Job Description

, India

Job Family Group:

Human Resources Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

March 31, 2026

Business Unit:

Human Resources

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

What’s the role

As a Recruiter for Experienced Hires, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Shell’s future by identifying, attracting, and securing exceptional talent. You will manage the full recruitment lifecycle for ML3 and below positions, ensuring that every hire strengthens our competitive edge and supports our business ambitions.

What you’ll be doing

Translating Strategy into Action:

• Partner across the IR/HR ecosystem and with Hiring Managers to understand business priorities, talent strategies, and resourcing needs, converting them into actionable recruitment plans.

• Deliver hires with speed, quality, cost efficiency, and uncompromising compliance, while advancing Shell’s DEI aspirations.

• Operating primarily within a designated Primary Market, you will also flex across additional markets as business resourcing needs evolve. This may require working across time zones to ensure seamless delivery against KPIs and service expectations.

End-to-End Resourcing:

• Lead the full Experienced Hire resourcing process, ensuring seamless, high-quality, and compliant delivery.

• Conduct job briefs, assessments, and manage offer and regret processes to achieve strong Hiring Manager satisfaction.

Know your Market:

• Develop deep understanding of business and country requirements and cultural enablers within your Primary Market.

• Work with Sourcer to build and nurture pipelines for key skill pools, ensuring a steady flow of high-quality candidates.

Candidate & Stakeholder Experience:

• Represent Shell and our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) confidently in all interactions.

• Create a world class candidate experience that converts talent into successful hires.

• Build strong, trusted relationships with Business Leadership Teams, HR, and Talent Advisors.

Collaboration & Project Delivery:

• Work across skills and lines of business to achieve shared resourcing goals.

• Collaborate and work as One team with IR/HR Eco system for End-to-End delivery of resourcing, specifically with Sourcers, Marketing, Assessment Management, Hire and Onboard, HR advice, Policy and Benefits and Pay teams.

• Actively contribute to the global community of Recruiters.

• Participate in and at times lead, local, regional, and global resourcing improvement projects.

Operational Excellence:

• Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities across processes and tools.
  Strictly adhere to and safeguard compliance and uphold high standards of data quality and integrity.

• Champion globally standardised resourcing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

What you bring

• Experience in talent acquisition, recruitment, or sourcing, with strong knowledge of sourcing techniques, recruitment tools, and talent strategies.

• Solid understanding of HR policies and local employment legislation.

• Proven relationship building skills, with the ability to convert candidates and influence a range of stakeholders.

• Strong team player who fosters inclusive, supportive collaboration.

• Skilled in navigating challenging conversations and market dynamics with confidence and professionalism.

• Ability to use data and insights to monitor performance and shape strategy.

• Ability to multitask effectively across multiple roles and priorities.

• Expected digital and data savviness to analyse resourcing trends in market and self-manage KPIs.

• Resilient, agile, adaptable and able to operate in a fast-changing business and talent landscape.

• Demonstrated commitment to compliance, data quality, and housekeeping practices.
  A strong curiosity to learn and demonstrated ability to nurture a psychologically safe and inclusive environment within which teams and individuals can thrive.

This role follows a defined shift pattern based on the markets supported. The working hours are: 12pm-9pm. Also, this role follows a hybrid work model, requiring three days a week in the office.

In addition, employees are expected to maintain reasonable flexibility to adjust their working hours when required to engage with candidates, hiring managers, or stakeholders across time zones. Flexibility may include work outside of the standard shift.

We encourage employees to share if they have specific flexible working requirements. Flexibility will mean different things to different people, and we are interested to know what might be needed to help you succeed and be at your best. We will endeavour to accommodate those requirements with consideration both for what is required in the role and taking the lead from a local country policy perspective.

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 value-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 among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organization 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 programs.

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

IMPORTANT NOTE: After you submit your application, you will receive an email providing a link to an online assessment that is a mandatory part of the process. The email will come from HireVue - please check your spam/junk mailbox if you do not see the email. Once completed, your application will be reviewed to determine next steps. Thank you for your interest in Shell.

Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalization, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates an LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and an LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Spring Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Spring is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centers across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programs on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.

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