Senior Insurance Specialist - AXA Investment Managers

At AXA IM our purpose, to act for human progress by investing for what matters, is central to every action we take as a business. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper.

This is a critical central role with responsibility for:

• Managing and overseeing our global property insurance programme
• Ensuring the real estate business has adequate corporate and D&O insurance coverage

Your role and responsibilities will include:

• Manage the global property insurance programme for AXA's real estate platform (Property Damages, loss of rent, Terrorism, Property Owner Liability) including invoicing, claims management, impacts of additions / disposals
• Manage W&I insurance associated with transactions
• Arrange as necessary property construction insurance
• Manage the corporate insurance programme ensuring the Professional Indemnity and D&O policies are adequate for the real estate business line
• Select and manage key global insurance brokers, ensuring a close working relationship, clear processes and clear measurement of broker performance in line with agreed SLAs
• Advise the real estate business (mainly Transactions, Asset Management, Legal teams) on insurance related matters and insurance clauses in specific contracts
• Ensure there are documented and published processes for managing the insurance programme for both property and corporate related insurance, including the invoicing and billing arrangements, claims, property acquisitions and sales
• Manage the Insurance Officer role in the Central Services Team
• Effectively and efficiently communicate on insurance topics to the real estate business Management Board and where relevant providing an aggregated view at company level
• Address ad-hoc requests from Fund Management, Asset Management, Transactions, Legal etc
• All other topics related to insurance

Your qualifications and experience:

• University degree from a recognised institution
• Significant experience in insurance in a real estate context, ideally in a global context
• Experience in real estate investment management companies, or Real Estate Private Equity companies desirable
• Experience managing staff and working in teams. Strong leadership and development skills
• Experience managing Global Insurance Programs

Your knowledge and skills:

• Excellent knowledge across the insurance lines (property, terrorism, PI, D&O, W&I, Construction insurance) in a global context
• Advanced negotiation skills
• Ability to work in complex organisations
• Very good analytical skills
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Customer and service delivery orientated
• Rigorous, self-motivated, organised and autonomous
• Strong command of English language (written and verbal) essential. French language skills advantageous

We would love to know more about you. Let's connect! Send us your resume.

We are committed to offer you an environment where you can:

• Grow your potential: Be part of a forward-thinking business with internal opportunities and personalized learning paths available to help constantly develop your skills and abilities.
• Shape the way you work: Work for a company which is highly committed to providing flexibility & balance to its employees, offering you a large range of benefits (hybrid working, competitive health benefits, among many others).
• Thrive within a diverse community: Play a role within a responsible company that actively recognizes and values individual differences in a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• Move the world forward: Join a responsible employer that acts in favor of societal and environmental causes as an investor, insurer and company, notably through the AXA Heart in Action association.

AXA IM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we encourage candidates with disabilities or any other protected characteristic to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, when needed, to apply for a position or to perform essential job functions.