Head of Talent Management & Workforce Readiness

This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.  We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.  As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.

At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.

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Talent Development Grade: FHow does this role contribute to our collective success?

This role designs and drives AXIS's talent management and workforce readiness agenda in partnership with HR and business leaders, ensuring the organization has the leadership, skills, capabilities, and talent required to deliver business priorities today and in the future. You will establish and continuously improve the frameworks, processes, and insights that support performance, talent, succession, and workforce decisions across the organization.

This is a talent management role with a workforce readiness component; learning and development experience alone will not meet the requirements. Success will be measured through stronger leadership pipelines, improved workforce readiness, effective talent decisions, and the organization's ability to build the capabilities needed for future growth.

What will you do in this role?
· You will design, drive, and continuously improve AXIS's core talent management processes, including goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, assessments, succession planning, and development planning. You will establish clear frameworks and governance that support high-quality talent decisions and stronger leadership pipelines.
· You will drive workforce readiness efforts by helping the business understand the leadership, skills, capabilities, and talent needed to deliver future priorities. You will assess workforce gaps, use internal and external talent intelligence, and identify actions to build, buy, borrow, reskill, redeploy, or automate capabilities.
· You will identify development needs and priorities through performance, talent, succession, assessment, and workforce planning insights. You will partner with the Head of Learning to ensure development programs and investments address the organization's most important leadership, skill, and capability gaps; this role does not own learning program design or delivery.
· You will partner with business leaders, HR Business Partners, the COO organization, and transformation teams to assess the workforce impact of changes in business strategy, technology, AI, and how work gets done. You will translate those changes into clear recommendations for skills, roles, workforce planning, mobility, succession, and talent investments.
· You will use talent data, workforce intelligence, assessments, and external market insights to identify risks and opportunities and provide practical recommendations to senior leaders. You will monitor the health and effectiveness of talent and workforce practices and use insights to…