Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Global Tech & AI

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Senior HRBP, Global Tech & AIUK, France, or US Technology & AI is a newly established function for AXA XL, has 1400 colleagues across 19 countries with a total workforce of around 3000, operating in one of the fastest-changing talent and business environments. With the recent appointment of our Chief Technology & AI Officer, we have a clear focus on our strategic ambition & enterprise transformation, bringing together people, technology, and the future of work.We are seeking a strategic HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders across the Technology & AI function, translating our strategic ambition into workforce requirements, shaping the organization and building the capabilities needed for the future.As a Senior HRBP within the Global HR Tech & AI team, you will be a strategic workforce architect, executing a forward-looking talent strategy while building robust and trusted business partnerships. This role will also depend on deep, proactive collaboration across our global HR network to deliver the broader AXA XL people strategic initiatives effectively and consistently.You will report to the Global Head of Human Resources, Technology & AI Office.What you’ll be doingWhat will your essential responsibilities include?Strategic workforce planning: Translate our technology & AI strategy into a forward-looking people, organization and workforce agenda, executing our workforce strategy with a core focus on skills and capabilities needed 2–5 years from now.Operating model & organization design: Assess profiles and skills to understand our work and outcomes, including build/buy/borrow/automate decisions and the evolving intersection of human talent, automation and AI-enabled work.External market orientation: Actively engage in emerging Tech & AI talent trends, scarce/new skills, competitor practices and evolving workforce models, across all industries alongside Insurance.Commercial & enterprise acumen: Understand technology investment, productivity, capacity, location strategy and talent economics while connecting Tech & AI decisions to broader enterprise implications.Data-driven decision making: Use workforce intelligence, skills data and scenario planning to shape decisions and challenge assumptions, moving to predictive analytics to execute our workforce strategy.What you’ll bring We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:PEOPLE | Daring Partner & Change LeaderResilience & comfort in ambiguity: Remain effective and ability to pivot when priorities shift, in a transformative landscape where we are solving new emerging business challenges.Coaching & Executive counsel: Build credibility to challenge senior leaders constructively, to onboard or integrate into a newly formed Tech & AI leadership team, building high performance.Strategic influence & trust: Build trusted relationships quickly and influence senior stakeholders through credibility, insight, and collaboration.Change leadership at pace: Create readiness, adoption and sustained behavior change while the workforce evolves.Learning agility & curiosity: Possess a relentless appetite to understand emerging technologies, workforce trends and the evolution of technology & AI impacts on our people/organization.Solution oriented: Apply LEAN thinking to look at the problem we are solving for and creating value. Shaping solutions from ambiguity, test, learn, course-correct and keep moving – iterate and evolve.TECHNICAL | Workforce Architect & Tech-Fluent AI & technology fluency: Ability to understand a technical landscape, tools, technology & concepts (GenAI, automation, data, applications, integrations, product model) and the broader technology ecosystem to credibly engage technical leaders and understand workforce implications.AI-enabled workforce design: Assess our function & work that can be augmented, automated or redesigned and which human capabilities become more important as a result.Skills-based workforce planning: Challenge current ways of working to be relentless in our pursuit for profiles / capabilities required to execute, with a future-lens, including skills adjacency, reskilling, transferability and targeted acquisition.Workforce transformation & strategy: Deliver solutions aligning to our workforce strategy, anticipate capability gaps and create practical build/buy/borrow/automate strategies.Digital adoption & AI enablement: Recognize that deploying technology is not transformation; help leaders create the conditions for success - skills, behaviors, culture and ways of working required.Responsible AI / people-risk awareness: Understand governance, ethics, bias, privacy, employee relations and emerging regulations to recognize risk and engage Legal, Compliance and Risk appropriately.What we offer InclusionAXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index Signatory to the UK Women in Finance CharterLearn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Total RewardsAXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.SustainabilityAt AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations. Our Pillars:Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving. For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability. Who we areAXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.Learn more at axaxl.comThe U.S. base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $190,000 USD. AXA XL is a global Company. The salary range noted above is applicable only for US applicants. Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues’ pay.At AXA XL, we know how important physical, mental, and financial health are to our employees, which is why we are proud to offer benefits such as a competitive retirement savings plan, health and wellness programs, and many other benefits. We also believe in fostering our colleagues' development and offer a wide range of learning opportunities for colleagues to hone their professional skills and to position themselves for the next step of their careers.