Personal Development for Leaders in MSc Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Personal Development for Leaders PSLE7006
Portfoliofor
MSc Procurement and Supply Chain Management
FOR SUBMISSION
Note: This portfolio incorporates the review of your Occupation, Profession and Organisation (if
applicable). It encourages the audit of transferable skills and mapping across your industry competencies.
Name
Student Number
Indicate with a  in the appropriate box
Are you currently employed? Yes No
If yes, what is your job title? Maintenance Supervisor, Royal Dutch Shell, UK.
Your Programme Structure
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PG Cert
phase
credits
Semester How acquired/chosen module
20 Personal Development for Leaders (Core)
20 Global Supply Chain Management(Core)
20 Financial Management for Purchasers (Core)
PG Dip
phase
credits
Semester How acquired/chosen module
20 Strategic Procurement Management (Core)
20 Research Skills and Consultancy Planning (Core)
20 Legal and Contracting Arrangements in Purchasing (Core)
Masters
phase
credits
Semester The following modules are all elective choices
Option 1
20 Advanced Logistics and Supply Chain Systems
20 Business Analysis and Project Management
20 Business Strategy and Transportation Technologies
Resourcing and Assessing Talent
Option 2
40 Consultancy Project
40 Dissertation
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Section 2: Rationale and Academic Coherence
1. Programme aim
The primary aim of this program is to develop the foundation of the future sustained professional development ventures of the
student, deriving resources from the postgraduate study of the student. By synthesising aims and objectives for personal as well as
career development, I will attempt to set personal learning outcomes for my development plan. While conducting this program, I
also aim to identify as well as nurture my career goals as an employee of the downstream oil and gas sector, based on personal
development of knowledge, professional interests as well as industrial skills gained. By developing a sound understanding of
theory as well as practice related to WBL, this program will allow me to capitulate on continuing provisional development,
thereby developing scope of creating new knowledge as well as practices.
2. Programme learning outcomes. Used numbered bullets – no more than 10.
On completion of my programme I will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of my professional designation including my job roles as well as
responsibilities.
2. I will be able to apprehend how my job role will impact the organisation in context to the structure, interactions, origin as
well as the outside drivers along with critical understanding and demonstration of the current trends as well as issues.
3. Explore as well as evaluate the critical models for professional development by referring to extensive information related
to current practice
4. Demonstrate research work related with large range of professionals as well as disciplines.
5. Demonstrate strategies of application of the models and other frameworks for personal as well as organisational
development needs.
6. Demonstrate ability of individual learning that is necessary for providing self-direction of continued professional
development.
7. Demonstrate originality of effort in tackling as well as solving problems.
8. Able to act autonomously for planning as well as implementation of tasks at a professional or at an equivalent level.
9. Incorporate a wide range of activities for self development by conducting wide range of intensive programs through
lectures, tutorials as well as workshops.
10. Exhibit the capability of conducting structured activities like assessment preparation as well as self directed study.
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3. Review of (preferred) occupation, profession, organisation and the industry it sits within.
I am occupied in the downstream oil and gas sector, which is the most varied part in the oil and gas process of the whole
petroleum industry. The primary works in the downstream oil and gas sector involves crude oil refining as well as processing,
purification of natural gas, product distribution, product retail, marketing, through to sales and other allied activities. The
deliverables of this industrial sector also includes manufacturing petrochemicals as well as plastics.
The crude oil products derived or manufactured for the downstream stage includes liquefied petroleum gas, antifreeze
pharmaceuticals, diesel oil, petrol, LPG, fertilisers as well as cosmetics.
The downstream sector is responsible for providing closest connection with the everyday consumers. This implies that the job
roles in this sector are incredibly sought after as well as diverse. In this case, I should consider the OCEAN model in order to tally
compatibility with my current job roles at the organisation. In this regard, it deserves mention that since there have been exhibiting
traits of openness conscientiousness, I feel that I am most empowered to deal with job roles like retail, product marketing and
dealing with dynamic customer base.
Other than being a lucrative area for working, the downstream oil and gas sector of the petroleum industry has the most lucrative
opportunities of personal development as an employee also. My expected average salary that I will be getting after working for a
year is £50000 per annum and the annual hike in this sector is also standard.
Other benefits that I will be able to enjoy working in this sector are flexible working hours, opportunity to travel to various global
locations and fore-mostly develop a dedicated set of skills that would highly in demand among the relevant industries. I hope that
for the individuals who are looking for a career with long term and sustainable growth, along with excellent work environment
and standard pay scale, there can rarely be a better choice compared to the downstream oil and gas sector.
I have been involved in the position of Maintenance Supervisor with The Royal Dutch Shell, UK. My job role involves a set of
significant activities. I am responsible for ensuring safety as well as efficiently maintain a wide range of equipment as well as
machinery. I am also liable for leading a team of specialists in the fields of electrical and mechanical engineers along with the
team of wielders. The participative style of working that I have manifested, helps me to get along with such kinds of working
styles. I have to work with processing equipments in oil processing plant. I am also in charge of a conveyer system. My liabilities
also include management of preventive management schedules as well as planned shutdowns. I have to ensure that the ad hoc
repairs are properly executed for keeping the equipments of the facility run smooth and safely. I feel that I have all necessary
qualities as well as attitude for dealing with the required stakeholders.The main set of my responsibilities include planning and
organisation of on-site as well as off-site work, task distribution among the work groups, and overseeing progress of the tasks.
Lastly, I also work with the senior management team and with other supervisors for accomplishing other work goals like team
building, motivating individual employees as well as solving problems for achieving better results.
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The company is one of the leading providers of services in the downstream oil and gas sector of UK. The company have 500
facilities all over UK with their head office in Hague, Netherlands, along with 17 lab facilities also.
SWOT Analysis of Royal Dutch Shell
Strengths
One of the major strengths of the company, where I work, Royal Dutch Shell, UK is their vertically integrated operations. The
operations of my company are spread across three international markets of North America, Europe and Asia. The vertically
integrated growth of our company is ensured by merger and acquisition of the other companies.
Our company serves in three of the major markets of downstream oil sector, namely North America, Asia as well as Europe. IN
the downstream sector, our organisation operates in partnership for the sectors of refining and marketing. For evidence, in the year
1998, we had entered in to a partnership with the Saudi Aramco for delivering refined petroleum in the Asian countries under the
joint venture named Motiva Enterprises. This was a limited liability partnership. This shows that in our downstream sector,
companies can indulge in to joint venturing with limited business risks. The revenue accumulated in the joint venture was worth
$24 billion fiscal policy. We also have some of the largest oil refineries in the North America with capacity of 740,000 barrel
equivalent of oil every day (Shell.com 2019). This helped to enhance the market size and market authority of the company in
America. In turn, it entrusted a need for greater employee base and the salary structure of the executive and managerial employees
like us were also increased. As i have experienced in my service tenure, the business growth of our company is based up on the
two themes of deep water exploration in the upstream sector and the integrated gas supply in the downstream sector. About 15%
of the global demand for energy is met by our downstream sector.
Another major strength of the Royal Dutch Shell is their strong exploration capability. The upstream ventures of our company saw
a dramatic increase in the year 2014, when the business value of the upstream sector rose by 800 million. As an impact the
valuation of the business of the downstream sector also increased by 0.9 billion. This emphasised a subtle requirement for
increasing the business volume of the downstream sector and the need for further employment also. This called for a recruitment
drive and this is the time that I got the opportunity of serving the company (Shell.com 2019).
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