Apprenticeship - Business & Transformation Analyst

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The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, in order 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 of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, in order 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.

AXA is built around diversity and unity, which is why we are committed to promoting collective success through inclusion.

Global Enterprise Management (GEM) is a new 3 years-old unit, reporting directly to the CEO office of the AXA Group. Fully focused on AXA most valued Global Business Partners, its mission is to build, expand and deliver revenue growth, high retention, and client advocacy in the Business-to-Business (B2B) space. This includes the development of B2B2Business, B2B2Customer, B2B2Employee across all AXA assets and capabilities. The operating model relies on a single point of contact per account leveraging central, regional, and local teams in a unified way and collaborating with all entities to diversify and deepen our GEMs portfolio for One AXA.

Within GEM, the Business & Transformation apprentice will support the Business Operations & Strategy Transformation Manager on 3 major dimensions:

1. Support the 2023 Global Brokers initiative with the newly appoint Global Head of Brokers:
   • Build 360° view of AXA’s business relationship with its Top Global Insurance Brokers (starting in 2023 with 2 main Brokers as a pilot);
   • Monitor our commercial performance as ONE AXA, considering Brokers as key partners;
   • Share key insights on GEM’s global brokers (business insights, commercial strategy, internal news) to AXA Executive and GEM’s Commercial leaders.
2. Survey competitors with available tools (Media reports, LinkedIn, press aggregators...) to feed the GEM community with valuable insights;
3. Monthly and also ad-hoc analysis of Missed-Declined-Lost business opportunities, being able to investigate root causes of these data to provide learnings and potential improvement area for the commercial performance of GEM sales team.

For all of these topics, being synthetic, being curious, being able to dig/double check info is essential.

Key accountabilities:

• Collecting, updating, and analysing of AXA and GEM partners GWP with Global Brokers across the Group (for all AXA operating companies and for all lines of business).
• Building reporting and dashboards (Excel, PPTX) for our Management Committee and other high level executives.
• Building, analysing and sharing key business insights.
• Being able to handle data and also qualitative reports/benchmarks/information that may be available on external sources (Annual reports, press reports, LinkedIn posts, etc.).
• Contributing to sectorial analysis of GEM’s business with our Global Brokers, both on data and qualitative insights (such as organization, strategy & offers).
• Assisting with project management for selected projects and contributing on other transversal missions when necessary.

The apprentice will work closely with the Business Operations & Strategy team and will collaborate with many stakeholders within AXA Group:

• In the Global Enterprise Management team:
  • Deal steering Leader
  • Commercial Account leaders
  • Regional Leaders
• In local entities:
  • Account managers
  • Business analysts
• In Group / Markets departments:
  • Risk Management
  • Operations: Technology, Data, Transformation and Innovation
  • Finance

Background and experience:

• Student in Business or equivalent;
• Experience working in a multicultural environment and managing relationships with various stakeholders;
• Knowledge of the insurance business would be a plus, but not mandatory.

Technical Skills & Competencies:

• Good proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint;
• Knowledge of CRM/Salesforce is a plus, but not mandatory;
• Ability to challenge data quality and spot inconsistency;
• Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities;
• Rigorous: ability to provide synthetic reporting for the top management;
• Fluent in English/French mandatory, oral and written.

Personal skills & capabilities:

• Strong communications skills, able to present complex ideas clearly and concisely, and able to persuade and obtain the buy-in of a diverse and multicultural audience;
• Team player, who can break the silos with tact and diplomacy and is able to ask for help and share knowledge;
• Good interpersonal relationship influencing;
• Results, customer and service-oriented mindset;
• Strong sense of organization;
• Enjoys multi-cultural environments.

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life?

Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

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.

The information provided by applicants will be treated as strictly confidential and used for recruitment purposes only.