Details on the graduate programme and how to apply
The Shell Graduate Programme offers a world-class framework to help you make the most of your potential, personally and professionally.
The Shell Graduate Programme lasts at least 3 years, and is the beginning of a career-long development that places high value on flexibility and a great work-life balance.
What to expect on the Programme
Your Learning Journey
Within your three years in the programme, you will be molded to be a future leader through a range of development opportunities which may include job rotations, on-the-job challenges, formal training and coaching.
Tailored Graduate Development
At Shell, we empower graduates to take ownership of your own development.
Co-created by you and your line manager to make the best of your individual strengths, your unique plan is an agreed course of action to help you keep track of your progress and steer your learning.
Using this plan as a guide, you will actively manage your development while your line manager will provide the necessary enablement.
End-of-Programme Assessment
At the end of your programme, your performance and achievements will be reviewed. Upon a successful outcome, an exciting next phase of the journey will commence.
Choose the Shell path for you
Shell is one of the world’s largest companies, with variety of roles and opportunities, globally. To help you find the best place for your skills, we have organised our Graduate Programme into three distinct business areas.
Shell Trading & Supply (T&S) is one of the largest energy trading organisations in the world with hubs in London, Houston, Singapore, Dubai and Rotterdam.
We support the Shell group through trading crude oil, refined products, low-carbon fuels, power, liquefied natural gas (LNG), chemical feedstocks, environmental products and freight services in trading hubs around the world. We are active in most energy markets across the globe, sourcing from a wide range of suppliers and selling to a wide range of customers.
T&S consists of a number of separate businesses that belong to the Shell group of companies. This provides us access to an integrated network of supply and distribution activities and industry-leading shipping and maritime capabilities, allowing us to operate as a truly integrated supply chain and add value to Shell across multiple facets of our business from Upstream and Integrated Gas to the Downstream and Renewables businesses.
We strive to bring stable and secure energy to millions of communities across the world while continuing to push towards a net-zero carbon future. Our people in Trading and Supply ensure this energy reaches our customers on time, efficiently and at better value by forging mutually beneficial partnerships.
Your Shell Trading & Supply Graduate Programme experience
On-the-job experience in this area entails two 18-month rotations in Trading and Supply businesses, exposure across commodities and geographical scope where possible. The objective is to give you exposure to Operations, Analytics, Risk, Compliance and Business Development within Trading and Supply, supported by formal training. Upon successful completion of the Roundtable assessment, you will be able to further develop your knowledge within one of the multiple business lines in Trading & Supply.
Why apply for a Trading and Supply Graduate role?
Drive global solutions
At Trading & Supply, our focus on enabling real growth and change at scale means that you can help to power lives across the planet. Our collaborative approach to problem-solving will give you the opportunity to work with partners across multiple disciplines and to innovate for a cleaner energy future.
Get empowered, thrive in your career
Shell’s global business reach ensures there are always a variety of projects to engage your interests, enabling you to collaborate with industry experts, make meaningful connections, learn from peers around the globe and grow your career. Reinforcing this is our culture of respect, care and inclusivity that creates an environment where everyone should feel safe and empowered.
Explore your passions through diverse opportunities
As a Graduate at Shell Trading & Supply, you can look forward to a fulfilling career, with global opportunities and the flexibility to try different roles to find your true passion. We are looking for bright minds that enjoy a challenge and look forward to making a positive impact.
Lines of business you can explore
Products
Our Products team ensures that our customers receive fuels on time. Our people source refined products and feedstocks from a wide range of global suppliers and deliver 6 million barrels of fuels to customers each day.
Crude
The Crude team trades more than 8 million barrels of physical oil each day. We are active in most crude oil markets, sourcing from a wide range of suppliers and selling to a wide range of customers both internal and external to Shell.
Commercial Operations
Our Commercial Operations team makes Trading and Supply an easy organisation to work, transact and partner with. Our teams constantly work towards advancing our processes, platforms and data capabilities to deliver a seamless experience to our partners and customers.
Energy
Our Energy team provides LNG, gas, power, and environmental products by growing integrated value chains and unlocking demand. They also lead industry sector decarbonisation on behalf of Shell by exploring and managing emerging value chains such as the marketing of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Compliance
"The T&S Graduate Programme challenges you professionally, but also gives you the means needed to excel. It empowered me to feel like I was working towards something while helping me see my growth throughout the process."
Eric, Sale Rotational Analyst
"Shell is one of the world’s largest commodities trading firms and the people that make up T&S have decades of experience to share and learn from, which makes being here a truly one-of-a-kind experience for those early in their career."
Patrick, Commercial Operator
Life beyond learning
Along with opportunities to learn and grow, we want your first years at Shell to be enjoyable, sociable, and to help you develop other skills that are vital for a promising career, from communication to building relationships. Day-to-day life at Shell gives you plenty of chances to meet people, network and really enjoy the social side of work. At Shell, work-life balance is highly valued, as is community.
Powering Graduates
Powering Graduates offers a series of unique development opportunities relevant for all the Graduates regardless of their business area.
Thriving with a supportive community
Teamwork is vital for us to achieve our common goal. At Shell, you will experience working with a diverse and collaborative global network who will always be able to help you solve day-to-day challenges.
Apart from being part of the Global Graduate Community, you are also welcome to join Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in Shell, including the Women’s Network, the enABLE Network for employees with disabilities, and our LGBT+ Network, among others.
Listening to what you have to say
At Shell, you’ll be encouraged to voice your ideas and concerns. Your diverse thoughts and inputs are valuable, and you’ll find how leaders will enable you to speak up and share your insights to the table.
Rewarding your hard work
You’ll be recognized and rewarded with a compensation and benefits package considered to be among the best in the industry, including a competitive starter salary, with performance related pay and allowances.
How to apply?
Our Graduates, while diverse in background and skillsets, come together with key traits and behaviours that aid their success in the programme. These include qualities such as their capacity to analyse situations and propose purposeful solutions that align with our strategic goals, adaptability towards learning and growing from feedback in order to deliver results, and how they nurture relationships and work effectively with a diverse team.
The application process
What we look for
Our Graduates, while diverse in background and skillsets, come together with key traits and behaviours that aid their success in the programme. These include qualities such as their capacity to analyse situations and propose purposeful solutions that align with our strategic goals, adaptability towards learning and growing from feedback in order to deliver results, and how they nurture relationships and work effectively with a diverse team.
Our basic requirements
We welcome applicants who have either already graduated from a recognised university or are in the final year of their degree course.
For Technical roles in certain countries, we do ask that you have already obtained or are studying towards a Master’s degree or equivalent qualification. In other countries, many of our technical roles are for a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
For Commercial and Global Functions roles, we are looking for a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Validity of the assessment outcome
Please note that after submitting a Graduate Programme application, any further applications during a 10-month period will be auto-progressed, based on the outcome of the first application. Therefore, if you have a successful application and re-apply to a different position in a 10-month period, your application will automatically proceed through Stage One. Alternatively, if you have an unsuccessful application and re-apply to a different position in a 10-month period, your application will be automatically regretted.
