Job ID: 12367

Entity: AXA XL

Head of Reinsurance, Asia

Singapore

As the Head of Asia, Reinsurance, your essential responsibilities include managing AXA XL Re’s Asian operations, developing and executing strategic plans aligned with global goals, and ensuring financial growth and profitability. You will represent AXA XL Re in the region, manage exposure, and lead a high-performing team through coaching, talent development, and succession planning. Additionally, you will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and uphold corporate governance standards.

This is a PCF role regulated under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity regime and Branch Manager role for the legal entity of XL Re Europe regulated under Monetary Authority of Singapore.

This is a regulated role under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity regime.

What you’ll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Manage and oversee AXA XL Re’s Asian operations, ensuring operational excellence.
• Develop strategies and directions, ensuring achievement of the regional business plan in alignment with global strategies.
• Execute the business plan and budget, monitoring financial performance to ensure growth and profitability targets are met.
• Underwrite with the team the portfolio using established best practices and rules (guidelines)
• Support business development initiatives, maintain relationships with clients and brokers, and engage with regulators as needed.
• Represent AXA XL in the Asian region, establishing the company as the preferred market for clients and brokers.
• Manage the company’s exposure in the region, balancing risk and opportunity.
• Set and monitor performance goals for the team, ensuring achievement of KPIs.
• Develop and coach the team, fostering growth, engagement, and high performance.
• Lead succession planning and talent pipeline management to ensure sustained leadership and resource adequacy.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, corporate governance, and internal processes.

You will report to Chief Executive Officer, International Reinsurance.

What you will BRING

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Strategic Leadership: Ability to develop and implement regional strategies aligned with global objectives.
• Financial Acumen: Understanding of financial performance management, including budgeting and profitability analysis.
• Underwriting capabilities and pricing understandings.
• Relationship Management: Proven experience in building and maintaining client, broker, and regulator relationships.
• Team Leadership: Demonstrated capability in coaching, developing, and leading diverse teams, with a focus on engagement and performance.
• Regulatory and Governance Knowledge: Deep understanding of regional regulatory environments and corporate governance standards.
• Market Insight: In-depth knowledge of the Asian insurance and reinsurance markets.
• Business Development Expertise: Track record of driving growth through innovative strategies and client engagement.
• Risk Management: Ability to manage and control regional exposure effectively.
• Change Management: Experience in leading organizational change and transformation.
  
  

Who WE are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

What we OFFER

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.   At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity.  AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action:  We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.