# Government Relations Manager

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: China World Trade Centre
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Government Relations Manager will support Shell China's Downstream, Projects & Technology, and selected Renewable Energy Solutions businesses by developing and managing strategic relationships with central and local government authorities, state-owned enterprises, national oil companies, and other key external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Identify, map, and prioritize key stakeholders across central and local government, SOEs, and national oil companies.

- Build and maintain trusted, multi-level relationships with senior officials and working-level stakeholders across relevant regions.

- Advise business and functional leaders on government structures, policy dynamics, decision-making processes, and stakeholder engagement strategies.

- Support senior-level engagements, negotiations, and business development discussions with authorities including NDRC, MOFCOM, and provincial and municipal governments.

- Lead issue management by leveraging strong relationships with government stakeholders and business partners.

- Coordinate stakeholder priorities across businesses to ensure consistent, seamless, and well-resourced external engagement.

Requirements:

- Master's degree or postgraduate qualification, with at least 10 years of government affairs or stakeholder relations experience across government, SOEs, and multinational companies.

- Strong understanding of China's government structure, decision-making processes, SOE landscape, business environment, and energy sector.

- Experience with central government, multinational energy companies, or the oil and gas industry is preferred.

- Proven ability to build influential stakeholder relationships, support business outcomes, and manage complex issues.

- Excellent communication, networking, influencing, and negotiation skills, with fluency in written and spoken Chinese and English.

- High integrity, maturity, political sensitivity, and business judgment, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a complex matrix organization.

## Skills

### Required
- government relations
- stakeholder management
- policy analysis
- negotiation
- communication
- Chinese
- English

### Nice to have
- experience with central government
- multinational energy companies
- oil and gas industry

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