Are you committed to shaping the future of learning and development, ensuring our teams are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to excel? Then this position could be for you. Our approach is strategic, outcome-focused, and evidence-based, driving the delivery of our core and common capability strategies through innovative design, continuous improvement, and effective deployment. You'll leverage knowledge and understanding of the respective stakeholders needs and business areas across AXA UK, to shape the delivery of the AXA UK Leadership and Talent proposition, with a future focused mindset. When gaps are identified, our collaborative teams analyse root causes and curate sustainable, cost-effective digital content ensuring our learning solutions are scalable and aligned with AXA UK and Ireland's holistic mindset.
Our team is dedicated to continuous self-development, staying ahead of emerging trends in learning technology and methodologies to enhance learner engagement and effectiveness. We work closely with internal and external partners, including strategic stakeholders, digital designers, and facilitators, to deliver impactful learning experiences at every stage, from discovery to iteration. Through transparent reporting on engagement and performance outcomes, we ensure our initiatives deliver measurable value and support our business objectives. As key contributors within the broader HR and Learning & Development community, we foster a culture of knowledge-sharing, innovation, and growth driving AXA UK’s learning evolution forward.
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%) towards the end of 2025. 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.
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing consultancy to shape the delivery of the Leadership and Talent proposition, for AXA’s core and common strategy, in collaboration with key business stakeholders and the UK Learning and Development centre of excellence
- Guiding and encouraging the business to cultivate a culture of continuous learning, where learning is ‘always on’ enabled through blended self-led learning resources that are deployed at point in need and in the flow of work
- Developing and maintain deep trusting and respectful relationships with key stakeholders to ensure curriculum content remains relevant, appropriate, future focused and is recognised as an enabler to business performance
- Leveraging these relationships to influence well and gain buy in and sponsorship
- Taking a strategically driven, outcome focused and evidenced based approach to promote our leadership and talent offering
- Collaborating with the wider learning and development team where gaps and improvements are identified to curate and create cost effective, sustainable, and scalable content with a digital first and holistic AXA UK&I mindset
- Contributing to all new work across the learning and development team through definition, discovery, design, development, deployment and iteration stages in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Providing visibility and report on engagement and usage, uplift in business performance and return on investment
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.
We know that some candidates may be discouraged from applying if they don't meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this job and the prospect of working at AXA but you’re not sure you tick every box, we’d still encourage you to apply.
What you’ll bring:
- Experienced Learning and Development professional with a good knowledge of learning and development practices
- Hold or working towards CIPD Level 5 Diploma in Learning and Development
- A good understanding of Learning and Development operating models, processes, tools, methodologies, techniques and adult learning practices
- Ability to understand, assimilate and analyse data and insights to identify root cause and develop a strong understanding of business outcomes and where L&D can enable
- Strong relationship, stakeholder management, influencing and social engagement skills with the ability to build trusting and respectful partnerships
- Action oriented, delivery focused and excellent project management skills with proven experience in planning, managing, and implementing programmes of work
- Passion for delivering high quality work and continuous improvement along with the ability to prioritise workloads and deal with conflicting priorities
- Good ability to draw down on external trends, emerging technologies to innovate the learning and development offer
- Proactive mindset to seek out ways to remain current and credible, identifying and anticipating emerging learning and technological trends, to innovate and improve learner engagement and effectiveness
- Experience of operating in a matrixed organisation would be advantageous
Internal candidates are encouraged to apply for this role as a secondment opportunity through the internal careers site.
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
What We Offer
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 £45,000 dependent on experience
- Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- Private health cover
- 28 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
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Who We Are
AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.
