Business Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Axa

Axa

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Description:

This is a fantastic opportunity to fast track your early career, get a holistic view of the Insurance business and build a strong network with exposure to senior stakeholders.

Reporting directly to the Head of Retail CEO Office, this role oversees the operations of the CEO Office and supports the strategic direction of the Retail organisation.

This includes being a strategic advisor, confidante, facilitator and implementer, dealing with issues and solving problems to support the Retail CEO Office, and their priorities.

At AXA we're adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers.

Whilst this role can be done primarily from home, you will be required to go to our London Office as required.

What you'll be doing:

Supporting Retail CEO Office agenda and priorities including a weekly catch up on CEO key deliverables, prioritisation, and CEO's diary management
Coordinating Retail meetings and events and collaborating with other departments and teams to ensure the smooth and efficient functioning of the Office
Supporting CEO's communication and public relations
Driving and connecting CEO's comms (internal and external) and writing briefing notes prior to external meetings and events
Collaborating with our Internal, External, and social media comms teams
Preparing Retail ExCom materials (including but not limited to: Retail ExCom packs, ExCom 1:1 document, UK&I MC papers etc.). Supporting Retail ExCom meetings, agendas, minutes, and actions
Managing, prioritising, and delivering Adhoc requests delegated by the Head of CEO Office and/or CEO
Continuously reviewing and improving processes and procedures to optimise Retail operations
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with CEO Office, ExCom, Retail, UK&I and Group stakeholders
Assisting with special projects as needed and jointly ensuring delivery of strategic initiatives

Qualifications:

1 to 2 years of experience in the following areas is a plus: Graduate Scheme / Consulting / Public Affairs / Comms & Media / Journalism / Company Secretarial
Experience within Financial Services desirable
Flexibility / career driven / resilient / with the ability to work with ambiguity and under significant pressure
Ability to rapidly understand, assimilate, analyse, and act on complex business and financial issues
Excellent writing skills (papers, briefing notes, comms)
A high level of initiative and organisation with very strong attention to detail and focus on execution with the ability to deliver at pace
Courage to question with curious mindset, consistently bringing the outside in
High level of numeracy/ financial acumen ready to develop
Communication skills at individual and organisational levels, with ability to work across different levels of the organisation
Influencing skills, networking ability, interpersonal skills, resilience, political awareness, and stakeholder sensitivity
High levels of integrity, discretion and judgement
Good understanding of the AXA Group, and how decisions are made in complex organisation is desirable

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package.

At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that.

You can expect to receive:

Competitive annual salary of up to £35,000 dependent upon experience
Annual company & performancebased bonus
Discretionary company & performancebased bonus
Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave
AXA employee discounts
Gym benefits

Our ambition is to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for, as such we're committed to supporting employee needs, providing meaningful career development and celebrating differences.

We understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities, therefore we're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.

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About AXA:

With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.

You'll work in an open and supportive environment where you'll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally.

You'll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you'll e