Senior PM & Transformation lead

Location: Greater London

, United Kingdom
** Job Family Group:
** Legal Jobs
** Worker Type:
** Regular
* * Posting

Start Date:

** January 21, 2026
** Business Unit:
** Legal
* * Experience Level:
** Experienced Professionals
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* Job Description:

**** What’s the role
** The Senior Project Manager and Transformation lead sits in the Central Legal Projects team, within Legal Services Global Operations (LSGO).Reporting to the Central Legal projects Manager, the Senior Project Manager and Transformation lead is required to deliver the required transformation in legal, by effectively driving & delivering dedicated projects and effecting change. This is in close partnership with legal, Business and Project stakeholders.

The programmes/projects are all highly complex, as they span multiple distinct businesses, geographies, and stakeholder groups.

The role is expected to deliver efficiencies that enable lawyers to “run” their work without hindrance embracing technology, as well as build capabilities that “change” ways of working. Legal has significant challenges to overcome particularly in embracing technology and adopting ways of working that enable the businesses.

The role focuses on thought leadership, transformation and continuous improvement within legal.  This is a strategic role, responsible for defining and delivering the global transformation and continuous improvement agenda. This Central Projects team and this role partner with the Legal Leadership Team to drive change initiatives in respective teams and business lines that enhance operational excellence, embed digital solutions, and deliver significant cost efficiencies across Shell’s worldwide operations.
** What you’ll be doing
*** Optimize project management/transformation management practices within legal and provide best practice advice, guidance and thought leadership for legal wide challenges.
* Act as a custodian and advocate for the legal project delivery, tools, and templates to ensure that they are to fit for purpose and are professionalize how projects are delivered within legal.
* Lead PM activity for dedicated Transformation projects.
* Defining the business problem statement and develop solutions to implement change
* Guiding stakeholders through a structured process and methodology
* Delivering project outcomes within time, budget, and quality
* Transitioning the project outcomes at project closure to the appropriate business, operations, or risk teams to allow them to embed the changes.
* Business case - define the problem statement with the business and obtain business buy-in for the project.
* Global reach:
Influence and implement transformation across Shell Legal teams in countries, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities while respecting local regulatory and cultural contexts. Engaging with business leaders and teams to influence behavior on legal risks.
* Executive engagement:
Act as a trusted advisor to legal leadership team to help make shaping decisions that impact on Shell’s global legal strategy.
* Value Generation:
Deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, cost savings, and digital adoption, generating multi-million-dollar benefits for Shell.
* Strategic Alignment:
Ensure transformation initiatives support Shell’s Powering Progress strategy, including energy transition, sustainability, and digitalization.
** What you bring
*** Transformation leadership:  + Define and execute a multi-year transformation roadmap for Shell Legal.  + Support the Central legal Projects manager to Lead global programs focused on process optimisation, technology enablement, and implement the breadth of the new Legal Operating Model to realise the full value.
* Change & Engage:  + Design and implement a bespoke change strategy to embed new ways of working across diverse geographies.  + Oversee, guide and advise the Transformation initiatives in the legal projects team in support of the Projects Manager to create a holistic picture of the change effort across the full legal function  + Design a cultural change programme and capability building programme within the Legal function, that has ripple effects across the full Shell organisation, to enable the Legal Operating Model.
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