Security Strategy Lead

**Job Description**:
**About AXA**

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

**About the entity**

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

**Job position pitch**

**Where will you be in the organization?**

**The division**

You will join the Group Security division, defining the security standards to be applied by AXA entities, overseeing the overall security posture across the Group and providing centralized services to support entities (Crisis Management, Security Operations Centre, etc.).

Throughout AXA Group, the security community represents composed of 1000 security professionals, working daily to protect our customers, operations, brand and people. To achieve this, we have gathered our three security disciplines: Information Security, Physical Security and Operational Resilience.

Our main missions:

- Monitor the Security Threat Landscape
- Define and oversee Security Standards and Strategy implementation across the Group
- Drive local security objectives with C-Level executive (COO, CIO, CTO, CFO ) of AXA entities
- Ensure the security of Group Operations as an entity
- Provide centralized security services and products to AXA entities

AXA Group Security is divided in 4 main blocks:

- Corporate functions (Group Mandate) : Security Advisory and Standards, Security Governance, Security Risk & Assurance, Security Strategy and Awareness
- CyberDefense (Group security services and products provider)
- Group Operations Security (Security of the hosting entity)
- Corporate Chief Security Officers (Oversight of entities’ security) : Corporate Centre, European Markets, International Markets

**The department / team**

The** Strategy and Awareness** team is setting up the vision based on research and anticipation & raising security awareness.

The Security Strategy and Awareness team oversees:

- **
Security Threat Anticipation & Research**:Bring the outside in and the inside out
- ** Security Strategy**: Drive security beyond resilience to become a partner in trust
- ** Security Awareness & Behavior**: Disseminate and make adopt the security culture

**About the job**

**Job purpose**
- **Contribute to the Security Strategy design and operation (85% of the job)**

AXA Group Security has the mandate to define the Security Strategy of AXA and review the local security strategies to make sure they are aligned and adequate to meet the group requirements. Today AXA has decided to accelerate the effort on the smaller entities of the group and this effort will require additional resources inside Security strategy and awareness team.

Today AXA is also started working on the next strategic cycle 2027 - 2029 where we will need to learn from previous strategic cycles and pivot to serve the new business and IT ambition.

The position will have a key impact on the design and update of AXA security strategy:
- Help local entities deliver their security strategy but also pivot to help the larger entities better strategize on how they cover their subsidiaries
- Deep dive on certain strategic topics like how to secure cloud, how to secure the health business, etc.
- Engage with different levels of stakeholders (business stakeholders, external analysts and experts, technology firms, governance bodies, external forums and peers) to ensure a homogeneous and right level of security in the full perimeter of the organization
- Support the development and delivery of the security strategy of the group: In addition to prioritize the