Venture Clienting Analyst (Internship)
AXA
Stage / V.I.E.
Sur site (présentiel)
Paris A8 FR
Vente et Business Development, Gestion de projet et Produit, Informatique, Data et Tech
Job Description:
Join AXA’s Innovation team to accelerate AI and startup-driven solutions. Scout insurtech partners, solve business challenges, and shape the future of insurance. Be part of a dynamic environment focused on transformation, collaboration, and impactful innovation!
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About the job
Internship purpose
AXA Group Innovation Team is the new consolidated Group team under Group Chief Technology and AI Officer focused on accelerate AI and innovation delivery across AXA Group in support of the Group Strategy.
This unit is in charge of delivering impactful innovation projects together with AXA’s operating companies with the ambition to scale up existing transformative business assets across the company. We partner with AXA entities to deliver Core Business Reinvention and New Business Asset Creation. Within this unit, the Venture Clienting team aims at accelerating the adoption and maximize the business impact and value creation of startup solutions and partners across AXA entities.
We find and scale opportunities in the form of tech assets to solve business problems within the 4 strategic priorities: Claims automation, underwriting transformation, contact center modernization and Software engineering automation. We also enable growth through innovation: achieve customer intimacy and innovate to insure new and emerging risks.
The Venture Clienting Consultant will work within the Venture Clienting team in the AXA Group Operations innovation unit. She/he will be in charge of the delivery of Venture Clienting innovation missions.
Key priorities include working with AXA entities to understand their needs with the support of a senior Venture Clienting expert, scout for startups to answer that need and present the results to the client entity.
It is an opportunity to train on the startup and especially insurtech ecosystem, to discover a new innovation model called Venture Clienting, ramp up on project management skills and understand the insurance business though the needs understanding.
Main missions
Your responsibilities include:
- Scout and evaluate InsurTech partners for their ability to solve AXA business problems at Group level,
- Participate in identifying and explicating business and customer pain points with the AXA Next teams through existing approaches (eg. Business prototyping, workshops, best practices analysis),
- Contribute to designing innovative and attractive business value leveraging the identified partners and considering the existing landscape and considering local operational, business and financial constraints.
- Working with entity stakeholders to define aspects of business plans (estimate budget on a stage-by-stage basis along with business impact), project timeline and tracking KPIs for project ROI.
Expected skills & experience
We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business / engineering / Digital Business,
- A track record of training in consulting or finance.
Technical skills
- Rigorous, good analytical skills (quantitative and qualitative), synthesis and ability to grasp trends is an absolute must,
- Good mastery of Microsoft Office tools,
- Experience in visual collaboration tool and remote working practice,
- Basic knowledge of tech project delivery and insurance.
Soft skills / transversal skills
- Good communication skills,
- Self-starter with proven ability to achieve be an effective member of high-functioning multi-cultural teams,
- Excellent sense of self-organization,
- High degree of initiative and energy, “can-do” attitude, flexibility, teamwork, attention to detail,
- Ability to communicate complex ideas in a compelling way to a variety of audiences, including convince and challenge in a positive way,
- Good team player at ease in a multi-cultural and expertise team,
- Independent, self-motivated with a desire to work in a growth-oriented, start-up environment, yet adapting to global corporate dynamics,
- Flexibility to travel (if / when situation allows for it),
- Good interpersonal and multilingual communication skills. French and English in particular (German is a plus),
- Excellent strong work ethic, impeccable integrity, judgment.
What we offer
We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.
About the entity
AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.
We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.
We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.
At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:
- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities
About AXA
As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.