Head Of People Analytics & Insights

Description:

We're looking for our next leader to head up our people analytics function. This great opportunity brings with it core ownership of establishing and implementing our data strategy, encompassing our operational model, data architecture, and governance.

You'll be overseeing the day-to-day operational delivery of people data, analytics, and insights to fulfill customer needs, providing this wide stakeholder group with both management information and integrated insights products, empowering them to make more informed, timely, and customer-focused commercial decisions.

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 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you’ll be doing:

Working with the People Chief Operating Officer, AXA UK and Ireland (UK&I), to design and drive forward the Data and Insights strategy and ambition, including the strategic transformation of legacy data and reporting to our new TOM. Accountable for the execution of this strategy, including the prioritisation and delivery of all related products and services, the development of supporting process, skills, technology and governance through 3 managed capabilities, HR Data and Technology, HR Reporting and HR Insights.

HR Data and Technology
 

• Principle advocate of HR Data Management principles and good practice, influencing HR teams and the business towards better data management practices. Owner of HR’s ethical data protection framework, ensuring team practice stays within agreed guardrails.
• Accountable for the HR analytics technology roadmap, ensuring it'll deliver on current and future requirements.
  
   

HR Reporting
 

• Accountable for HR’s reporting capability, covering the production of simple ad hoc reporting through to advance dashboarding MI products.
  
   

HR Insights
 

• Accountable for HR’s insights capability, notably the use of advanced statistics technology to solve high value business questions and the injection of embedded insights into the customer process points where critical decisions are required.
  
   

Additional responsibilities:
 

• Accountable for ongoing alignment and mapping AXA customer persona groups to their requirements and contracting with them on the delivery of products and support that fulfill those needs.
• Build and maintain active relationships with these groups, including raising overall CoE visibility.
• Lead stakeholder management for the CoE, including influencing and delivering to senior leaders in HR and the business, maintaining key relationships.
• Guide and inspire a team of 6, with 2 direct reports, including developing team capability to improve strategy execution.
• Lead the wider HR Insights Community (including embedded HR reporting and insights roles outside of the CoE that sit in the UK&I Business Units).