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). 

AXA Research Fund

Within the AXA Group Communication, Brand and Sustainability Department, the AXA Research Fund is a scientific philanthropy initiative of the AXA Group that aims to support researchers in the areas of health, environment and socio-economics.

Since 2008, the AXA Research Fund has supported over 650 research projects led by researchers in over 300 universities in 36 countries. The missions of the AXA Fund are to finance innovative research projects to inform public decision-makers while making research accessible to the greatest number of people.

The team works closely with the Group Foresight team which aims to better understand the future of society and insurance.

Main activities:

1) Development of a digital tool

Formalize analysis and strategic recommendations to strengthen the link between researchers of the AXA Research Fund community and the business within AXA.

• First, provide detailed analysis of the AXA Research Fund portfolio using specific keywords/metrics – creation of the “AXA Research Fund thesaurus” which will be used to qualify each project.
• Then, support the team in the development of a new visualization digital tool (dashboards, data visualization …) use to communicate data and ideas to the right stakeholders – done in collaboration with a dedicated agency.

2) AXA Research Fund Operations 

• Support AXA thought leadership in producing strategic notes on key research and societal topics related to climate & environment, socioeconomics and health

• Help organizing the upcoming research projects selection (AXA Chairs, AXA Awards to reward top-tier scientists) and any other types of projects

• Support the team in the day-to-day relationship with funded researchers

• Master or gap students in engineering or business school and IEP with a scientific background.
• Academic background in sciences, social science, environment with a specialization in marketing/communications or innovation would be a plus
• Excellent command of English both written and oral
• Autonomous and disciplined with good organizational skills and high analytical skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and interest in cross-disciplinary research subjects such as environmental, health and socio-economics issues
• Result-oriented: you are not afraid to tackle challenges and solve problems thanks to creative solutions
• Good command of PowerPoint and Excel. A plus would be having knowledge of tools related to data visualization such as Power BI or Tableau (not mandatory)
• First long-term internship experience is a plus