Ireland Job Openings

AXA

Head of Colleague Culture & Brand

Dublin

October 10, 2024


Exciting new opportunity in our Communications, Brand & Marketing team as Head of Colleague Culture & Brand.
We’re looking for a professional with exceptional communication skills, experienced in developing a culture framework in a complex organisation, collaborative mindset and enthusiastic about supporting AXAs broader business goals.
This role plays a critical part in shaping the internal culture and employee experience while ensuring alignment with AXA's brand standards and values.
Reporting to the Director of Communications, Brand and Marketing, this role with Head of Colleague Culture & Brand will collaborate with teams across the AXA organisation to embed positive behaviours and build a culture of relentless customer focus, that ensures all AXA colleagues are proud brand advocates, who understand the business objectives and are motivated to deliver the business strategy and drive successful customer outcomes.
  • Manage a team of Communications Business Partners to support the leadership team in building a better culture by delivering regular communications around business strategy, performance, culture, customer engagement, colleague engagement, sustainability and diversity & inclusion
  • Collaborate with the People Teams to build positive leadership behaviour by leveraging existing programmes, supporting leaders to shape internal perceptions of the company and create a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement across the organisation.
  • Be a senior strategic advisor to key stakeholders across the business, to develop their long-term culture and engagement plans, and deliver a consistent customer-focused narrative for all colleagues, aligned with AXA’s overall business strategy, purpose, values and behaviours.
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive colleague brand strategy aligned with AXA's values, vision, and business objectives.
  • Partner with the People Team to analyse and communicate colleague feedback, sentiment, and engagement data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and develop action plans accordingly.
  • Support business leaders with adopting engagement initiatives, action planning and improvement plans around these results to improve culture and operational strategies within their business areas.
  • Work with teams around the business (culture crew and catalyst teams for example) to influence and lead the evolution of our culture.
  • Partner with the People teams to develop strategic initiatives to embed the employee proposition, build capability, support wellbeing, drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and position AXA as a great place to work.
  • Manage and oversee all in person and virtual colleague events with the Communications Business Partners such as fireside chats and leadership events.

Your Profile
About the Person

  • Qualification in a relevant discipline such as Communications/PR/Change Management
  • A successful track record, in leading comparable Engagement and Culture teams
  • Experience of developing a culture framework to deliver a business strategy
  • Significant experience in driving complex organisation and cultural transformation, with an ability to demonstrate the correlation between performance, behaviours and organisational culture
  • Experience of engaging and working at the highest level of an organisation, CEO, Board and Executive team
  • Adept at engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders, contributing positively and diplomatically challenging viewpoints
  • Collaborative mindset, enthusiastic about supporting the broader business objectives
  • A strong people leader with the ability to develop and motivate a team to deliver against the vision and deliver outcomes against multiple deadlines, amending plans in response to changing circumstances
  • Exceptional communication skills, encompassing outstanding written, editing and presentation abilities
At AXA we work smart, 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. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home at one of our main office locations of Dublin, Derry or Belfast.
This role is allocated as CF1 under Fitness & Probity Regime, which means the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced level of background screening requirements. You can find more information on axa.ie/careers.
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in Ireland and/or the United Kingdom.
This recruitment campaign will be used to support permanent, temporary and/or extension for any upcoming similar positions.

About AXA

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

About the Entity

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, at AXA Ireland our values are at the heart of everything we do. We work together as One AXA, embracing our differences to make our teams great. We believe integrity, courage and our customer-first approach is what makes us a great place to work. AXA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from across all communities.


What We Offer

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA Ireland, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package reflects that. You can expect to receive:

  • Competitive salary with annual review
  • Annual company & performance-based bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme (up to 10% employer contributions)
  • Life Assurance
  • Generous annual leave plus Bank Holidays
  • AXA employee discounts
  • Education support and plenty of learning opportunities.
AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We are therefore happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, should this be a requirement for you.
At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will require employment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.
We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
AXA Ireland dac consider applicants on the basis of skills, experience & qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.
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