AXA Group Innovation Team is the new consolidated Group team under Group COO focused on accelerate AI and innovation delivery across AXA Group in support of the future 2024-2026 Group Strategy.

This unit is 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. Within this unit, the Venture Clienting team aims at accelerating the adoption and maximize the business impact and value creation of startup solutions and partners across AXA entities and thus find and scale opportunities in the form of tech assets to of the 3 pillars of the new AI and Innovation strategy of AXA validated in Q4 2023 to transform operation excellence (improve pricing, reduce loss ratio, reduce average claims cost, automate operation), boost value from unstructured data: augment customer service, unlock document intelligence, unleash imagery intelligence, adopt GenAI at scale, and enable growth through innovation: achieve customer intimacy and innovate to insure new and emerging risks.

The Venture Clienting Consultant will work within the Venture Clienting team in the AXA Group Operations innovation unit.

She/he will be in charge of the delivery of a few Venture Clienting innovation missions.

Key priorities include working with AXA entities to understand their needs with the support of a senior Venture Clienting expert, scout for startups to answer that need and present the results to the client entity.

It is an opportunity to train on the startup and especially insurtech ecosystem, to discover a new innovation model called Venture Clienting, ramp up on project management skills and understand the insurance business though the needs understanding.

VOTRE RÔLE ET VOS MISSIONS

1. Scout and evaluate InsurTech partners for their ability to solve AXA business problems at Group level,

2. Participate in identifying and explicating business and customer pain points with the AXA Next teams through existing approaches (eg. Business prototyping, workshops, best practices analysis),

3. Contribute to designing innovative and attractive business value leveraging the identified partners and considering the existing landscape and considering local operational, business and financial constraints,

​4. Working with entity stakeholders to define aspects of business plans (estimate budget on a stage-by-stage basis along with business impact), project timeline and tracking KPIs for project ROI.

VOTRE PROFIL

Technical Skills :

- Rigorous, good analytical skills (quantitative and qualitative), synthesis and ability to grasp trends is an absolute must,- Good mastery of Microsoft Office tools,- Experience in visual collaboration tool and remote working practice,- Basic knowledge of tech project delivery and insurance.

Behavioural Skills :

- Good communication skills,- Self-starter with proven ability to achieve be an effective member of high-functioning multi-cultural teams,- Excellent sense of self-organization,- High degree of initiative and energy, “can-do” attitude, flexibility, teamwork, attention to detail,- Ability to communicate complex ideas in a compelling way to a variety of audiences, including convince and challenge in a positive way,- Good team player at ease in a multi-cultural and expertise team,- Independent, self-motivated with a desire to work in a growth-oriented, start-up environment, yet adapting to global corporate dynamics,- Flexibility to travel (if / when situation allows for it),- Good interpersonal and multilingual communication skills. French and English in particular (German is a plus),- Excellent strong work ethic, impeccable integrity, judgment.

Experience required: - Bachelor’s degree in business / engineering / Digital Business,- A track record of training in consulting or finance.

This role will be placed in Paris at AXA Next offices with the need for remote working and collaboration including working from home