Strategic People Partner

AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence.

Job overview:

We’re looking for a Strategic People Partner to join our team at AXA where you’ll work closely with the Executive Committee and senior leaders to translate the company’s strategic vision into a comprehensive People Strategy that delivers measurable business results. As a trusted advisor, you’ll offer expert consultancy and in-depth specialist knowledge. Your responsibilities will include developing and executing strategic people plans at the functional level, implementing initiatives that promote a culture of growth, enhance employee engagement, and support business expansion. You’ll collaborate with the business to shape the talent, capability, leadership, and organisational structure agenda. Leveraging your HR expertise, you’ll coach and challenge leaders to think differently and improve their ways of working. The role aligns to the insurance division of our business and a car allowance of £5,200 is a part of the benefits package.

Key responsibilities:

• Understand and influence the business strategy and identify opportunities to increase alignment with the strategy, by helping business leaders identify, prioritise and build organisational knowledge skills and behaviours.
• Act as the UK Lead for broad People topics across AXA UK. Ensure progress is tracked and reported, and stakeholders are kept engaged and up to date at a UK transversal level. Build close and effective relationships with the Centres of Excellence (COE’s) to secure their expertise to deliver on the People Strategy.
• Design and deliver organisation development interventions to increase organisational efficiency and embed the desired culture and behaviour changes.
• Lead organisation design projects to develop operating models that deliver desired business outcomes within your function.
• Diagnose gaps between current and desired organisation performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organisation redesign, process change, coaching and training.
• Work with the COE’s to deploy appropriate talent solutions to fill identified skill gaps.
• Act as the advocate for leading the talent management and development plans for the business unit with a focus on building the capability of leaders, building skills and capabilities of the workforce, and ensuring succession plans are in place.
• Identify culture gaps that are a risk to delivery of the business strategy, and ensure a plan is in place to address the gaps and lead on any culture change required to address the culture gaps identified.

Work arrangements:

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events.

Your skills & experience:

• Strong communication, relationship management, stakeholder engagement, influencing and coaching skills.
• Ability to challenge key stakeholders and operate within a matrix environment.
• Experience of operating at a strategic level with the ability to navigate complexity and a strong strategic vision with the ability to drive strategic alignment.
• Strong financial understanding with the ability to analyse financial performance and identify people initiatives which drive commercial value to the business.
• Proven trusted advisor with a deep technical knowledge of HR.
• Ability to interrogate and analyse multiple data sources.
• Organisational and industry awareness with passion for bringing external thinking to the table.
• Experience of operating effectively in a complex and ambiguous environment and working collaboratively with Trades Union colleagues (AXA Insurance) and employee representative groups (AXA Health) influencing as appropriate.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

How to apply:

To apply, click on the ‘apply now’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to mel.ainscough@axa-insurance.co.uk.

We encourage you to apply for this opportunity as soon as possible, as we may close this advert earlier than the listed closing date.

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