Job Description

What will your essential responsibilities include?

At AXA XL, HR is enabling leaders, colleagues, processes and policies to help our clients attract, engage, develop and retain the best talent globally.  Our goal is to provide an efficient, flexible and sustainable platform for the organization & its colleagues to grow & develop.

We do this through partnering with internal and external stakeholders around the globe to deliver high quality services in a scalable way with a focus on risk mitigation, cost management and people development while creating a collaborative work environment that fosters innovative, work-place pride, and makes AXA XL an employer of choice in the various regions around the world

Essential responsibilities of this role include the following:

• Serving as the primary HR point of contact for certain functions, provide day-to-day management and strategic oversight on a wide range of human capital issues that support our organizational strategy.
• Partnering and collaborating with business leaders and their respective teams while coaching, mentoring and contributing to the development of the team's agenda and human capital strategy.
• Partnering with compliance and business leaders to ensure regulatory compliance while promoting and supporting the execution of workplace diversity initiatives in all people process and activities.
• With guidance and oversight, advising local managers on all employee issues including contractual changes, disciplinary matters, and long term leave, to ensure a fair and consistent approach within parameters of legal obligations and corporate/local policies.
• Supporting managers in the sourcing, selection, and hiring of world-class talent by managing the headcount approval process, advising on resourcing strategies, and interviewing candidates.
• Contributing to talent management activities in conjunction with management and HR functional experts to ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
• Supporting managers and employees on the performance management process and on sustaining performance management activities throughout the year while using these activities to build and maintain knowledge of "key talent".
• Managing and/or contributing to local and/or global projects and strategic initiatives in support of the HRM network, as required.
• Bringing innovative and strategic human resources practices and programs to the company with an emphasis on, but not limited to: change management, compensation, succession planning, performance management, recruitment and retention, talent management, organizational design, compensation, benefits and employee relations.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• HR Experience: Minimum of 8-10 years of HR experience with a proven track record of collaboration & stakeholder management.  Demonstrated experience working in a highly matrixed organizational structure.
• Strong Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration and presentation skills.
• Leadership: Demonstrates intellectual courage/able to assert a point of view. Coaches, trains, appropriately manages expectations.
• Mental Agility: Innovative thinker, willing to turn ideas on their head. Bright and can handle complex situations.
• Strategic Thinking: Visualize what doesn't exist and know how to get there. Can invent, design and build.
• Industry Experience: Understanding of the insurance and reinsurance global markets and financial services a plus.

Required Candidate profile

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Diversity & Inclusion

We know that a diverse workforce and inclusive culture enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attracting and retaining the most diverse workforce possible, while creating a strong, inclusive culture where everyone is welcome and can contribute and reach their highest potential. 

• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index – 2017, 2018
• Signatory to the CEO Action for Diversity
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
• Twelve Colleague Resource Groups around the Globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family friendly leave benefits

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.