Strategic Development Executive

AXA UK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Strategic Development Executive to join their Retail team. This role focuses on managing the onboarding of new deals within the Retail Distribution function and ensuring compliance with governance standards. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills, effective communication abilities, and experience in the insurance industry. Competitive salary and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy/sell extra leave

Wellbeing services & resources

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in personal lines insurance, distribution, partnerships, or project coordination is a plus.
• Must be eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain onboarding plans for new partners and deals.
• Coordinate partner readiness activities including documentation and training.
• Ensure governance artefacts are produced and maintained.
• Facilitate project meetings ensuring clear agendas and follow-ups.
• Maintain accurate progress reporting for each deal.
• Support risk and dependency management.
• Assist in transitioning bids to delivery.
• Contribute to improvements in the framework through best practice sharing.

Skills

Strong organisational and planning skills

Good relationship management skills

Clear communication skills

Attention to detail

Experience in personal lines insurance

Good understanding of customer journey

Skilled in IT tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Solid numeracy skills

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Description

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.

What you’ll be doing

• 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 captured 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

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

• 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 like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration platforms such as Teams and SharePoint
• Solid numeracy skills to interpret data and present information clearly

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 £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

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Who we are

AXA Retail helps people live the life they love, knowing we’ve got their back, at home and on the road. Our people are vital to us becoming more digital, faster and easier to access. We’re a dynamic team of experts completely committed to making sure our customers ‘get back to the good stuff’ when the unexpected happens.