Head of Talent Management & Workforce Readiness

AXIS•Stamford, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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

Requirements

Deep expertise in talent management, including performance management, talent reviews, assessments, succession planning, and development planning.
Experience translating business strategy and workforce needs into clear talent, skills, capability, and workforce readiness priorities.
Able to influence senior leaders and support decisions using talent data, workforce intelligence, and business insights.
Experience creating practical frameworks, governance, and processes that provide enterprise consistency while meeting different business needs.
Able to assess complex issues, identify risks and opportunities, and turn findings into clear recommendations and actions.
Experience leading change, managing competing priorities, and driving adoption of organization wide initiatives.
Able to lead and develop a team member, manage external partners, and collaborate effectively across HR and the business.
Able to handle sensitive talent, assessment, succession, and workforce information with discretion and sound judgment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with strategic workforce planning, skills strategies, talent intelligence, or workforce transformation.
Experience assessing how AI, automation, and evolving ways of working affect roles, skills, capacity, and talent needs.
Experience using Workday or similar technology to support talent and workforce processes.
Experience selecting, implementing, or governing assessment solutions that support talent and leadership decisions.
Experience in insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated global industry.

Responsibilities

Lead AXIS's core talent management processes, including goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, assessments, succession planning, and development planning.
Establish clear frameworks and governance that support high-quality talent decisions and stronger leadership pipelines.
Lead workforce readiness efforts by helping the business understand the leadership, skills, capabilities, and talent needed to deliver future priorities.
Assess workforce gaps, use internal and external talent intelligence, and identify actions to build, buy, borrow, reskill, redeploy, or automate capabilities.
Identify development needs and priorities through performance, talent, succession, assessment, and workforce planning insights.
Partner with the Head of Learning to ensure development programs and investments address the organization's most important leadership, skill, and capability gaps.
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.
Translate those changes into clear recommendations for skills, roles, workforce planning, mobility, succession, and talent investments.
Use talent data, workforce intelligence, assessments, and external market insights to identify risks and opportunities and provide practical recommendations to senior leaders.
Monitor the health and effectiveness of talent and workforce practices and use insights to improve them over time.
Lead and develop the Talent Operations & HR Business Analyst, manage key external partners, and work across HR and the business to deliver priorities, strengthen manager capability, and drive adoption of talent management and workforce readiness practices.
May also be required to take on additional duties, responsibilities and activities appropriate to the nature of this role.