, India
Job Family Group:
Legal Jobs
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
March 10, 2025
Business unit:
Legal
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role
At Shell India, our Retail, Lubricant, and other downstream businesses operate within a complex legal and regulatory environment, involving multiple authorities at the federal, state, and local levels. We also adhere to a detailed set of internal policies, procedures, and controls.
What you’ll be doing
- Work independently without supervision.
- Take the legal lead on various high-value and strategically important matters for Shell India.
- You will handle a variety of legal matters, including:
- Retail network expansion and real estate transactions.
- Lubricant manufacturing, sales, and supply.
- Commercial contracts and procurement.
- Foreign exchange transactions.
- Employer-employee issues and disputes.
- Environmental matters.
- Litigation management in the context of Shell's evolving business.
What you bring
- A law graduate with an LL.B degree and have over 7+ years of post-qualification experience, primarily in law firms.
- Legal Expertise: You will provide professional, proactive, timely, cost-effective, practical, and commercially savvy legal advice and support. You can identify legal risks in various situations and offer alternative strategies and mitigation steps that balance business goals and legal protection.
- Leadership: You will independently lead continuous engagements with business and functional leaders, managing their legal support and expectations based on value and risk parameters.
- Collaboration: You recognize when to involve legal colleagues from other departments and regional/global teams. You collaborate and coordinate with them, integrating their inputs to achieve business goals while mitigating risks.
- Representation: You represent Shell in legal negotiations and engagements with third parties, protecting Shell’s rights and reputation in all financial, contractual, and other arrangements. You provide legal support according to the highest ethical standards and Shell's internal guidelines.
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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.
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Shell
Who We Are
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.
Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.
Our approach
Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.
Our values
At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
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