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AXA

Global insurer offering life, property, casualty

Expert Product Owner Life

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBrussels, Belgium

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, ideally in economics, insurance, IT, management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience, with solid knowledge of Life products and activities, ideally in Employee Benefits.
  • Understanding of business issues and the ability to connect operational needs, strategic objectives, and functional solutions.
  • Ability to gather and analyze business needs, structure them, and translate them into clear, precise, actionable functional requirements.
  • Ability to prioritize and make trade-offs based on business value, risks, dependencies, and constraints.
  • Strong analytical thinking and a pragmatic, creative, solution-oriented approach.
  • Attention to detail and ability to identify issues or improvement opportunities in existing or newly implemented Life processes.
  • Curiosity, proactivity, and openness to change, including willingness to challenge existing approaches to create value.
  • Clear, constructive, and assertive oral and written communication, and ability to mobilize stakeholders toward a common objective.
  • Ability to adapt when priorities, objectives, or deadlines change.
  • Autonomy, flexibility, strong organization, and ability to manage multiple topics and stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Fluency in French or Dutch, both spoken and written, and very good knowledge of the other national language and English.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to defining and evolving the vision for assigned processes and solutions, aligning them with the priorities and objectives of the Life Business Unit.
  • Critically analyze existing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and propose ways to simplify, harmonize, and improve efficiency while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Gather, analyze, and structure business needs and translate them into clear, consistent, sufficiently detailed functional requirements for implementation.
  • Prioritize needs and changes based on value for the business and users, strategic priorities, risks, dependencies, and operational constraints.
  • Collaborate with IT, Legal, Product Management, Customer Service Life, Compliance, Audit, and the Transformation Office to ensure solution feasibility, quality, and implementation.
  • Act as a business and functional reference to ensure solutions and processes are consistent with other organizational initiatives and changes.
  • Support initiatives throughout their lifecycle, from needs analysis through implementation and continuous improvement; establish test plans, participate in testing, and help validate developed solutions against business needs.
  • Contribute to implementing action and compliance plans initiated by Compliance and Audit and, where necessary, participate in defining and executing control plans.
  • Identify and help manage functional and business risks while ensuring compliance with applicable standards, frameworks, and good practices.
  • For selected initiatives, coordinate contributors and stakeholders, track dependencies, and contribute to governance and steering bodies.
  • Provide expertise and recommendations to management to support decisions and trade-offs, especially on priorities, quality, and business value.
  • Support change by anticipating the impacts of changes, facilitating communication with affected teams, and helping users adopt them.
  • Share expertise and good practices and contribute to continuous improvement of processes, working methods, and Product Owner maturity in the organization.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in Product Ownership, transformation, project management, or process improvement is an asset.
  • Experience in Employee Benefits is advantageous.

About the Company

AXA

Global insurer offering life, property, casualty

AXA is a global insurer and asset manager that provides life, health, and property and casualty insurance, as well as related financial services. Its products work by customers paying insurance premiums in exchange for coverage against risks; AXA pools risk across many policyholders, prices premiums based on risk, and pays claims when events occur, while also offering investment and retirement products through its asset management arm. The company has grown through large acquisitions, giving it a wide geographic footprint and a diverse mix of personal, commercial, and specialty insurance offerings. This scale and breadth set AXA apart from many competitors, alongside a long history of strategic mergers that expanded its reach to customers around the world. AXA’s goal is to be a leading global insurer and asset manager, delivering financial protection and long-term value to customers and stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1816

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