Axis Max Life Insurance Limited, formerly known as Max Life Insurance Company Ltd., is a joint venture between Max Financial Services Limited (“MFSL”) and Axis Bank Limited.
Axis Max Life Insurance offers comprehensive protection and long-term savings life insurance solutions through its multi-channel distribution, including agency and third-party distribution partners. It has built its operations over two decades through a need-based sales process, a customer-centric approach to engagement and service delivery, and a well-trained human capital.
Axis Max Life has been consistently ranked among the best workplaces by the GPTW Institute, reflecting its commitment to creating a positive and empowering work workplace.
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: Job Summary The incumbent will be responsible for translating central strategy into zonal action and ensuring effective execution of business priorities across the zone. The role will drive zonal business governance, monitor business and productivity performance, support P&L; improvement initiatives, facilitate resource deployment decisions, manage strategic stakeholder relationships and provide actionable business intelligence to leadership teams.
The incumbent will act as the nodal point for zonal business reviews, performance discussions and strategic interventions, ensuring that key business priorities are converted into measurable outcomes through disciplined governance and execution.
Key Responsibilities
Relationship Management
- Nodal point of contact for the channel partner for Business relationship management & Ongoing business support engagement with central teams and vertical teams
- Coordinate business planning and performance discussions.
- Facilitate alignment on strategic priorities and execution plans.
Central Strategy & Initiative Deployment
- Drive implementation of centrally defined business priorities and strategic initiatives across assigned zones.
- Translate strategic objectives into actionable zonal plans.
- Monitor execution and adoption of strategic initiatives.
- Identify barriers to execution and drive timely resolution.
- Track business impact of strategic initiatives.
Business Intelligence & Strategic Planning
- Generate analytical insights to support decision making.
- Conduct trend analysis and opportunity assessment.
- Recommend strategic interventions for business improvement.
Escalation Management & Special Projects
- Support resolution of business escalations.
- Lead leadership-requested reviews and analytical studies.
- Drive strategic projects assigned at zonal level.
- Monitor outcomes and implementation effectiveness.
Zonal Business Governance
- Conduct structured governance reviews on business performance and strategic priorities.
- Support leadership reviews involving ZVPs, CRMs and senior management.
Business Performance & P&L; Management
- Monitor performance on premium, activation, productivity, OA, FTD, persistency, product mix and other business metrics.
- Review business performance against plan and commitments.
- Identify growth opportunities and business risks.
- Support zonal profitability and productivity improvement initiatives.
- Recommend corrective actions for underperformance.
Resource Deployment & Productivity Management
- Evaluate deployment effectiveness across geographies.
- Identify resource gaps and productivity improvement opportunities.
- Support manpower planning and deployment decisions.
- Review productivity trends and intervention effectiveness.
Key Competencies/ skill required
Strategic Planning
Business Performance Management
P&L; Understanding
Business Analytics
Stakeholder Management
Governance Management
Executive Communication
Problem Solving
Strategic Execution
Presentation Skills
Desired qualification and experience
- Management post graduate from Tier 1 B Schools with 2-3 years of experience
- Incumbent should be currently working in strategy development for Financial Services
- Experience of translating strategy into delivery through plans, programs, people and culture
- Highly analytical and comfortable working with complex data sets
- Detailed understanding of financial forecast & modelling built around multiple assumptions/variables
- Play a ‘challenger’ role and maintain independence while supporting channel strategies at the same time
- Ability to communicate effectively, connect and inspire colleagues at all levels of the organization
- Sharp prioritization and delegation while working with multiple priorities