Portfolio Management Actuary (Work Location: Madrid)

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Job description

Whatever their stage of life, we provide over 108 million customers with the products and services they need to progress. From insurance to personal protection, and savings to wealth management, no matter the need we’re always there for them. And we’re always there for our employees. In 50 countries, we work hard to inspire pride and a sense of belonging in our people. To provide opportunities that challenge them, inspire them, and reward them. And to create a culture that’s open, supportive, and empowering. Because we know that’s the real secret to success – and the best way for us to keep building a better world for both our customers and the talented people who put them first.

YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, to ensure the coordination and monitoring of the Group's global strategy, the application of its standards, the consistency of commercial approaches and the sharing of best practices. The headquarters gathers approximately 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities), which makes it a rich and stimulating place to work.

Within the Group, you will join the Group Chief Underwriting Office as Portfolio Management Actuary.

 YOUR JOB AND DAILY MISSIONS:

Context & Major Challenges

The newly created Global Chief Underwriting Office will be accountable for establishing, enabling, and driving profit and growth through Product Underwriting Strategy, Portfolio Design and Technical Underwriting Excellence in partnership with the AXA Entities, for both Commercial and Retail, through:

  • Portfolio Design Steering
  • Underwriting Product Strategy and Profitability Measurement
  • Technical Underwriting Guidance
  • Pricing Models, Platforms and Analytics
  • Risk Appetite deployment
  • Ceded Reinsurance strategy design and purchasing As part of the Global Chief Underwriting Office you will be an integral part of the Group Pricing Team partnering directly with underwriting and executive management as we look to develop and deliver our strategic objectives.

Key Accountabilities

  • Act as a key contributor to embed a common Portfolio Management Process (PMP) across AXA to drive technical excellence and purposeful portfolio creation through product strategy and pricing performance KPIs
  • Collaborate across functions to execute on the PMP "North Star" incorporating Cycle Management and engage across all entities introducing the concept
  • Collaborate across functions to define both key Metrics that will drive the Optimization Process and monitoring metrics to incorporate into the PMP Reporting
  • For Pricing Metrics, detailing clear definitions with examples to drive consistency across all entities
  • Identify the PMP components that exist in entities today and where there are material gaps in order to develop a short term (Tactical) PMP roadmap
  • Develop and share existing standard templates to support the full PMP process in the short term
  • Work closely with Group Underwriting, Group Tech, Data and Operations and the Entities to develop and implement Portfolio Management capabilities globally including the development of market-leading business intelligence and portfolio management dashboards to support data driven decision making
  • Set new minimum PMP standards for entities to achieve on an annual basis
  • Partner with Group Risk Management to support entities in granular allocation of capital components at sub portfolio/account level

Dimensions

  • Global scope: full remit (across all businesses & geographies).

Stakeholders:

CFOs, Head of Reserving and Head of Pricing within the entities

KPIs for Success:

  • Measure of the partnership with the entities
  • Direct influence on the strategy, portfolio development and technical performance of the entities
  • Deliver on building the analytic and technology culture of the entire organization
  • Carry the strategic plan

Vous rejoignez une entreprise :

-    Responsable, vis-à-vis des personnes, y compris ses employés et ses clients, et de la planète. -    Aux valeurs fortes-    Qui encourage la mobilité interne, et la formation de ses employés-    Qui vous offre de nombreux avantages (en savoir plus ici : Reward & Benefits - french | AXA Group)-    Flexible, qui permet le travail hybride, au bureau et à la maison.

Les informations fournies par les candidat(e)s seront traitées de manière strictement confidentielle et utilisées uniquement à des fins de recrutement.


Preferred experience

Main competencies and experience

Competencies 

  • Boundaryless leadership and Strategic acumen: develop shared outcomes and measures, to improve clarity of decision making and leveraging data to make decisions.
  • Influence and stakeholder Management within matrixed complex and international set up while establishing partnerships.
  • Change Leader builds strong partnerships and effectively influence stakeholders; clearly communicates and drives alignments on shared outcomes; extreme ownership on outcomes with strategic and operational rigor.
  • Proven experience within insurance pricing and with core actuarial and data science concepts.
  • Strong technical aptitude with experience programming in Python/R, PowerBI and SQL.
  • Strong ability to work in a team. Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with teams having varying backgrounds/skillsets (Tech, Data, Operations, Actuarial, UW)
  • Committed, self-organized, with a strong attention to detail

Behaviours

  • Self-aware
  • Collaborative
  • Builds trust
  • Good listening skills to build consensus
  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Flexible & willing to say ‘I don’t know, let me find the answer’
  • Humble enough to listen to others who have the expertise and build relationships
  • Strong Relationship builder
  • Change agent
  • Culturally sensitive to difference
  • Patience & the ability to take time to learn

Experience 

  • Fully Certified Actuary
  • Proven Portfolio Management experience
  • Ability to directly influence strategy and portfolio management, as well as setting the technical culture.
  • Proven experience interacting with Senior leaders and evolving in matrixed environments.
  • Experience in driving change and building relationships.
  • Proven experience in leading multicultural and multifaced geographically spread teams.

Language

  • Fluent English

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