The Business Innovation Center is a newly created unit at the core of the new mandate of AXA Next in charge of delivering impactful innovation projects together with AXA’s operating companies with the ambition to scale up existing transformative business assets across the company. We partner with AXA entities to deliver Core Business Reinvention and New Business Asset Creation. The key objective of the mission is to help maximize the replication of innovation projects across several AXA entities and monitor their global business impact.   

In this context, your main challenges as Innovation Scaling manager will be to support innovation across multiple countries requires in itself to combine deep understanding of entities context and priorities as well as emerging capabilities and trends. Scaling innovation across various markets with the key objective of driving short-term Business Impact requires alignment of key decision makers on strategic priorities. Such alignment is led through leadership and senior key stakeholder engagement to build buy-in and trust from local leaders. The diversity of entities’ capabilities and market conditions requires agility, pragmatism and strong result orientation. Additionally, the growing expectation of short ‘return on investment’ of Innovation for AXA Business requires to set up new monitoring mechanisms across the group.

Your main missions will be the following:

1. Help drive the transversal scaling programs across Innovation Domains

• Contribute on the transversal portfolio definition, roadmap consolidation and benefits realization across the Business Innovation Domains
• Help organize and support the deployment of cross-functional programs within the BIC (in particular, support the project to develop value proposition and scaling projects of the BIC)
• Help organize and lead transversal working groups across Business innovation Domains

2. Drive studies and ad hoc missions

• Carry out framing, specific strategic level studies or organizational studies, at the request of the head of Innovation Scaling.
• Contribute on writing summary reports to help the BIC in decision-making.
• Propose action plans to be carried out within its scope of intervention.
• Produce dashboards for monitoring action plans, participate in the definition of indicators, and ensure their follow-up.

3. Support the day-to-day operation of the head of Innovation Scaling

• Contribute to the promotion of the corporate culture of the Business Innovation Center.
• Contribute to create a dynamic with the other entities and AXA Next business units.
• Contribute to streamline and optimize operations with the other entities and AXA Next business units.

Experience required:

• Experience in having worked on both business and Group functions at AXA or in a key player in the industry
• A track record of having defined and implemented innovative business solutions
• Experience in implementing complex and transformative programs, involving extensive change management and measurement of success

Skills and experience required

• Broad functional and technical skills on Insurance obtained through experience in high value-added positions within the industry competitors.
• Ability to analyse and synthesise data.
• Communication and interpersonal skills outside of any hierarchy
• Mastery of office tools (MS-Office suite) and ability to write clearly and concisely (writing a summary presentation at general management level and writing a document for management).
• Mastery of project management (conduct of interviews, facilitation of workshops, planning of the steering committee, monitoring of a budget, milestones) and management by influence.
• Knowledge in change management techniques as part of transformation programs.

Technical skills

• Good understanding of the company, the BIC and its projects.
• Ability to manage and challenge service providers, outsourcing companies.
• Rigor and method for optimally organizing projects.
• Good level of English.

Soft Skills

• Leadership: Proven ability to articulate an inspiring vision and create a positive culture, with high morale and good performance.
• Influence: the ability to gain buy-in from others on sensitive topics, which they may not have initially been inclined to accept, by securing their agreement and developing sustained relationships.
• Confidence and Initiative: Anticipates difficult situations, manages them, questions herself, learns from her mistakes by herself and by listening to others feedback.
• Strong capacity for work and resistance to pressure in the event of a crisis.
• Sense of customer / user service - Listening and dialogue to understand the needs and problems encountered by users.
• Excellent strong work ethic, impeccable integrity, judgment.

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