This position involves leading projects from start to finish, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closing. Key responsibilities include defining project scope, schedule, resources, budget, and risks; driving project execution and accountability; and serving as the main communication point for updates and escalations. The role requires facilitating meetings, preparing reports for senior leadership, ensuring compliance with AXA XL’s governance standards, and managing risks and issues. It also includes tracking financial performance, coordinating resources, partnering with vendors, and identifying process improvements. Additionally, the position involves mentoring junior team members and supporting change management initiatives.
What you’ll be doingWhat will your essential responsibilities include?
- Lead projects from initiation through closure, including planning, execution, monitoring and reporting.
- Define scope, schedule, resource plan, budget, risks, and deliverables in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders.
- Drive execution of project plans and ensure accountability across project team members.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project communications, updates, and escalations.
- Facilitate status meetings, steering committee discussions, alignment sessions.
- Prepare and deliver clear and concise project updates and dashboard for senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with AXA XL’s governance framework including PSR reviews, RAG status updates, Planview entries, and project documentation.
- Actively manage project risks and issues, developing mitigation plans and facilitating resolution.
- Lead gate review and quality checks to ensure delivery is aligned with organizational expectations.
- Track budget, forecast changes, and monitor financial performance.
- Ensure appropriate resource allocation and availability throughout the project lifecycle.
- Partner with vendor teams and third-party partners where applicable.
- Identify opportunities to improve project delivery methods and adopt best practices.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and mentor junior team members when appropriate.
- Support organizational change management efforts in alignment with project goals.
You will report to Head of Global Technology Project Management.What you’ll bringWe’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Required Skills And Abilities
- Relevant years of hands-on experience managing medium to large-scale projects in a cross-functional, enterprise environment.
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Planview, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Suite, Power BI).
- Robust knowledge of project management methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstream simultaneously and deliver results under pressure.
- Effective financial acumen in tracking budgets, forecasts, and vendor invoices.
- Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology, or related field.
Desired Skills And Abilities
- PMP, or Agile/Scrum certifications preferred.
- Experience working in global or matrixed organizations, ideally within insurance, technology, or financial services.
- Familiarity with risk and compliance frameworks.
- Outstanding analytical mindset and ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Experience leading transformation, modernization, or digital enablement projects.
What we offer
Inclusion
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.
It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Total Rewards
AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.
Sustainability
At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.
Our Pillars
- Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society - are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature - from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard - by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
- Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
- Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
- AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day - the Global Day of Giving.
For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.
Who we areAXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.Learn more at axaxl.com
