Title: Shell Business Operations – Finance Operations – Sundar’s story
Duration: 1:15 minutes
Description: In this video, witness how Sundar dealt with life’s unexpected turns by receiving the right support from his team and leaders and feeling empowered to achieve professional growth.
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Sound of Shell – Innovative Determined
Sundar: How do you deal with life’s unexpected turns?
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How Do You Deal With Life’s Unexpected Turns?
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We show Sundar with a reminiscent look, looking out of the window in office space with out-of-focus window blinds in the background
Sundar: Hi, I’m Sundar. I’m Shell’s Operation Manager for Group Services & Recoveries.
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Sundar
Operations Manager
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We show Sundar sitting on a chair talking to the camera, in an office setting with an out-of-focus plant in the background.
Sundar: Having been at Shell for years has broadened my growth beyond just work.
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Growth
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We show an animated carousel with the effect of an old camera film where we display various pictures of Sundar with his colleagues and teams across various stages of his Shell career.
Sundar: My diverse roles and internal development training programmes, along with external benchmarking exercises have expanded my perspective.
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Diverse roles
Internal development training programmes
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We show Sundar sitting on a chair in office with Picture-in-picture images of him training, working, discussing with his colleagues.
Sundar: Currently, I handle revenue generation, for Shell entities through various cost recovery initiatives.
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Revenue generation
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We show Sundar speaking to the camera, sitting at a work desk with computer and people working in the background.
Sundar: My efforts directly benefit shareholders, bolstering the company’s financial health, which in turn supports energy transition.
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Financial health
Energy Transition
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We show a footage of professional handshake with an overlay of financial graphs and charts followed by multisplit screen with footages of a oil rig, solar farm and windmill farm.
Suundar: Yet, it hasn’t been all about numbers and spreadsheets.
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Numbers and spreadsheets
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We show a footage of Sundar leaning forward talking to the camera with a plant out-of-focus in the background.
Sundar: Shell has shown true commitment and support during the tough times, through personal loss and more.
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Commitment and Support
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We show a footage where we see a silhouette of Sundar looking out of a window reminiscing on past memories followed by images of him with his wife in a Camera roll effect.
Sundar: Teams rallied. Leaders supported me. And the financial aid offered proved invaluable.
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Team support
Leader support
And financial aid
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We show images of Sundar with his team members followed by images of him with leaders on a grey background and wavy Shell yellow pattern flowing through. We then show Sundar talking to the camera sitting on a chair.
Sundar: Today, I in turn reach out to my team by offering mentorship while also advocating for equal employment opportunities within the organisation.
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Mentorship
Equal employment opportunities
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We show two footages of Sundar mentoring his team in an office space followed by an image of him participating in DE&I initiatives with his colleagues.
Sundar: So far, I have mentored around 30 to 40 people fostering their growth.
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Fostering their growth
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We show Sundar speaking to the camera while sitting on a chair followed by a group picture with his team.
Sundar: As I reflect on my journey, my life has taken many unexpected turns, but I’m glad to be in a place that is committed to its people.
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A place committed to its people
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We show Sundar sitting in a chair with out-of-focus plant in the background speaking to the camera while we show a Picture-in-picture of Sundar reminiscing memories and then smiling.
Sundar: I embrace my life’s journey while working with experienced colleagues on the important challenges of energy transition.
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With experienced colleagues
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We show a footage of Sundar talking to the camera and also a picture-in-picture of him with his other experienced colleagues receiving a recognition. This is followed by a footage of a windmill farm.
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Power Your Progress
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We show Sundar having a professional discussion with his team with an out-of-focus office background. Over this, we show the pecten energy lines taking shape with Sundar’s face at the centre of it.
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Brand mnemonic played on strings.
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Find out more
shell.in/careers
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The small classic red and yellow Pecten transitions in to display at frame-center against a white background. Text is displayed below this and along the lower frame.
