Head of long tail underwriting commercial lines - (m / f)

Travailler pour AXA, c’est faire partie d’une grande famille et aussi l’opportunité de rejoindre un des leaders de l’assurance et de la gestion d’actifs dans le monde.

Nous aidons nos 94 millions de clients à traverser les petites et grandes difficultés de la vie. Chaque jour, nous agissons ensemble pour inventer la meilleure manière de les protéger et voulons donner à chacun les moyens de vivre une vie meilleure.

Un challenge qui donne le sourire et envie de se lever le matin !

Chez AXA, nous sommes persuadés que pour bien prendre soin de nos clients, nous devons commencer par bien prendre soin de nos collaborateurs. C’est pour cette raison que nous menons une politique RH engagée qui favorise la diversité, qui préserve l’équilibre vie privée-vie professionnelle et accélère le développement des compétences et des carrières.

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 as Head of Long Tail Underwriting – Commercial Lines. The newly created Group 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, 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

Dimensions:

The P&C business line is in the core of the organizational structure of the AXA Group and operates in 20+ territories, with a wide mix of operating models, market shares and stages of development. To maintain alignment within the organization, the Group Head of Long Tail Underwriting for P&C Commercial lines is responsible for:

* Ensuring a sustainable and profitable growth of AXA P&C commercial lines long tails activities worldwide, promoting technical excellence.
* Structuring the 1st line of defense organization and missions by developing, facilitating, and monitoring an effective P&C Commercial Lines Underwriting framework for Long Tail lines of business.

The P&C Group Head of Long Tail Commercial Lines is responsible for:

* Premises and operations liability
* Products and completed operations liability
* Motor
* Workers’ compensation and employers’ liability
* Management liability
* Professional liability
* Marine liability
* Aircraft liability
* Environmental liability

Group Casualty exposures amount to ~€15,000 Billion and ~€6 Billion GWP.

The P&C Group Head of Long Tail Commercial Lines is responsible for Cyber Insurance line of Business, both for retail and commercial client segments Group Cyber affirmative exposures amount to ~€2,000 billion.

Your job and daily missions:

* Define the Group Underwriting guidance for Long tail business and promote technical excellence via information and training to entities/region and professional families.
* Ensure the global supervision of the Long Tail lines and step-up entities’ expertise to contribute to business development through underwriting, supporting Group and entities’ growth ambition while maintaining strong profitability focus.
* Ensure that the development of products is sustainable and profitable via the Product Approval Process (PAP) and provide support to entities when needed.
* Control entities/region through regular technical audits (e.g., In-Depth Reviews, Technical Reviews, Preliminary Reviews).
* Drive the transformation of systemic risks management by improving the monitoring of the Group's exposures as part of the CLEAR project.
* Contribute to Mergers & Acquisitions operations related to P&C Commercial Lines business.

What you’ll need to succeed in this role:

* In-depth comprehensive knowledge and experience of P&C business operations including Underwriting, Pricing, Claims, Reserves and Reinsurance.
* Advanced knowledge in P&C actuarial and underwriting fields.
* Good understanding of processes to efficiently manage the decision to be taken in the different committees or boards.
* Solid interpersonal and organizational skills.
* Persuasive opinion to challenge and orient the P&C strategy and operations at Group or Entity level.

Technical and professional skills:

* Deep knowledge of various liability insurances, policy wordings, pricing and modeling approach.
* Strong management skills.
* Easy manipulation of complex financial figures connected to insurance activity monitoring.
* Reinsurance knowledge (treaties and facultative).
* Recognized Expertise in loss prevention and risk engineering.

Soft skills:

* Natural leadership.
* Able to develop structured argumentation to sell ideas and convince various types of stakeholders.
* Able to deliver high-level presentations in front of senior management or entities CEOs.
* Agility to work in a multifaceted P&C world.
* Capacity to motivate and lead transversal teams, building collaborative working relationships.
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