At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technology and AI strategy for UK & Lloyd's, driving innovation and operational excellence.
- Company: Join AXA XL, a forward-thinking leader in insurance technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to shape the future of AI in insurance.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities to influence senior stakeholders and drive change.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by transforming business strategies through cutting-edge technology and AI.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership skills and deep understanding of technology and AI in business.
The predicted salary is between 99000 - 121000 £ per year.
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AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Head of Technology & AI, UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions
- Locations: UK
AXA XL’s Head of Technology & AI, UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions is a key senior executive, leadership team role in the Technology & AI function, accountable for acting as the strategic technology and AI partner to deliver for UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions’ executive leadership team, in cooperation with the Tech & AI organization.
The role ensures business strategy is translated into a coherent technology and AI roadmaps, aligning investment, engineering capacity, operating model change, and measurable outcomes.
This leader shapes demand, challenges priorities, drives decision-making, and ensures delivery accountability within the Technology & AI function for UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions.
Operating as a trusted executive peer, balancing innovation with value, risk, regulatory requirements, and operational resilience, this role reports to
AXA XL’s Chief Technology & AI Officer with a dotted line to Chief Executive Officer, UK & Lloyd’s
- What you’ll be doing
- Executive Technology & AI Leadership
- Act as the primary technology and AI partner to the UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions shaping business direction through technology-led opportunities.
- Provide insights on AI disruption, competitor landscape, and modern digital and AI business models relevant to insurance.
- Translate complex technology concepts into commercial and operational implications for executive decision-making.
- Strategy-to-Execution Translation
- Convert business strategy into a prioritized and funded technology and AI roadmap.
- Define the sequencing of initiatives based on value, feasibility, regulatory constraints, and delivery capacity.
- Ensure roadmaps integrate digital, data, AI, automation, and core platform modernization.
- Drive robust partnerships within the Tech & AI leadership team to ensure common principles, frameworks and guidelines are deployed and executed with effective coordination across all disciplines in the function.
- Enterprise Alignment & Investment Governance
- Represent UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions’ needs into enterprise technology investment forums.
- Own business unit-level investment cases, ensuring clarity of ROI, outcomes, and measurable benefits.
- Challenge the business on value definition and ensure initiatives meet enterprise architecture, security, and AI governance requirements.
- Portfolio Ownership & Delivery Oversight
- Own the technology and AI portfolio for UK & Lloyd’s and Enabling Functions, ensuring delivery performance, dependencies, and risks are actively managed.
- Hold delivery teams accountable for execution outcomes while ensuring the business fulfils its accountabilities (SMEs, process change, adoption).
- Provide clear reporting to Global Leadership Team partner(s) on delivery confidence, risks, financial position, and benefits tracking.
- Stakeholder Management & Executive Influence
- Challenging and influencing senior stakeholders with poise and composure, facilitating decision-making forums, resolving prioritization conflicts and driving outcomes.
- Build alignment across business functions including underwriting, claims, pricing, finance, customer operations, and distribution.
- AI Adoption & Business Transformation
• Drive enterprise AI adoption within the business unit, ensuring
- high-value use cases are identified
- adoption and operating model impacts are planned
- workforce readiness is supported
- human-in-the-loop and control frameworks are implemented
- Ensure AI is embedded into workflows rather than delivered as standalone tools.
- Risk, Resilience & Regulatory Partnership
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Security to ensure delivery aligns to regulatory and control requirements.
- Ensure AI initiatives comply with Responsible AI, privacy, and model risk expectations.
- Ensure technology resilience and service continuity risks are visible and actively managed.
- Commercial and Vendor Leadership
- Partner with Procurement and Technology leadership to shape vendor strategy aligned to business unit priorities.
- Support contract negotiations, supplier performance management, and strategic partnerships.
- Ensure commercial outcomes align to delivery outcomes and service performance.
- What you’ll bring
- Commercial Acumen
- Keen understanding of business strategy, financial drivers, and operational performance levers.
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