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About the Role

The Chief of Staff to the Group COO serves as the strategic execution partner to the Group COO, ensuring alignment, execution discipline, and measurable value delivery across AXIS's Operations, Data & Analytics, Technology, AI, Transformation, Architecture, and Information Security portfolios. This role converts strategy into action by driving portfolio governance, operating cadence, value realization, cross-functional execution, and executive decision support.

Responsibilities

Shape and manage the Group COO's enterprise agenda and strategic priorities.
Integrate Operations, Technology, Data & Analytics, AI, and Transformation into a unified operating model and execution roadmap.
Surface key trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and recommendations for decision-making.
Maintain oversight of the COO portfolio, including investment priorities, benefits realization, execution health, and resource allocation.
Ensure major initiatives have clear business outcomes, ownership, success metrics, and accountability.
Challenge initiatives that are not delivering measurable business value.
Drive coordination across complex cross-functional initiatives.
Resolve interdependencies, delivery obstacles, and organizational barriers.
Ensure transformation efforts produce sustainable business outcomes rather than activity-based progress.
Act as the COO's integration point across Data & Analytics, Technology, AI, Architecture, and Operations.
Ensure investments are aligned to underwriting advantage, operational effectiveness, scalability, and business growth.
Support responsible AI adoption, governance, workforce readiness, and value realization.
Partner with Operations and Underwriting leadership to improve capacity, efficiency, resilience, service quality, and scalability.
Drive process modernization, workflow redesign, automation, and AI-enabled operating model improvements.
Support AXIS's objective of increasing underwriting capacity without proportionate increases in operational cost or headcount.
Operate the management cadence for the COO organization, including strategic reviews, investment governance, risk reviews, and performance management.
Maintain visibility of operational, technology, cyber, AI, third-party, and execution risks.
Track and coordinate significant audit, regulatory, control, and remediation commitments.
Prepare the Group COO for ExCo, Board, and executive leadership discussions.
Develop concise, decision-oriented materials, recommendations, and executive-level analyses.
Ensure consistent messaging across the COO portfolio.

Requirements

Senior leadership experience in Operations, Strategy, Transformation, Technology, Data & Analytics, AI, or Enterprise Program Leadership.
Experience operating within a complex, regulated financial services or insurance environment.
Proven ability to lead large-scale cross-functional initiatives and influence senior executives without direct authority.
Strong commercial, financial, operational, and strategic acumen.
Working knowledge of technology, data, AI, governance, risk, and organizational design.
Enterprise thinker with strong business judgment.
Strategic, outcome-oriented, and execution-focused.
Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong financial and value-realization mindset.
Ability to challenge constructively and drive accountability.
Trusted advisor capable of operating effectively with senior leadership and the Board.

Skills

Operations
Strategy
Transformation
Technology
Data & Analytics
AI
Enterprise Program Leadership
Financial services
Insurance
Cross-functional initiatives
Executive influence
Commercial acumen
Financial acumen
Operational acumen
Strategic acumen
Technology knowledge
Data knowledge
AI knowledge
Governance knowledge
Risk knowledge
Organizational design knowledge
Business judgment
Executive communication
Stakeholder management
Value realization
Constructive challenging
Accountability driving
Board interaction

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior leadership

Salary/Compensations

$225,000 to $275,000

Benefits

Competitive target incentive compensation
Medical plans for you and your family
Health and wellness programs
Retirement plans
Tuition reimbursement
Paid vacation

About the Company

AXIS Capital is 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 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.

Equal Opportunity

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.