Strategy and Business Advisor

Beijing, China

Job Family Group:

Commercial and Retail

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

May 9, 2026

Business Unit:

Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Purpose:
Act as the leadership team strategic execution partner to translate strategy into measurable outcomes. The role builds an integrated business fact base and synthesizes cross-functional inputs into senior leader-ready insights and decisions; shapes and incubates a portfolio of priority initiatives from concept to scale; and drives alignment, governance, and organizational change so that priorities land with pace, accountability, and sustainable adoption.

Key Accountabilities

1) Strategic execution & business decision support

• Own leadership-ready materials for the leadership team: decision memos, executive summaries, strategic narratives, and performance insights; ensure storyline is crisp, fact-based, and action-oriented.
• Convert decisions into executable plans: define scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics; drive disciplined follow-up until closure (no loose ends).
• Lead 1–2 business-priority, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end (problem definition → solution design → implementation → value validation), drive accountability and remove blockers.

2) Portfolio shaping & incubation

• Shape the business priority and decision agenda: frame the right questions, clarify decision rights, and ensure critical topics are surfaced with clear options, implications, and recommendations.
• Maintain a VP-level portfolio view of priorities (outcomes, owners, key dependencies, key risks) and propose escalation paths and decision points to protect value delivery.
• Translate strategy into an initiative portfolio: shape value cases, sequencing and interlocks, and define scale/stop criteria (including pilots/experiments) to accelerate learning and impact.

3) Integrated business insights & strategic advisory (single fact base)

• Build and maintain an integrated business fact base for the VP: commercial performance, operational drivers, market/competitor intelligence, and risk/opportunity sizing.
• Synthesize inputs across functions into VP-ready insights: identify themes, root causes, trade-offs, and “so-what”; surface early signals and recommend actions.
• Partner with functions to frame strategic hypotheses (new growth, productivity, capability build), evaluate feasibility, and translate insights into a pipeline of initiatives.
• Support key strategy/portfolio and performance reviews: ensure hypotheses are translated into actions, decisions are documented, and follow-ups are tracked to impact.

4) Organizational change, stakeholder management & leadership communications

Act as the VP Office focal point for priority transformations: define change objectives, stakeholder impacts, adoption risks, and intervention plan (governance + communications + capability/ways of working).

• Own the VP’s internal narrative: craft and cascade key communications with consistent strategic framing, clear call-to-action, and linkage to milestones and accountabilities.
• Build and manage stakeholder map and engagement plan for VP priorities; drive pre-alignment, surface tensions/risks early, and advise the VP on influencing strategy.
• Strengthen change adoption: design two-way communication and feedback loops, track adoption/engagement signals, and propose adjustments to improve understanding and execution.

Dimensions:

• Influence financial business outcome C5 around 200 mln $ (Shell Share)
• Bottomline contribution of special project delivery
• Shell branded volumes around 6 bln L
• Mobility network size of approx. 1,500 sites across 12 provinces
• Direct reports: 0   

Experience & Qualifications

High ownership mindset with strong execution discipline; able to drive outcomes through others without direct authority and ensure rigorous closure.

• High integrity and discretion; able to handle sensitive VP Office topics and confidential information with sound judgment.
• Preferred: 5+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO/strategy execution, or transformation roles; proven track record supporting senior leadership and landing initiatives into measurable results.

• Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving; able to develop options, trade-offs, and recommendations under ambiguity and incomplete data.
• Strong analytical capability and data sensitivity; able to integrate complex internal/external data, build business cases, and track benefits/risks.
• Strong program/project management: governance design, milestone/dependency management, risk & issue management, and execution cadence.
• Executive communication: craft clear storylines and concise materials; facilitate senior forums and drive decisions to actions.
• Strong business/commercial acumen with external orientation; able to connect market dynamics with internal performance levers and transformation opportunities.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills with high EQ; comfortable engaging senior stakeholders in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Ability to mobilize resources across functions, navigate stakeholders, and obtain timely inputs/decisions for the VP.
• Demonstrated strong performance and learning agility in previous roles; proactive, self-motivated, and outcome-oriented.
• Fluency in Mandarin and English (spoken and written); strong ability to work across cultures.

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