Pricing Models & Platform Manager - (M/F) - Paris Or Madrid

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Your work environment

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

Within the Group, you will join the Group Chief Underwriting Office as Pricing Models & Platform Manager.

Context & Major Challenges

The newly created Global Chief Underwriting Office will be accountable for establishing, enabling, and driving profit and growth through Product Underwriting Strategy, Portfolio Design and Technical Underwriting Excellence in partnership with the AXA Entities, for both Commercial and Retail, through:

• Portfolio Design Steering
• Underwriting Product Strategy and Profitability Measurement
• Technical Underwriting Guidance
• Pricing Models, Platforms and Analytics
• Risk Appetite deployment
• Ceded Reinsurance strategy design and purchasing

As part of the CUO Office you will be an integral part of the Group Pricing Team partnering directly with underwriting, the entities and Pricing management as we look to develop and deliver our strategic objectives.

Key Accountabilities

• As part of Technical Excellence Plan, be an integral contributor, executing on an enterprise pricing model strategy that enables a strong link to data (input and output), analytics and technology.
• Contribute to the development of the pricing platform, developing Pricing models with scalable languages and build towards globally consistent and flexible models to allow for real time updates to reflect dynamic and changing conditions.
• Facilitate global pricing tool usage through sharing best practices, developing users guides and maintaining records within central model database.
• Support the TDO strategy with regard to technical pricing and support the building of pricing platforms and methodologies.
• Leverage capabilities and infrastructure developed by TDO and contribute to a clear communication with TDO and Pricing.
• Research new strategic approaches to modelling and pricing methodologies to improve model performance.
• Engage with UW/Pricing to solve complex model problems, and educate and enable Underwriters and Pricing Actuaries in model usage. 
• Contribute to designing a consistent strategy of data capture, facilitate the usage of these data elements for strategic purposes (portfolio studies, refining pricing, etc.).
• Develop a strong network of relationships with internal and external stakeholders to influence technical Pricing model improvements globally and drive consistency in approach where appropriate.

Dimensions

• Global scope: full remit (across all businesses & geographies).
• Key contributor to the Pricing Models and Analytics remit for the GCUO

Stakeholders:

• Head of Pricing within the entities and within Group
• TDO

KPIs for Success:

• Measure of the partnership with the entities
• Direct influence on the strategy, pricing model and analytics development and technical performance of the entities
• Deliver on building the analytic and technology culture of the entire organization
• Enabler of the strategic plan

Main competencies and experience

Competencies

• Change Leader builds strong partnerships and effectively influence stakeholders; clearly communicates and drives alignments on shared outcomes; extreme ownership on outcomes with strategic and operational rigor.
• Proven experience within insurance pricing and with core actuarial and data science concepts.
• Strong technical aptitude with experience programming in Python/R, SQL, and Excel/VBA.
• Strong ability to work in a team. Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with teams having varying backgrounds/skillsets (TDO, Actuarial, UW).
• Committed, self-organized, with a strong attention to detail.

Behaviors

• Self aware
• Collaborative
• Builds trust
• Good listening skills to build consensus
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Flexible & willing to say ‘I don’t know, let me find the answer’
• Humble enough to listen to others who have the expertise and build relationships
• Strong Relationship builder
• Change agent
• Culturally sensitive to difference
• Patience & the ability to take time to learn

Experience

• Fully Certified Actuary.
• Extensive experience in building pricing & analytical models within an AXA entity or other company.
• Ability to directly support the data, technology, pricing model and analytics strategies.
• Proven experience interacting with Pricing and TDO leaders and evolving in matrixed environments.
• Experience in driving change and building relationships.
• Proven experience in leading multicultural and multifaced geographically spread teams.

• Fluent English

Why AXA ? Every day, we work together for human progress by protecting what matters. A mission that puts a smile on your face and makes you want to get up in the morning !

One of the world's leading insurers in the protection of property, people and assets, AXA is 145,000 employees and contributors who are committed to our customers on a daily basis, 51 countries in which we distribute our products and services and more than 90 million customers who place their trust in us worldwide.  As a responsible corporate citizen, AXA is committed to social and environmental causes on a daily basis. We are committed to an inclusive policy that recognizes and values individual differences. Do these ambitions speak to you ? Then come and change the world with us !

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.

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