Lead Consultant Strategic Change

Profile

, Netherlands

Job Family Group:

Human Resources Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 5, 2022

Business unit:

Human Resources

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Are you an experienced consultant with deep knowledge and passion for strategic change and project management who is familiar with large scale organisational and operating model transformations? Are you keen to grow our internal change- and project management capability? Are you excited to work in a highly collaborative, fast-moving environment where you can contribute to Shell’s objective to be successful in the Energy Transition? Then this is your opportunity!

WHERE YOU FIT IN

The demands of our customers, partners and society, and creation of new technologies and innovations require us to adapt and change. The strategic change programmes in our businesses are often supported by external project- and change experts. Given the speed and magnitude of change, we have an ambition to develop this competency and skill within our own organisation. The Lead Consultant Strategic Change will be the lead expert who is accountable to shape, build and optimize our internal expertise and practice around change and project management in order for Shell to drive efficiency, consistency and impact in our priority change projects. In additional to shaping and developing our internal strategic change and project management capability, you will also be deployed as Lead Consultant on strategic change management projects across the Shell businesses. The level of the role is comparable with senior manager roles in consultancy.

This role is part of the Organisational Development & Learning (OD&L) consulting community which includes a team of specialist consultants for Organisational Development, Leadership and Team Development and Change and Project Management. This role will report to Manager Leadership, Team Development and Strategic Change.

WHAT IS THE ROLE

In this position, you will:

Shape and develop our internal change- and project management capabilities in order to manage strategic change projects in a more effective and consistent way.

Work in close collaboration with business leaders, OD&L, HR, Organisational Development Consultants, and other specialists to ensure an integrated approach.

Coach and develop colleagues in the teams you are working.

Act as Change and Project Manager for critical business projects. The specific Change and Projects Management accountabilities will include:

Agree and deliver a body of work, organised into programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk, and benefit profiles, delivered within Shell's standards and controls framework.

Lead selection of appropriate change approach, like Agile vs. Waterfall.

Proactively analyse variances against plan to assess trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments.

Engage internal and external stakeholders and align expectations and ensure that the decision-making of stakeholders happen in a timely and effective manner.

Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes in order to maximize benefits.

Mobilize and lead teams composed of a mixture of staff and suppliers across organisational boundaries. Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity, and experience to achieve the required outcomes.

Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments.

Understand, assess, and embed the right delivery methodologies, in light of project and business constraints.

Assess programme risks as they are encountered and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and ultimately benefit, continuously managing the business cases of constituent projects and workstreams.

Ensure that all deliverables, whether software, hardware, processes, products, or business change are fit for purpose and meet all relevant requirements.

Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

You will bring:

Extensive experience and proven track record in project managing large scale, complex OD/ change management interventions or business process improvement.

Experience of highly complex programmes operating using multiple methodologies, operating over more than one financial year and impacting an entire line of business, with components of business restructuring or operating model changes.

Talent for working in international and global project/program teams combined with the ability and confidence to work in high-ambiguity environments where senior leaders may need to be (respectfully) challenged.

Expert consulting skills with experience in managing client relationships in high-pressure environment.

Experience of running programs/projects with >10 people, with teams in multiple countries.

Experience of both agile and waterfall methodologies.

Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills - experience in working as trusted advisor at senior business leader level on critical, complex challenges.

Strong collaboration skills to work effectively across various business and functions

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DISCLAIMER:

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According to the United Nations, the global population could increase to more than 10 billion people. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to meet the growing demand for energy, with less carbon emissions. We need people who dare to think differently – to take part in developing tomorrow’s energy solutions today.

Company info

Shell .
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