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**Role: Strategy and Business Advisor** Sector-leading strategist required to partner with leadership, driving strategic execution from concept to scale. Key responsibilities include translating strategy into measurable outcomes, leading cross-functional initiatives, maintaining a robust business fact base, and fostering organizational change.minimum 5+ years in consulting, strategy, PMO, or transformation roles, plus strong analytical, execution, and stakeholder management skills. Mandatory fluency in Mandarin and English. Shape business outcomes worth up to $200M, impacting 6BN liters Shell share and reflecting a mobility network of 1,500 sites across 12 provinces.
- Compensation
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- City
- Beijing
- Country
- China
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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 12 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 VPs 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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