Wordings Manager

at  AXA

Our Global Wordings team has an exciting opportunity to join them as a Wordings Manager. You will be an integral part of the team supporting the underwriting business across all product lines covering a wide variety of complex risks. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your technical drafting skills and advisory services to the underwriters, their clients, and brokers in order to provide a service differentiator for AXA XL.

SHARE YOUR TALENT

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• An ability to think creatively and provide underwriters, brokers, and clients with practical wordings solutions.
• An ability to interrogate and explore complex and abstract concepts relevant to policy coverage.
• An ability to communicate ideas simply, both in writing and face to face.
• A comprehensive understanding of insurance law concepts.
• First class drafting skills.
• An understanding of how insurance products perform in the real world.
• A logical and methodical approach.
• Extensive experience in a wordings specialist / technician role dealing with multiple lines of business.

Experience in the following areas is desirable but not essential:

• Leading projects and taking responsibility for colleague performance and development.
• The use of contract analytics technology tools.

• Teamwork – collaborating with colleagues across the Wordings team, the wider Legal Department and beyond to deliver on team objectives and service delivery requirements.
• Responsible for coaching, developing, and motivating direct reports and junior members of the team. Responsibilities including but not limited to; recruitment and selection; staff appraisals; workforce planning; providing feedback and training opportunities; proactively addressing staff grievance and performance issues and reward and remuneration in accordance with AXA XL’s policies and practices.
• Role models by setting a high bar for performance, engagement, and commitment. Ability to coach, develop, set expectations, evaluate, and hold people accountable for delivering. Takes initiative and can lead independently.
• Analyzing – reviewing our existing products, new products, and those of our competitors, including analysis and explanation of individual clauses right through to entire product wordings, always with a focus on delivering a commercial solution to any issued raised.
• Creating – working closely with key stakeholders to build new insurance products from scratch or refine or expand existing products.
• Training and developing – developing team colleagues and sharing best practice solutions across the wider business.
• Oversight of wordings instructions from various lines of business, ensuring that caseloads are appropriately managed within the team and high levels of quality, consistency and service are maintained.
• Assisting the Head of Global Wordings with setting the goals and the strategic direction of the Wordings Team.
• Keeping clear and regular communication with the underwriting teams, understanding their business, needs and demands.
• Project managing team-specific projects and assisting with company-wide projects. Identifying trends and systemic issues arising from the team’s wording reviews. Generating reports and presenting information to upper-level managers and other parties.
• Analytical and critical thinking, technical proficiency of the underwriting and claims functions, strong interpersonal skills