speed and quality of analytical or consulting work, with a critical eye for accuracy, bias and confidentiality.
• Excellent strategic storytelling, executive communication, workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial and technology judgement across several relevant areas, such as IT strategy, operating models, capability assessment, portfolio management, digital transformation, data and AI, cost optimisation or enterprise architecture.
• Experience leading projects, workstreams and multidisciplinary teams and translating strategy into practical action.
• Curiosity, pragmatism and the confidence to challenge constructively without relying on formal authority.

• Enterprise-scale work with visible impact on material choices and transformation priorities.
• Direct access to senior decision-makers and complex, consequential problems.
• Varied, high-impact assignments across a broad range of enterprise challenges.
• The opportunity to combine analytical depth, facilitation and influence with strategy-to-execution experience.
• The chance to help shape an AI-enabled consulting practice and build the skills that will define the next generation of strategy work.
• A global consulting community where high-quality thinking, collaboration and constructive challenge are valued.

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,