Er/ir Advisor

, India
**Job Family Group**:
Human Resources Jobs
**Worker Type**:
Regular
**Posting Start Date**:
September 30, 2025
**Business unit**:
Human Resources
**Experience Level**:
Experienced Professionals

**What’s the role**

In this role, you'll take the lead in proactively managing and nurturing a healthy Employee Relations/Industrial Relations (ER/IR) environment. You'll use data to spot emerging trends and craft strategies to mitigate potential future risks. You will report directly to the ERIR Manager, India, and work as an individual contributor.

**What you’ll be doing**
- **Employee Relations and Labor Compliance**
- Identify internal and external risks and ensure compliance with external legislative requirements as well as ensure good knowledge of Labor Practice standards internally and keep up to date with the external news and development.
- Manage or lead high-impact or high-risk individual or collective disciplinary, grievance or other ER/IR issues.
- Ensure governance of Statutory Compliances
- Facilitate and attend Labor Inspections and Audits
- Work with the Country Compliance Conduit
- Protecting our license to operate
- Mitigation from current Labor laws to four prospective labor codes.
- **Industrial Relations**
- Represent Shell as an expert on labor issues with Govt authorities.
- Assess IR management component of contractor tenders and manage relationship with employers of contractors (regulation of terms, co-employment risk)
Have oversight and influence of major contractors in their IR strategy/tactics where applicable (consult with CP)
- **HSSE, Compliance & Ethics**
- Proactively establish local crisis management governance and collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g., RE, Shell Health) to handle HR aspects effectively.
- Actively monitor a pulse of what goes on in the organization and anticipate what topics can grow into grievances (also through the line and HR Advice)
- Take the lead on HR investigations, GHL complaints, and other grievances, ensuring timely resolution.
- Ensure duty of care towards employees and contractors

**What you bring**
- An expert with at least 8+ years of experience in labor laws, labor compliance, complex case management, and the implementation of new legislation in India.
- Possess in-depth knowledge of country-specific ER/IR legislation, regulations, directives, practices, and processes.
- Able to identify and understand local external market trends (economic, political, social) and derive insights to drive effective a long-term ER/IR environment.
- Have awareness of organizational health/capability diagnostic and design skills
- Ability to analyze data and provide insights. Demonstrating strong diagnostic and evaluation skills - able to distill key themes and value drivers from complex and sometimes conflicting data and insights.
- Leverage influencing skills to effectively manage a broad range of both external and internal stakeholders including third party bodies and government agencies.
- Bring strong understanding of HR and influencing skills (with other parts of the HR organization)

**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**.**

**Who We Are**

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