Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia. Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centred on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper.
What will you do?
Work in this job family is focused on delivering measurable business results/outputs through direction and control of financial, material and human resources. Performance measures are clear, visible and direct and roles are typically primarily accountable for operations or revenue generating activities.
What will make you successful in this role?
People
- Translates and communicates implications of corporate vision for own area
- Creates a purpose or vision for their part of the organization that supports larger organizational goals and provides unique insight on this part of the organization
- Identifies people and organizational requirements to enable achievement of short to medium term business plan results
- Ensures the right resources are in place with appropriate support to achieve medium term business results
- Monitors results and reallocates or reorganizes resources to improve performance
- Ensures the right people are in place with the appropriate support to accomplish annual business plan
- Creates a positive organizational climate to energize direct reports in order to minimize turnover, absenteeism, labour disputes, and other work disruption and maximize productivity of employees
- Develops annual business plan and secures resources necessary to achieve identified objectives consistent with appropriate consideration of medium term requirements
- Scans the external environment in order to identify and take advantage of immediate business opportunities to improve results within defined area of responsibility
- Determines systems and procedures to ensure optimal use of resources
- Determines priorities for resource allocation and deployment to optimize the productivity of internal resources in delivering results
- Establishes performance expectations and resource allocations consistent with desired results
- Directs, controls, and optimizes resources to meet established objectives and deliver agreed results
- Identifies and drives changes which will improve effectiveness and efficiency doing a range of things better
- Provides periodic reports on performance against plan and progress on key results. Adjusts plan and resource allocation in line with changed priorities
- Represents/reports customer viewpoint upward to the larger organization
- Plan attainment
- Productivity and motivation/morale of workforce
- Development of critical skills and capabilities
- Responsiveness to changed plans/demands, both short and medium term
- B. Comm/similar or relevant insurance-related diploma
- AIISA or FIISA or similar qualification
- Broad financial services/ insurance background
- People management experience
- Experience in managing underwriting performance, growth and sustainability.
- Experience in operating at a Management level in the short-term insurance industry
- Experience in conducting high-level (client) negotiations
Interpersonal savvy - Contributing through others
Decision quality - Contributing through others
Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
Builds effective teams - Contributing through others
Build a successful career with us
Were all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
