Head of Product Security

About AXA

AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence. AXA UK Support Functions look after our three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure and expertise to make sure we can be there for our customers.

We have a new opportunity in our Security team to lead, develop and support the Security Guild in the delivery of security strategy and mitigation activities. You’ll act as the AXA Health lead for information security implementation on projects; SME in the domains of cybersecurity, information risk management, information security controls and security architecture. You’ll lead the implementation of the security model, working on the security aspects of project and product delivery across AXA Health, including but not limited to the design, delivery, and building of processes to ensure security controls are delivered and remain in place.

• Management, training and development of the Health Security Guild Team
• Allocation and management of security resources on AXA Health projects
• Delivery of security projects within the Health Change Portfolio, enhancing our controls and closing new risks, on time and on budget
• Work with the UK Security team to provide consultancy on the security aspects of business goals and plans
• Support development of our Agile Products, and maturing the Product Security Framework
• Assist in producing risk assessments of Group and third‑party tools and platforms, as required
• Liaise with Group, UK CIO and Operating entity architecture teams, including Security architecture, to maintain consistency with group strategy, and to maintain governance over UK IT System
• Act as security subject matter expert to the business and to other members of the Security team as required
• Identification and escalation of governance and risk issues and improvement recommendations in a timely fashion

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 attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events.

We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

• Extensive IT and security experience in a large commercial organisation
• Prior people management experience including the performance management and development of teams
• Strong planning and organisation skills, with a good attention to detail
• Ability to present information concisely and to clearly identify key issues at senior management level
• Strong commercial knowledge: ability to understand and integrate business and security strategies
• Knowledge or experience in the following areas is desirable; ITIL, Cloud Security, Coding and Scripting, Application Security (including DSOMM), Architecture, Networking
• Able to work autonomously to achieve broad organisational objectives
• Good analytical skills and the ability to clearly identify key issues

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

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