Strategic People Partner
About AXA:
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.
AXA UK Support Functions look after our three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure and expertise to make sure we can be there for our customers.
Job overview:
Shape the future of AXA UK as a Strategic People Partner to our executive team. We're looking for an experienced People leader who can operate as a trusted advisor to ExCom and senior leaders, translating business strategy into impactful people plans that drive measurable outcomes. This is a strategic, influential role for a seasoned HR professional who will coach and challenge senior stakeholders, bring fresh thinking, and help shape the evolution of our People model as the business continues to transform.
Key responsibilities:
• Understand and influence the business strategy and identify opportunities to increase alignment with the strategy, by helping business leaders identify, prioritize and build organizational knowledge skills and behaviour's.
• 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 COEs 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 organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization 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. Lead on any Culture change required to address the culture gaps identified.
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.
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:
• Significant experience influencing, coaching and constructively challenging ExCom, senior leadership teams and other senior stakeholders, with the communication style and credibility to shape decisions at the most senior levels.
• Extensive experience operating within large, complex matrix organisations, with the ability to balance functional, business unit and enterprise priorities while maintaining clarity, pace and alignment.
• Proven strategic HR leadership experience, including translating business strategy into medium- and long-term people plans that address talent, capability, organisation design, culture and leadership priorities.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience using financial performance, workforce metrics and business insight to identify people interventions that improve organisational effectiveness and create measurable commercial value.
• Deep technical HR expertise and senior advisory experience, with the judgement to guide leaders through complex employee relations, organisational change, workforce planning and people risk matters.
• Highly developed analytical capability, with experience interrogating multiple data sources, identifying trends and using insight to influence senior decision-making, prioritise action and measure the impact of people initiatives.
• Strong organisational and industry awareness, with the ability to bring external thinking, market insight and emerging HR practice to senior conversations and use this to challenge existing approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity, using sound judgement, resilience and adaptability to make effective decisions and maintain progress where direction, ownership or outcomes may be unclear.
• Experience partnering effectively with Trade Union colleagues and employee representative groups on sensitive or complex people matters, building constructive relationships and influencing pragmatic, balanced outcomes.
• Skilled at managing competing senior stakeholder needs across a matrix organisation, creating alignment, resolving tension and keeping strategic people priorities moving at pace.
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 suzie.elliott@axa-uk.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.