About the position
JOB PURPOSE
The Head of Department for Technical Product Marketing, will be a Fellow Actuary (FASSA registered) or close to completing all Actuarial Examinations, and will be responsible for sales and distribution, leadership and strategy, leading a weekly product and distribution committee, responsibility for Health Product launches and post-launch training, and ownership of all market insights, broker communication, opportunity analytics and thought leadership.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Education and Experience
- Qualified Actuary or close to completion of Actuarial exams (required)
- Fellow of the Actuarial Society of SA (required)
- 5+ years’ experience in healthcare preferably or within broader financial services sector (consulting, marketing, product management and/or pricing roles)
- Management consulting experience, R&D experience, Client-facing experience
- Leadership (required)
- Communication (Verbal and Written)
- Sales and Distribution expertise (required)
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Self-starter with a strong drive for excellence
- Strategic thinker
- Exceptional analytical skills
- Strong communication skills
- Management and leadership skills
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to
- Sales and distribution leadership and strategy:
- Chair of health engagement steercom, responsible for retention strategy development, curating and deployment.
- Standing responsibilities of critical business forums, including Health Go-to-Market Steercom, R&D Steercom, Manco
- Full ownership of content, positioning, curating and delivery of the Launch and post-launch distribution for Health
- SA CEO engagement to position all R&D and innovation updates for the year
- Development and delivery of highly technical and well-positioned collateral to support the rollout of the launch
- Comprehensive post-launch training schedule, presentation and engagement with all distribution channels to ensure optimal product uplift.
- Manage actuarial and statistical support for:
- Effective product positioning.
- demonstrating thought leadership in product design and development; and
- differentiated marketing and sales collateral
- Stay at the forefront of industry insights, including:
- Competitor intelligence, through product comparisons and data sheets
- Industry intelligence, through collation and analysis of market position, as well as local and international trends
- Investigations to support R&D decision-making and strategy
- Provide technical marketing support for various sales and distribution channels, including:
- Maintaining up-to-date technical marketing collateral and tools
- Ownership of all technical sales and positioning requirements
- Contributing to continuous professional development of distribution support channels
- Ownership of new business proposals, tenders and employer executive engagement
- End-to-end coordination and delivery of all new business key opportunities
Desired Skills:
- Actuarial Analysis
- Analytics
- Distribution
- Healthcare
- Leadership
- Management
- Marketing
About The Employer:
One of the largest Blue-chip Financial Services Companies (JSE listed), that has various business verticals within the financial services sector, with a fast-paced and dynamic environment that enables smart, self-driven people to excel, and thereby not only achieving financial success, but also igniting meaningful development for its people and adding value within our society.
