Axa Climate

AXA Climate’s purpose is to make regenerative business universal.

Reducing our negative impact on the planet is not enough. Our collective challenge is to switch from extractive companies to regenerative companies. To that end, we are transforming our business models, our organizations and our collective missions. And this transformation movement drives us.

We are changing the paradigm: our companies are living beings, nested in the living world. To serve this mission we have four lines of business:

- Training: digital and scientific content that gets all employees engaged by giving them skills and tools
- Consulting: having an impact at the local level through concrete adaptation actions
- Insurance and financing: securing those who adapt and have an impact
- Job description

With a strong expertise in modeling climate risks, AXA Climate is investing on Nature protection (understanding and modelling the links between climate and nature, quantify biodiversity impacts and dependencies, boost the green transition, etc).

AXA Climate is looking for a project leader who will develop and close a pipeline of deals related insurance of risk related to the carbon voluntary carbon market and more specifically on natural-climate solutions.

The mission will include developing a strong network of clients, building and closing a deal pipeline but also managing efficiently most of our risk carbon related projects. This mission will develop in parallel to our quantitative team which will support on the data, actuarial and pricing sides when needed.

Main Responsibilities:
Working closely with the Agriculture/Forestry Insurance Domain and in partnership with the Nature-based Solutions Domain, the Carbon Insurance Project leader will:
- Create a portfolio of clients for carbon insurance products- Develop the expertise and build an offer according to the market appetite
- Contribute to building a network on the VCM
- Find new leads and ability to transform the opportunity into client- Manage carbon risk related projects:
- Evaluate and validate partnerships with model and risk providers
- Map on-going activities and manage project timelines
- Participate to the construction of our risk management carbon strategy
- Define Objectives and Key Results associated to projects and strategy- Design new insurance products to cover risks related to investments into Natural climate Solutions- Have a strong entrepreneurial attitude with willingness to make things happen
- Collaborate with experts to test other sources of data: satellite, new providers,
- Identify key issues surrounding risk and propose solutions
- Explain technical concepts and share modeling approaches with team

Preferred experience

**Education**:

- Agriculture or Environmental Engineering background or
- Top Business / Engineering school with a focus on sustainability

Competencies:

- Entrepreneur, business oriented, good at negotiation
- Soft skills: Autonomy, Integrity, Team spirit
- Project management: ability to sell and to secure deal delivery from A to Z
- Strong understanding of the carbon voluntary market, including standards and main actors
- Good scientific skills: analytical, statistics, probabilities

Experience / Background:

- A minimum of 3 years of professional experiences with an international background
- A previous experience in the Voluntary Carbon Market is important, having an existing network would significantly help.
- An experience in consulting or as a sales would be appreciated
- A previous experience in the insurance sector is a plus but not required

Languages
- Fluency in English required
- Other language is appreciated