AXA XL
Website:
axaxl.com
Job details:
Senior Project Manager
Bangalore, Karnatak, India
This position involves leading large-scale, complex, or enterprise-wide initiatives from initiation to delivery. Responsibilities include defining and managing project scope, objectives, budget, resources, risks, and dependencies; establishing program governance; and ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies. The role acts as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, delivering data-driven updates and facilitating decision-making. It requires managing risks, dependencies, and issues proactively, supporting audit processes, and overseeing multi-million dollar budgets. The position also involves vendor management, team leadership, mentoring junior project managers, and contributing to the project management community. Ensuring compliance with AXA XL’s governance standards is a key aspect of the role.
What You’ll Be DOING
What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Lead large, complex, or enterprise-wide initiatives from initiation through delivery, including project-level coordination when required.
- Define and manage project scope, objectives, budget, resources, risk, and dependencies.
- Establish and maintain program governance strucutres and ensure strategic alignment with business and IT goals.
- Act as a trusted advisor and single point of contact for senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Deliver concise, data-driven updates and presentations for executive leadership and steering committees.
- Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution, and alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Ensure full compliance with AXA XL’s governance framework, including Planview updates, RAG status reporting, PSR validation, and gate reviews.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and issues, implementing mitigation strategies and escalation protocols.
- Support audit readiness and ensure documentation meets quality and regulatory standards.
- Develop and manage multi-million dollar bugets, forecasts, and actuals.
- Lead vendor engagement, including contract tracking, performance monitoring, and coordination with third-party delivery partners.
- Lead and motivate cross-functional teams, including matrixed, onshote, and offshore resouces.
- Mentor and support junior project managers and contribute to the Project Management community of practices.
You will report to Project Management Lead.
What You Will BRING
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Required Skills And Abilities
- Relevant years of progressive project management experience in compliex, global environments.
- Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, high-visibility initiatives across technolgoy and business domains.
- Deep expterise in project management methodologis (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) and tools (Planview, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft suite – Power BI).
- Proven ability to manage stakeholder expectations and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
- Robust fianncial acumen, with experience in managing multimillion-dollar budgets.
- Exeptional leadership, influence, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree in Business, Technology, or related field preferred.
Desired Skills And Abilities
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or Agile certifications preferred.
- Experience in the insurance, financial services, or technology sectors.
- Familiarity with portfolio management, enterprise architecture, or transformation initiatives.
- Abiliy to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed, and evolving environment.
- Outstanding executive presence with the ability to translate complex topics into clear business terms.
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.
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