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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 Underwriting Office, a newly created department to steer the performance of our insurance portfolio and support our reinforced focus on technical excellence. The platform will also contribute to define our global ambition and approach to new emerging risks related to the energy transition and cyber in the coming years.

Within this Department, you will be part of the team Group CUO Operations & Transformation, a newly created strategic function (& trusted partner) within AXA GUO and AXA GIE; enabling the GUO Organisation, through partnership, collaboration, support and a continuous improvement / simplification mindset.

Our goal is to empower and simplify our organization, improve engagement across the AXA Group (GIE), underwriting community & create a meaningful, measurable impact. We do this by consistently collaborating with key stakeholders across AXA GIE functions, GUO and entities to drive the strategic priorities, with a disciplined approach, change management, clear communication and investing in our key strategic priorities.

YOUR JOB AND DAILY MISSIONS:

Job purpose

The job purpose is to create, and manage the GUO budget to ensure we invest in our Technical Excellence strategy and supporting on operational and ad-hoc topics and priorities.

Support the broader GUO Transformation & Operations Team on operational & administrative tasks.

Dimensions

• GUO teams (around 180+ permanent staff in France & Spain)
• GIE
• AXA entities

Context & Major Challenges

The newly created Global Chief Underwriting Office is 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.

The CUO Transformation & Operations team, under the leadership of the Head of Group CUO Transformation & Operations, is responsible for driving the strategy of CUO & its execution at all levels.

Key Accountabilities

You will lead on topics and provide support to the GUO Head of Operations and Engagement, working closely with all members the Group Transformation & Operations Team, GUO team, across GIE, entities as necessary and facilitate teamwork across department(s).

This role will act as a key facilitator to address requests and expectations of internal and external stakeholders.

The role will also drive high level projects and coordinates complex and confidential information to facilitate decision making. This role therefore requires you to maintain strict confidentiality regarding sensitive business and employee information.

You will be accountable for:

GUO Budget 

• Accountable for the AXA GUO Budget. Taking a strategic view of the GUO financial plan, to ensure that we are looking 12 / 24 months in advance as part of our strategic planning to support investment in or Technical Excellence Plan. Specific accountabilities include (but not exhaustive): 
  • Creation of a GUO Financial / Budget process to support the creation and management of GUO Budget. And Cost Centre owners (as applicable)
  • Working with the GUO LT to set the budget, based on priorities and ensuring investment in to key strategic priorities.
  • Budget submission, using planning tool. Ensure the planning / budget and reforecast timelines are understood and achieved.
  • Manage accruals for the GUO, and ensure they are submitted within the overall AXA Group timeframe
  • Regular (monthly) and ad-hoc reporting to the GUO LT on actuals vs budget
  • Actively look to achieve savings, through analysis, to support reinvestment into GUO Technical Excellence priorities.
  • Tracking, monitoring, and reporting of savings
  • Partnering with AXA CFO reporting Team to ensure budget is understood.
  • Manage ad-hoc questions and topics.

Support to Head of GUO Transformation & Operations

In addition, you will support the GUO Head of Operations and Engagement, on providing administrative support to the GUO Transformation & Operations function, as follows.

• • Lead meetings and workshops with careful planning and coordination and supporting the sequencing and preparation of meetings with key internal stakeholders and others key external stakeholders, including entities. Ensuring agenda, clear outcomes, and minutes, identify participants, track deliverables/outcomes. This may include fostering collaboration and alignment across the Group’s top management and their direct reports.
  • Steering strategic projects and initiatives from beginning to completion, with your roles / functions scope
  • Complete special projects and initiatives with oversight and support
  • Identify and address issues with operational processes and procedures
  • Prepare and modify documents including correspondence, reports, drafts, memos powerpoints, and emails
  • Establish and leverage a strong network of relationships with internal and external stakeholders to develop and deliver coordinated views around GUO, Transformation & Operations Management topics etc
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional responsibilities could include: 

• AXA GUO Procurement and Outsourced services - Supporting the GUO Head of Operations and Engagement, with the GUO Procurement and outsourced services as necessary and ensuring that our strategic roadmap supports GUO Technical Excellence ambitions and monitoring to ensure we achieve them.
• Plus additional tasks as required from time to time.

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.

Main competencies and experience

Competencies

• Demonstrates the ability to drive change in a matrix & international environment
• Shows the ability to understand a simplify key messages and communications
• Can develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Has the ability to provide guidance and seek input from others as needed to achieve the best result possible
• Can work and collaborate with a virtual team, across multiple diverse geographies and cultures
• Has excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
• Has excellent financial and analytical skills
• Knows how to use judgment to identify and solve day to day problems in straightforward situations
• Demonstrates the ability to interrogate reports & surveys and identify trends & provide insights to leadership
• Has knowledge of procurement and budget and business processes, preferably at AXA

Behaviours

• Self aware
• Collaborative
• Builds trust
• Good listening skills to build consensus
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong relationship builder
• 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
• Change agent
• Culturally sensitive to difference
• Patience & the ability to take time to learn

Languages

• Fluent French
• Fluent English
• Spanish is a plus

Experience

• Experience in helping establish & execute a strategy at regional/global level, preferably involving multiple organizations from different countries
• Proven experience interacting with Senior leaders and evolving in matrixed environments
• Experience in managing BU budget (5+ years),
• Experience in procurement strategy (outsourcing, setting up managed services, offshoring)
• Experience in using budget & reporting tools (Anaplan, PowerBI) will be a plus