Job description:

Purpose and Accountabilities:

Hungry for new Technologies? Are you ready to design the future landscape of Shell business?
Join the Commercial and Market Research Analysis (CAMRA) team! CAMRA is a newly created team that will provide fact-based insights for technology investment decisions and deployment strategies. Supporting and enabling Contracting & ProcurementTechnology Supply Chain Leads, CAMRA will exploit market research methodologies improving Shell’s innovation deployment.

Accountabilities:

1. Technology market research support

   1. Exploit market research databases, academic literature, and internal/external subject matter experts; process, synthesize and integrate diverse inputs to support an accurate, insightful and in-depth analysis. In limited instances, employ primary research methodologies to inform high value technology investment/ deployment decisions.

   2. Outputs include: commercial solution search, market size/segmentation, tech SWOT, trade study, trend/driver analysis, taxonomy, competitive landscape, candidate screening, etc.

2. Commercialization framing support

   1. Participate in decision framing sessions; clarify and refine core assumptions/hypothesis, capture data and knowledge gaps which require market research

   2. Outputs include: technology business case, Buy-Collaborate-Build (BCB) decision, partner selection, supply/value chain map

3. Technology platform market domain expert

   1. Continuously develop market domain expertise for assigned technology platforms, supporting SCL’s annual input to Technology Maturation Plans (TMP)

4. Cross-platform technology theme domain expert (ex. Robotic inspections)

   1. Assess and communicate the impact of technology themes across all applicable technology platforms; highlighting applicability, impact, maturity, current/future providers, etc.

5. Tools, Training, and Administration

   1. Develop and maintain commercialization and market research: tools, knowledge management systems, and competence development programs

   2. Contract holder for third party market research contractors; proactively addressing and improving performance
      

Requirements:
Skills and Requirements

You have:

• (at minimum) Bachelor’s degree, ideally in Marketing/Sales, Economics or Business Administration;

• Excellent spoken and written English;

• Superior presentation skills with a keen eye for detail;

• Excellent skills in MS Excel (data cleaning, statistical analysis, pivot tables, advanced tables/charts), MS Word, and PowerPoint is a must;

• Intermediate skills in PowerBI and other visualization tools is preferred;

• Proficiency in handling multiple concurrent projects and deadlines;

• High integrity, energy and enthusiasm.
  

You can evidence:

• Excellent research skills, including experience with database search functionality (ex. Boolean);

• Ability to frame decisions and identify information requirements;

• Ability to analyze data to draw conclusions, produce insights, and recommend actions;

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to be an effective business partner, building trust and influencing across a variety of organizational levels within a virtual, global environment;

• Ability to prepare and deliver professional, coherent and effective written and spoken material, distilling complex messages to succinct, focused messages;

• History of scaling efforts within given constraints (time, data availability, etc) to deliver value and meet deadlines;

• Solid project management skills.

• Sound understanding of how the Shell Group generates and loses value

You are:

• A self-starter;

• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to work with incomplete data or open-ended questions;

• Effective at managing stakeholder expectations;

• A logical, analytical, curious, and creative thinker who learns quickly;

• Voracious reader, able to consume large quantities of content and extract key take-aways;

• Willing/ able to be flexible and support your team mates when required to deliver team objectives;

• Striving for continuous improvement, with a personal commitment to deliver high quality output;

• Eager to develop your skills in role, through self-study and through formal training.

Number of Vacancies: 1