Portfolio Management Expert - (M/F) - Paris Or Madrid

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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 Chief Underwriting Office as Portfolio Management Expert.

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 CUO 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 contributer to embed a common Portfolio Management Process 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 UW, TDO 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

• 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

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, SQL, and Excel/VBA.
• Strong ability to work in a team. Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with teams having varying backgrounds/skillsets (TDO, 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

Why AXA ? Every day, we work together for human progress by protecting what matters. A mission that puts a smile on your face and makes you want to get up in the morning !

One of the world's leading insurers in the protection of property, people and assets, AXA is 145,000 employees and contributors who are committed to our customers on a daily basis, 51 countries in which we distribute our products and services and more than 90 million customers who place their trust in us worldwide.  As a responsible corporate citizen, AXA is committed to social and environmental causes on a daily basis. We are committed to an inclusive policy that recognizes and values individual differences. Do these ambitions speak to you ? Then come and change the world with us !

The headquarters of the AXA Group is based in Paris - La Défense (Majunga Tower) and brings together the Group's corporate activities. It is distinguished by its strong international culture.

You will join:

• A responsible company, towards people, including its employees and customers, and towards the planet 
• A company with strong values
• A company promoting internal mobility and the training of its employees
• A company offering many benefits (learn more here: Reward & Benefits | AXA Group)
• A flexible company, allowing hybrid work, in the office and from home.

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