IT Director for UK & Ireland

at  AXA Partners

POSITION SUMMARY

The IT Director UK & Ireland contributes to the formulation of the AXA Partners UK & Ireland IT Strategy based on AXA Group, AXA Partners and AXA Partners UK & Ireland vision / ambition. You will provide Leadership, ensure excellent service delivery to our customers and that client contractual expectations are met, enable Transformation and oversee a “secured” execution of IT and Digital solutions across the Business and IT Transformation context. You will drive teams and partners to ensure 24/7/365 IT availability, SLAs accomplishment and to manage incidents effectively. You will enable the transformation of AXA Partners business model by co-creating, sponsoring and driving associated projects deploying them on time, budget, quality and scope. You will contribute to Strat Plan of the business with the rest of the UK ComEx and assures the creation and deployment of technology capabilities across their perimeter. You will report directly to the AXA Partners Regional CIO and have a dotted-line with the Head sub-region UK & Ireland.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

You possess strong technical and functional knowledge, with extensive experience managing diverse IT teams and working in Agile execution. You have a proven track record of leading change and championing transformative IT and customer service strategies, demonstrating excellent business acumen and organizational understanding. You have a high level of maturity in stakeholder management, exceptional communication skills, and decision-oriented approach. You are a postgraduate, fluent in English. A computer science degree would be preferred.
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About AXA
AXA Group is the worldleader in insurance and asset management. We protect and advise our clients atevery step in their lives, by offering products and services which satisfytheir needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, saving and assetmanagement. AXA is the leading insurance brand worldwide, with over 100 millionclients. We are transforming from payer to partner for our client, with astrong focus on risk prevention.
Our mission:Empower people to live a better life.
Our values: Customer First, Courage, Integrity and One AXA.
About the Entity
AXA Partners is an AXA transversal business unit offering a wide range of solutions in assistance services, travel insurance and credit protection.
AXA Partners’ role is also to implement innovative solutions emerging from the AXA Innovation unit.
Combining passion with advanced expertise, we design and deliver worldwide solutions for partners and communities. We protect what matters, when it matters.
What We Offer
By joining AXA Partners, youwill work in a responsible company, which offers a real culture of expertise& diversity. Our focus is on accelerating the development of everyone’sskills, whilst offering attractive and competitive compensation andopportunities for professional development and growth.
Additionally, atAXA, we work to make a real difference to people - when amazing things happenand when we create opportunities for a better life, the feeling of pride isextraordinary

DIMENSIONS OF ROLE

• Accountable for establishing and driving IT & digital capabilities; this includes the leadership and management of ~40 FTEs in local teams, 2 locations, 2 datacentres and ~40 applications mostly related to Motor and Home business lines.
• Accountable for the BAU budget (plus rebilling control) and investment budget
• Member of the AXA Partners UK & Ireland ComEx and UK & Ireland Risk Committee and Conduct Risk Board.
• Member of the M&H Transformation Governance.
• Member of the Regional CIO IT Leadership team.
• Member of the AXA Partners Security SteerCo.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will ensure that IT is a valuable business partner, 100% aligned with the business strategy, delivering customer first solutions and services that help drive the growth of AXA Partners