Legal Counsel

What’s The Role

The Legal Counsel Supply Chain sits within the Legal Services Integrated Gas team, supporting Supply Chain organisation and reporting to Managing Counsel, Supply Chain.

Supply Chain is an end to end business, generating value for shareholders via delivery of non-hydrocarbon goods and services to Shell’s global businesses and assets, partnering with Shell Businesses to manage $42bn of non-hydrocarbon spend across c.22,000 contracts p/a.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Legal Counsel, Supply Chain will provide professional, timely, cost effective and practical legal advice and support to the Supply Chain organization, across the Shell value chain. The role requires an enthusiastic experienced commercial lawyer, with an interest in understanding, supporting and working closely with businesses across the end-to-end value chain.

In particular, the Legal Counsel, Supply Chain will provide legal support for i) legal advice around macro events (e.g. wars, tariffs) ii) high value, high risk contracts iii) supplier claims/ pre dispute contract management and iv) digitalization and continuous improvement programmes.

This role works primarily with the Supply Chain business supporting the mobility and lubricants businesses in China. The role also provides support for other global Supply Chain work as required.

The core elements of the role involve:

• Providing legal advice- ensuring that legal considerations, including mitigation of legal risks, are considered in operations, planning activities and contracting
• Negotiating and drafting high risk and high value contracts and other legal documentation
• Advising on proposed commercial strategies including resolving commercial differences in both Chinese and English language.
• Proposing initiatives to enable and drive digitalisation agenda and continuous improvement in the efficiency of legal support.
• Deliver trainings to Supply Chain on specific legal areas of concern including contract trainings and ethics & compliance trainings.
  
  

What You Bring

• Law degree or professional legal qualification and entitlement to practice in Malaysia/China/UK
• Fluent written and spoken Chinese language skills.
• 8-10+ PQE in an in-house or law firm environment.
• Experience of providing legal support to Supply Chain/procurement business (or equivalent) is ideal.
• Ability to clearly explain legal risks, develop sound mitigation strategies and find acceptable commercial solutions.
• Experience in creating and delivering optimisation and change management programs would be beneficial.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
  
  

Key Competences and Behaviors

• Legal excellence through strong analytical and problem-solving capability, high quality drafting skills balanced with appropriate risk tolerance and commercial awareness.
• Understands commercial drivers and frames advice that enables business outcomes while protecting Shell’s licence to operate.
• Maximizing performance by prioritizing high value, high risk work, and using digital tools to improve efficiency and reduce low value activity.
• Digital fluency and AI-readiness are critical; must demonstrate confidence in adopting technologies, and using AI tools to enhance quality, speed and consistency of legal support.
• One Team mindset, operating collaboratively across boundaries, functions, and geographies, sharing knowledge, and contributing proactively to Legal’s collective performance.
• Values led, acting with honesty, integrity and respect for people. A clear commitment to the highest standards of ethical and compliant behaviour as well as inclusive leadership, modelling behaviours that support a commitment to E&C and DEI. Role modelling behaviors aligned with Shell’s refreshed SPF, Code of Conduct and reinforcing a constructive speak up culture. Willing to share and learn from mistakes.
  
  

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 performancerelated 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 Business Operations (SBO) in Malaysia

Shell Business Operations (SBO) is a chain of operational centers that form an integral part of Royal Dutch Shell. We influence business development for Shell globally, enabling the work of 93,000 employees in over 70 countries across the world.

SBO Kuala Lumpur is home to 11 different functions that support Shell within the Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Middle East region. Housing more than 2000 employees, SBO Kuala Lumpur is focused on driving excellent corporate performance that enable Shell to operate in a global competitive and ever-changing business environment.

Shell Business Operations (SBO) Kuala Lumpur is focused on driving excellent corporate performance in Contracting and Procurement, Creative Solutions, Customer Operations, Finance Operations, Human Resource, Information Technology, Legal Operations, Retail Centre of Excellence, Supply Chain, Technical Asset Operation and Upstream Transformation. We enable Shell to operate in a global-competitive and ever-changing business environment