Strategy Director, Americas

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Coordination of long-term Americas BU corporate strategy, in line with overall AXA XL and AXA Group strategic priorities, including strategy design, delivery, and accountability through identified KPIs
• BU-led M&A activity, in coordination with Head of AXA XL Strategy and Corporate Development
• Spearhead business cases and lead delivery of proofs of concept for BU-identified growth opportunities, new products, and investment opportunities
• Liaise between BU and AXA Group, to support growth and cooperation with other Group entities and strategic investments (i.e., telematics)
• Maintain regular cadence with AXA XL and AXA Group Strategy & Corporate Development teams
• Work closely with AXA XL Head of Strategic Research to analyze regional/global market and competitor trends for opportunities and threats
• Coordinate annual long-term BU Strategy documents, annual goal setting and operational plans
• Present relevant strategic updates to local legal entity Boards
• Complete SCALA quality control evaluations (strategic control monitoring and updating)
• Accountability for delivering the Climate & Sustainability strategy of Americas BU

You will report to the CEO, Americas.

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

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Solution oriented with a track record of being influential in transversal teams and driving transformation and change
• Works to achieve results, sets high standards for self and others, and acts with a sense of urgency
• Demonstrates an ability to explore positions and produce alternatives that result in outcomes acceptable to all stakeholders
• Experience of managing relationships through impact and influencing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with different internal departments and external partners
• Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written
• Sound understanding and use of financial planning, analysis and reporting approaches
• Ability to understand complex issues and distill into analysis appropriate for C-suite level review

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Project management and benefits tracking
• Creating a culture of high performance and team development
• Senior stakeholder management
• Large scale change delivery

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 comprehensive 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.

Learn more at axaxl.com

Inclusion & Diversity

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another - and our business - to move forward and succeed.

Our enterprise I&D mission is to become the most inspiring company to work for. We're achieving this through our three areas of focus:

• Drive an Inclusive Culture-create a global workplace that works for everyone, with a culture that values all individuals, backgrounds and ideas, and where every colleague feels safe, valued and respected.
• Diversify Our Workforce-increase the representation of women in leadership, achieving 50% by 2023, and focus on underrepresented populations by region, positioning AXA XL as an employer of choice for all talent.
• Support Our Marketplace & Communities-support our communities and visibly and thoughtfully champion equity around the globe.

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Corporate Responsibility

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters.".

• Climate: We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We're developing water resilience where it is - and will be - needed most.
• Financial resilience: We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action:We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.

For more information, please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.