AXA XL Graduate Program UK 2022

The AXA XL Graduate Program is a structured and immersive two-year global program for graduates seeking real responsibility and the opportunity to make a difference.  The Program enables you to fast-track an international career and develop your leadership and technical skills through exposure in the leading Property & Casualty (P&C) insurer worldwide. The Program combines job rotations into a variety of business areas including an international assignment, training and development programs, study towards industry-recognised professional qualifications, and involvement in inclusion and diversity, climate and sustainability initiatives.

We launched the Graduate Program in the UK in 2009 and took it global in 2012 to bolster the ranks of new talent in the Company. The Program supports you to gain the necessary skills to become a future leader in the AXA Group. Throughout the Program, you will have the opportunity to play an integral role on high-impact initiatives across our global business.

Business Rotations

The AXA XL Graduate Program offers a robust rotational element, enabling you to spend time in different areas of our global insurance and reinsurance businesses. This will give you an understanding of how the Company operates as a whole and how our teams connect to other functions and will help you make contacts at all levels of the organisation. You will complete three to four-month rotations in each major business area and before you complete the program, we will ask you about your career preferences and match it with our business needs to determine your final placement.

Leveraging the global footprint of AXA, all graduates will complete an international assignment outside of their home country. You will experience working in a different culture, living outside of your comfort zone, and perhaps even learning a new language.

Learning and Development Programs

Joining a new company can be a bit daunting, so to help you to settle in you’ll have guidance from our senior leaders and industry-recognised risk experts.  The program starts with an orientation, where you’ll learn more about yourself, the insurance industry, AXA XL and your graduate journey. Throughout the year, you will participate in various learning and development programs such as in-person training, e-Learning, conferences and workshops to develop your competencies in the areas of influencing and negotiating, communication, business acumen, project management, etc. You will be given the chance to network with senior leaders in the Company and even present to them a strategic business project that you will lead during your rotations.

JUMPSTART your future with AXA

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.

Share your talent

Here’s what we’re looking for

• Final-year students or graduates in any field/course with a record of academic success and high degree of involvement in extra-curricular activities.
• Creative thinker, curious and ready to challenge the status quo.
• An appetite for achievement and building an international career.
• Fluent in more than one language, including English.

We’re interested not just in your past achievements and current skills but also in your potential.  We use a competency-based approach in our application process to help us get a fuller picture of who you are. We see strengths as areas of work that energise you, come naturally to you and lead to exceptional performance. We see competencies as activities that you can perform successfully (whether or not you feel passionate about them).  Throughout the application and interview process, think about the kinds of work you truly love, how you manage tasks you don’t enjoy so much and the areas where you’ve been told you excel. Also help us understand your interpersonal relating style, your approach to problem-solving and how you make decisions.

Application process

Online registration, CV and cover letter: the first stage of the process is to register your details, upload your CV with cover letter. This will capture your biographical, educational and work experience details.  Please submit CV and cover letter containing your answer (max 300 words) to the application questions (below) online. 

• Why have you chosen to apply to AXA XL, and what interests you about the program you have applied to?
• What foreign languages do you speak?

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

• First-level interview: this is a strengths-based telephone interview with our Talent Acquisition team (November to January).
• Second-level interivew: this includes a panel interview with the graduate program manager and HR leadership (February).
• Assessment center: the final stage of the process is a business case presentation designed to assess your behavioral skills and competencies. A panel of senior executives around the world will observe how you will solve real-life business problems and ultimately to determine if there’s an opportunity for you in the program and the organization (March).

The deadline for submission of your online application form for this role is 9th January, 2022. However, we highly recommend that you submit your application to us as soon as possible as we progress applications as they are received and may make job offers before the application deadline. The start of the program is September 2022.

Corporate Responsibility

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy – Our Impact. Our Future. – aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business – climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group’s purpose to “Act for human progress by protecting what matters.”.

• Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.
• Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.

For more information please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.

Inclusion & Diversity

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can 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+, race/ethnicity, disability and inclusion with 25 Chapters around the globe
• Sponsorship initiative to develop and advance high-potential talent from underrepresented groups
• 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.

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.