Client and Distribution Leader, Qld

**Job Description**:
**Client & Distribution Leader**

Brisbane, Queensland

A Client & Distribution Leader is responsible for managing and expanding client and broker relationships to support underwriting profitability and drive growth and retention. This role is pivotal in delivering AXA XL’s value proposition and enhancing its market reputation.

**What you’ll be DOING**

What will your essential responsibilities include?

**Market engagement**
- Build and maintain strong tripartite relationships with clients and brokers.
- Develop and execute market engagement strategies for the Queensland market.
- Align AXA XL solutions with client and broker needs.
- Drive cross-sell opportunities, product density, and strategic growth initiatives.
- Contribute to financial targets including GWP, new business, rate change, and retention.

**Clients focus**
- Manage end-to-end onboarding for new clients.
- Ensure top-tier service delivery in collaboration with underwriting and functional teams.
- Promote AXA XL’s product solutions and co-innovate with clients and brokers.

**Data-Driven Relationship Management**
- Competence in interpreting large data sets to inform strategic decisions, identify trends, and personalize client solutions. This will include leveraging data from our broker partners and market insights to personalize engagement strategies.
- Use performance metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of broker engagement initiatives, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement of client relationship strategies.

You will report to Head of Distribution, Marketing & Communications, Australia

**What you will BRING**

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

- Commercial Acumen / Relationship Building: Engages with c-suite executives and brokers, manages stakeholders and conflict, and negotiates for client interests.
- Business & Insurance Acumen: Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge, and expertise in the core principles, practices, and dynamics of the insurance industry within the broader context of business.
- Financial Acumen: Understands and applies insurance financial principles, assessing impacts on bottom-line and P&L.
- Data-Driven Decision Making / Strategic Solutioning: Simplifies complex issues, creates solutions, and uses data to support decision-making.
- Business Planning: Set targets, objectives, action plans and manages / monitors action items.
- Industry and Market Knowledge: Understands the inner workings of their client’s businesses and the industries they operate in.
- Technical Product Expertise: Knowledge of global insurance functions and growth trends, using technical expertise to advocate for client needs in solution design

**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.

**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

**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 an