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Details on the graduate programme and how to apply

The Shell Graduate Programme offers a world-class framework to help you make the most of your potential, personally and professionally.

The Shell Graduate Programme lasts 3 years on average, depending on your chosen area, and is the beginning of a career-long development programme that places high value on flexibility and a great work-life balance.

What to expect on the Programme

  • Your Learning Journey

    Within your 3 year programme, you’ll be moulded to be a future leader through on-the-job challenges, coaching and mentoring and formal training.

  • Tailored Graduate Development

    Your unique Graduate Development Plan is an agreed course of action with your manager to help track your progress and steer your learning.

  • End-of-Programme Assessment

    At the end of your programme, your performance and achievements will be reviewed and will determine your next steps for your career.

Choose the Shell path for you

Shell is one of the world’s largest companies, with variety of roles and opportunities, globally. To help you find the best place for your skills, we’ve organised our Graduate Programme in 2 cities in 3 areas.

Contracting & Procurement

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As a Contract and Procurement Analyst you will be responsible for:

  • Execution of contract strategy
  • Tactics and contract management activities
  • Looking for vendors
  • Negotiations
  • Extracting the best value out of every contract or deal
  • Creating purchase order requisitions

Customer Operations

Customer Service

Customer Operation’s purpose is to deliver the best customer experience and business value, at an affordable cost. In this role, you will be responsible for:

  • Coordinating projects
  • Ensuring all necessary stake holders are involved and that their expectations are managed
  • Proper communication and engagement with business stakeholders and other departments working within the Scrum Framework, as well as being a member of the Scrum Development team

Commercial Road Transport

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This sector supports companies whose primary business is to transport goods by road, primarily with heavy duty vehicles. Globally, the Commercial Road Transport sector holds the key to successfully decarbonizing our economies and rapidly reducing CO2 emissions, which are both critical to reaching the world's climate targets and allowing Shell to continue to generate value with our customers. The Market Analyst role is crucial to the delivery and execution of the Commercial Road Transport strategy to the local markets. A market analyst is responsible for:

  • Examining relevant information that will aid the Commercial Road Transport team to make informed decisions on market strategy including decarbonization
  • Assessing market & competitors’ information

We are looking for someone who is technically proficient in database administration and can effectively identify which data from this system will be useful in determining commercial actions. This role has a moderate travel requirement, with some virtual engagements and some face-to-face customer, market, and/or partner visits

Life beyond learning

Along with opportunities to learn and grow, we want your first years at Shell to be enjoyable, sociable, and to help you develop other skills that are vital for a promising career, from communication to building relationships. Day-to-day life at Shell gives you plenty of chances to meet people, network and really enjoy the social side of work. Whatever your interests, in many locations there’s likely to be Shell sports and social groups. At Shell, work-life balance is highly valued, as is community.

Shell Life

Shell Life

Shell Life is a unique onboarding programme that allows you to meet other grads and business leaders from across Shell in your first few weeks.

Thrive with a supportive community

Thriving with a supportive community

Teamwork is vital for us to achieve our common goal. At Shell, you’ll experience working with a diverse yet collaborative global network who will always be able to help you solve day-to-day challenges.

Apart from being part of the Global Graduate Community, you may also opt to join diversity groups in Shell, including the Women’s Network, the enABLE Network for employees with disabilities, and our LGBT Network.

Listening to what you have to say

Listening to what you have to say

At Shell, you’ll be encouraged voice your ideas and concerns. Your diverse thoughts and inputs are valuable, and you’ll find how leaders will enable you to speak up and share your insights to the table.

Rewarding your hard work

Rewarding your hard work

You’ll be recognised and rewarded with a compensation and benefits package considered to be among the best in the industry, as well as a competitive starter salary, with performance-related pay, shares and allowances.

How to apply?

Our graduates come from different backgrounds, countries and cultures, bringing a huge variety of skills and experiences to our team. But there are a few things we consistently look out for when it comes to applications - things like how you work with others, absorb information, your creative problem-solving abilities and your drive and self-confidence.

The application process

  1. Review the realistic job preview
  2. Take the virtual job tryout and complete the on-demand video interview
  3. Live online interview and presentation with two Shell team members
  4. Shell Connect – successful applications are invited to visit Shell

Our basic requirements

We welcome applicants who have either already graduated from a recognised university or are in the final year of their degree course. In most countries, we don’t ask for specific grades, but a strong academic record will help.

For all our Technical roles in certain countries, we do ask that you’ve already obtained or are studying towards a Master’s degree or equivalent qualification. In other countries, many of our technical roles are for a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

For our Commercial and Corporate roles, we’re looking for a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Which career path?

Use our Degree Matcher to see where your qualifications could take you within Shell. This will help you apply to the specific area of the business that particularly interests you and is relevant to your qualifications.

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