Regulatory Affairs Manager

São Paulo, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Corporate Relations

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

February 5, 2026

Business Unit:

Trading and Supply

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The Regulatory Affairs Manager’s primary responsibilities are to support Shell Energy Brasil - SEB’s power and gas trading and origination businesses growth through external advocacy for competitive markets, communicating regulation changes, impacts to commercial teams, offering insights and advice to facilitate commercial transactions within existing regulations and supporting commercial compliance obligations:

• Plan and coordinate SEB’ regulatory initiatives in power markets, providing support, information and advice that are aligned with commercial priorities among trading and origination.

• Monitor state and federal developments on legislation and regulation related to power that may affect SEB’s business opportunity space, offering adequate advice.

• Complement SEB’s commercial strategies, advocating positions in proceedings at the relevant government agencies, i.e., MME, ANEEL, EPE, ONS, CCEE.

• Serve as the Regulatory Affairs technical and commercial advisor for SEB in new business development opportunities, assessing commercial impacts and opportunities. Work fully aligned with the trading desk, origination business partners supporting commercial deals and opportunities accretive for the book.

• Support Shell’s advocacy efforts and build consensus in trade associations such as ABRACEEL, ABRAGET, ABSOLAR and IBP. 

• Ensure Shell maintains its license to operate by maintaining the culture of compliance related to relevant regulations.

• Support SEB’s power growth initiatives in the wider southern cone, including but not limited to advising on cross border transactions with Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Bolivia.

• Support the Commercial and Structure/Fundamental groups to clearly scope and define the opportunities, provide risk management and value creation through regulatory intelligence.

• Anticipate regulatory moves by keeping a legitime and sustainable government network.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• Bachelor’s degree required (Business or equivalent preferred)

• Minimum of 10 years industry experience

• Must have deep technical understanding of the power market regulation in Brazil.

• Must have deep understanding about price formation in the Brazilian power market and how different regulatory discussion can change/impact the price formation and trading moves

• Demonstrating knowledge of the natural gas market (including domestic gas, LNG and RNG) and understanding the interdependencies between gas and power markets to provide holistic advice and advocacy would be considered a plus.

• Ability to build and foster relationships across various internal and external stakeholders.

• Technical and/or commercial understanding of retail and wholesale gas, power and carbon products

• Strong reading comprehension, writing abilities and presentation skills

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.

• 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.

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shell’s strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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