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Exciting job Opportunity at Shell India
Shell India, a leading organization in the legal industry, is seeking a talented Legal Counsel to join their team in Gurgaon. This is an excellent opportunity for a Legal Counsel professional to advance their career in Legal.
Position Overview
- Position: Legal Counsel
- Company: Shell India
- Location: Gurgaon
- Type: Job
- Work Arrangement: Hybrid
- Experience Level: Legal Counsel
- Practice Area: Legal
About the Role
This Legal Counsel position offers an outstanding opportunity to work with Shell India's dynamic legal team. The role involves:
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Job Family Group:
Legal Jobs
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
July 28, 2025
Business unit:
Legal
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role
At Shell India, our Retail, Lubricant, and other downstream businesses operate within a complex legal and regulatory environment, involving multiple authorities at the federal, state, and local levels. We also adhere to a detailed set of internal policies, procedures, and controls.
What you’ll be doing
- Work independently without supervision.
- Take the legal lead on various high-value and strategically important matters for Shell India.
- You will handle a variety of legal matters, including:
- Retail network expansion and real estate transactions.
- Lubricant manufacturing, sales, and supply.
- Commercial contracts and procurement.
- Foreign exchange transactions.
- Employer-employee issues and disputes.
- Environmental matters.
- Litigation management in the context of Shell's evolving business.
What you bring
- A law graduate with an LL.B degree and have over 7+ years of post-qualification experience, primarily in law firms.
- Legal Expertise: You will provide professional, proactive, timely, cost-effective, practical, and commercially savvy legal advice and support. You can identify legal risks in various situations and offer alternative strategies and mitigation steps that balance business goals and legal protection.
- Leadership: You will independently lead continuous engagements with business and functional leaders, managing their legal support and expectations based on value and risk parameters.
- Collaboration: You recognize when to involve legal colleagues from other departments and regional/global teams. You collaborate and coordinate with them, integrating their inputs to achieve business goals while mitigating risks.
- Representation: You represent Shell in legal negotiations and engagements with third parties, protecting Shell’s rights and reputation in all financial, contractual, and other arrangements. You provide legal support according to the highest ethical standards and Shell's internal guidelines.
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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 performance related 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.
We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.
Shell
Who We Are
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.
Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.
Our approach
Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.
Our values
At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
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DISCLAIMER:
Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Shell jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Before applying, you are advised to read our data protection policy. This policy describes the processing that may be associated with your personal data and informs you that your personal data may be transferred to Shell/Shell Group companies around the world. The Shell Group and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Shell. Anyone who demands such a fee is not an authorised Shell representative and you are strongly advised to refuse any such demand. Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements and Qualifications
Why Join Shell India?
Shell India offers an exceptional work environment where legal professionals can thrive and grow their careers. Benefits of joining their team include:
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Professional development opportunities
- Collaborative and supportive work environment
- Opportunity to work on challenging and meaningful cases
- Work-life balance initiatives
How to Apply
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