Distribution & Marketing Business Manager

AXA UK plc; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the UK is seeking a strategic support role within the Distribution and Marketing Directorate. The position requires excellent communication, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities. You'll work closely with senior leadership to drive initiatives and support decision-making. Competitive salary and a hybrid working model offered.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary of up to £55,000

Discretionary company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)

Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines calmly.
• Strong political awareness and stakeholder sensitivity.
• Results and delivery focused with high numeracy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver solutions to ad-hoc tasks delegated by leadership.
• Coordinate key strategic business initiatives.
• Establish effective relationships with stakeholders.
• Prepare reports and presentations for leadership.

Skills

Commercially minded

Highly organised

Excellent communication skills

Strong Influencing skills

Ability to assimilate and analyse information

Expertise in report writing

Highly numerate

Strong Microsoft Office skills

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Overview

This role sits at the heart of the Distribution and Marketing Directorate, providing key support to the Distribution and Marketing Director and wider leadership team to help drive progress on our strategic priorities, ensure alignment across our teams and support the smooth running of the Directorate. You'll engage on day-to-day matters, strategic initiatives and key projects, coordinating across AXA Health and AXA UK&I. You'll coordinate and provide timely reporting and analysis to facilitate informed decision making and direction on business activity. 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.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver solutions to ad-hoc tasks and projects delegated by the Distribution and Marketing Director and Head of Distribution Improvement and Transformation, coordinating across AXA Health and AXA UK&I; report progress and consider internal/external market factors.
• Participate in and coordinate key strategic business initiatives and programmes within Distribution (e.g., Operating Model reviews, supporting business strategy and distribution-wide initiatives).
• Hold and manage the communication and engagement plan for the function.
• Establish and manage effective relationships with key stakeholders within AXA Health, AXA UK&I and other entities.
• Prepare regular performance reports and high-quality presentations and board updates, helping to interpret financials and performance trends and supporting the Distribution and Marketing Senior Leadership Team with data-driven decision making.
• Coordinate leadership meetings, preparing and helping ensure we stay focused on the right priorities.
• Monitor progress against Distribution and Marketing strategic commitments, highlighting risks and opportunities to drive success.
• Support prioritisation of commitments for the Distribution and Marketing Director, delegating activities to direct reports where necessary or acting on their behalf.
• Liaising across multiple teams to ensure information, decisions and initiatives flow smoothly between Distribution and Marketing, Product and Proposition, Transformation, COO and Pricing and Finance and any relevant Committees.
• Preparing narratives for updates, blogs and wider communications across the organisation.

Qualifications and attributes

• Commercially minded, with an interest in performance, numbers and what drives our results
• Highly organised and proactive - able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines calmly and confidently
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders at all levels and ability to build trusted relationships
• Strong Influencing skills, political awareness and stakeholder sensitivity; comfortable working with senior leaders
• A high level of initiative, self-motivation and personal organisation
• Ability to rapidly understand, assimilate, analyse and make recommendations from business and financial information
• Expertise in report writing and creating clear, engaging PowerPoint material alongside capability in Excel, Data and utilising AI
• Results and delivery focussed
• Highly numerate with ability to manage complex numbers
• Strong Microsoft Office suite skills
• Ability to balance strategic and operational priorities in a dynamic environment

Why AXA and Equal Opportunity information

At AXA Health, we're passionate about helping our members to put their health first. From fast access to diagnosis and treatment, to guidance and tools that help them manage their health every day, our members can be confident we'll guide them, every step of the way. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and 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 are recognised as a Disability Confident Leader and participate in the Disability Confident 'Offer of Interview' scheme.

Pre-employment and interview process

As a regulated financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks and adherence to PRA Insurance Conduct Standards and FCA Conduct Rules. Details about screening and interviews will be provided during the process. If you have accessibility needs, contact the Talent Acquisition team for support.

What we offer

• Competitive annual salary of up to £55,000
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical 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