Life Pricing Senior Manager - (M/F)

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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.

YOUR JOB AND DAILY MISSIONS:

Context & Team objectives

The newly created Global Chief Underwriting & Pricing Office (GUO) 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 and Product Strategy
• Technical Underwriting Guidance
• Pricing Models, Platforms and Analytics
• Risk Appetite deployment
• Ceded Reinsurance strategy design and purchasing

As part of the Group Chief Underwriting & Pricing Office you will join the Group Life, Savings and Health Pricing Team as Life Pricing Senior Manager. You will lead a team that ensures Market Leading Technical Pricing in Life Products (Protection and Savings).

Key Accountabilities

• Build the Pricing Policy and enforce its execution, including best practices and technical standards for governance.
• Engage closely with the Group Underwriting teams, Entity Pricing members, Reserving, Group Operations, and Finance to improve pricing accuracy and overall business performance.
• Carry out Pricing Technical Reviews assessing Pricing Strategy, Adequacy, Governance, processes, tools, and models’ calibration.
• Support portfolio management through metrics validations, regular reviews, and definition of consequent pricing actions.
• Work closely with Group Underwriting, Operations and Centers of Excellence to implement the Pricing Technical Excellence Plan.
• Address Regulatory Pricing Topics and develop actions plans to respond to legal and regulatory changes and ensure fairness.
• Build a strong Pricing Expert network with internal and external stakeholders to influence technical Pricing improvements globally and drive consistency in approach where appropriate.
• Stay abreast of and appropriately communicate knowledge of industry changes, specifically changes that affect pricing.
• Share expertise on product pricing methodologies, including pricing algorithms, pricing parameters, and advanced pricing techniques.

Dimensions

• Global scope: Life businesses & geographies.
• Responsible for the pricing remit for the AXA Group retaining matrix responsibility across Life lines of business.
• Management of the Life Pricing team.

Stakeholders:

This position will work closely with Heads of Pricing within the entities Reviews and transversal initiatives will be carried with teams in GIE and entities across Finance, Risk Management, Underwriting, Claims, etc.

KPIs for Success:

• Deliver on key accountabilities

Experience

• Fully Certified Actuary or equivalent;
• Extensive experience in Life pricing and Products within an AXA entity or external organization;
• Experience or studies in data science applied to insurance is a plus;
• 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 diverse teams is a plus.

Competencies

• Expertise on product pricing methodologies, including pricing algorithms, pricing parameters, and advanced pricing techniques;
• Strong verbal communications skills to gain buy-in to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external clients;
• Leadership: Influence and stakeholder management within matrixed complex and international set up while establishing partnerships;
• Strategic acumen: develop shared measures to improve decision making;
• Operational rigor and efficiency.

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’
• Strong Relationship builder
• Change agent
• Culturally sensitive to difference
• Patience & the ability to take time to learn

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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