The AXA Group, world leader in Financial Protection, supports and advises its individual and corporate customers at every life stage, providing them with the products and services that meet their insurance, personal protection, savings and wealth management needs.

Our areas of expertise are reflected in a range of products and services adapted to the needs of each client in three major business lines: property-casualty insurance, life & savings, and asset management.

In 2019, present in 57 countries, the 160,000 employees and distributors of AXA were committed to serving 108 million clients.

AXA Corporate Center’s main missions are to:

• Steer the entities in order to ensure the coherence of the strategies, the consistency of the commercial approaches as well as the optimization of the risks and results;
• Defining and coordinating Group policies, different transversal projects and standards, identifying and sharing best practices;
• Supporting the entities in order to help them to grow, to develop their offer, their management and steering standards as well as their risk management.

The head office of AXA Group (GIE AXA), based in La Défense Majunga, gathers the Group's corporate activities. It coordinates the various entities according to the Group's strategy and is responsible for managing international projects. The headquarters is composed with over 850 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities). 

The position will integrate AXA Group Risk Management team that brings together high level and multidisciplinary staff with engineers, actuaries and financials split between Paris, Zürich and Madrid.

The intern will focus on The P&C business, core to the AXA Group, operated in 20+ territories, with a wide mix of operating models, market shares and stages of development.

Main purpose:

Within the Group Risk management team, the main goal is to provide support AXA’s long-term strategy with respect to the Group Purpose: Act for human progress Protecting what matters. This includes steering the Group climate & biodiversity strategy, foster green business and Net Zero Insurance Alliance targets implementation.

Main activities:

Within GRM and with the Head of GRM P&C Climate & Sustainability and the Head of P&C underwriting and Business strategy for Climate and Sustainability, you will support the Integration of Climate and sustainability AXA ambition in the coordination of different projects:

• Contribute to develop and implement sustainability policies and guidelines
• Research on climate and biodiversity-related matters for insurance activities
• Contribute to develop products and solutions to insure Climate & ecological transition
• Contribute to implement Net Zero Insurance alliance targets

• Strong general knowledge of key climate-related recommendations, and experience or an interest in biodiversity-related subjects
• Knowledge of Climate, Environmental, Biodiversity & sustainability challenges
• Research on climate and biodiversity-related matters for insurance activities
• An interest in or prior experience working on climate and sustainability in financial services
• Strong project management skills, able to follow complex projects with many actors
• Very good writing skills in English and French
• Strong IT skills: Power Point and Word and Excel
• Synthesis spirit, able to catch main ideas and to organize and summarize information
• At ease in a multi-cultural working environment
• Strong team player, including capacity to work in transversal teams with other departments and external stakeholders
• Autonomy, ability to multi-task, prioritize and deliver on time
• Dynamism, reactivity, commitment

Master’s Degree with a background in environmental, sustainability