Strategic Development Executive

Join AXA Retail as a Strategic Development Executive and support the growth of our Retail Intermediary partnerships. You'll coordinate the onboarding and delivery of new deals within the Retail Distribution function, ensuring requirements, governance, and partner readiness activities are clearly defined, well‑managed, and delivered on time. Working closely with the New Business Delivery Manager and the Bid and Proposal Manager, you’ll translate agreed business opportunities into controlled, scalable partnerships that contribute to AXA’s strategic growth ambitions.

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 two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

• Develop and maintain onboarding plans for new partners and deals, defining tasks, timelines, dependencies, roles, and success criteria for both AXA and the partner.
• Coordinate partner readiness activities, including documentation, training, process walk‑throughs, and go‑live assessments.
• Ensure governance artefacts (terms of reference, decision logs, RAID logs, approvals, and documentation) are produced, stored, and maintained in line with AXA standards.
• Facilitate regular project and workstream meetings, ensuring clear agendas, minutes, actions, and follow‑up with stakeholders and external partners.
• Maintain accurate progress reporting for each deal, providing visibility of progress, risks, dependencies, and issues to the New Business Delivery Manager and senior stakeholders.
• Support risk and dependency management by working with internal teams to identify, record, and track mitigating actions.
• Assist the Bid and Proposal Manager in transitioning bids to delivery, ensuring assumptions and expectations during the bidding phase are reflected in onboarding plans.
• Contribute to improvements in the New Deals & Delivery framework through lessons learned and best practice sharing.

• You’ll need to show you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job advert or job description.
• You don’t need to share the details of your long‑term health condition or disability for your application to be considered under this scheme.

As a regulated financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to pre‑employment checks. In addition, adherence to the PRA Insurance Conduct Standards and the FCA Conduct Rules will be required.

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

• Strong organisational and planning skills to handle multiple tasks at once.
• Good relationship management skills, working well with internal teams and external partners.
• Clear and confident communicator, both in writing and speaking.
• Attention to detail and a disciplined approach to governance and documentation.
• Experience in personal lines insurance, distribution, partnerships, or project coordination is a plus.
• Good understanding of the customer and partner journey in Personal Lines markets.
• Skilled in IT tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and collaboration platforms such as Teams and SharePoint.
• Solid numeracy skills to interpret data and present information clearly.

We believe in hiring people who possess the appropriate skills and values that align with our vision. Our selection process is fair and equitable, ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to join us. We are dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion, and we actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we take pride in treating our employees and potential hires with respect and without discrimination based on any Protected Characteristics.

AXA UK is recognised as a Disability Confident Leader and actively encourages applications from people who face barriers in the workplace due to a disability or long‑term health condition. We participate in the Disability Confident "Offer of Interview" scheme, which means a fair and proportionate number of candidates with long‑term health conditions or disabilities who meet the essential criteria of a job will be offered an interview.

• Competitive annual salary of up to £00,000
• Annual company & performance‑based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts