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Sanlam

Business Project Manager

Johannesburg

FULL TIME

December 2, 2024

About the Company

Santam is the leading short-term insurer in South Africa. Along with its subsidiaries, the business transacts all classes of short-term insurance. Santam is a large, diversified, and transforming company and our success is rooted in our passion for our clients. Everything we do is centred on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper.

Job Description

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring strategic alignment of initiatives for Outsourced Business (OB) by the System Platform Providers (SPP’s) and the Binder Holders. They will also be responsible for Relationship management between Santam and the SPP’s through frequent engagements; including supporting the Outsourced Business and Business Integration teams. This role will report to the Manager: Outsourced Business Operations.

Principle accountabilities

Responsible for ensuring strategic alignment of initiatives for OB by the SPP and the Binder Holder.
Responsible for managing relationships between Santam and the SPP’s through frequent engagements.
Responsible for supporting the OB and Business Integration teams. Central point of contact at Santam for all SPP’s.
Maintaining and reporting on initiative backlog. Drive the implementation of various initiatives through the SPP and Binder Holder.
Compiling steerco pack for monthly meetings with the SPP’s. Chair, facilitate and minute the compulsory monthly Steerco meetings held with business.
Prioritisation of new initiatives with the Outsourced Business Committee.
Driving completion of initiatives timely and within budget.
Attend monthly prioritisation meetings and provide feedback on the implementation of various initiatives to the Outsourced Business team.
Responsible for managing the SPP initiative budget and estimation management; review of work orders and costing.
Reviewing of invoices against work orders and facilitation of invoice payment.
Attend meetings with Binders Holders, SPPs and Santam business teams relating to new deployments, migrations, issue resolution and provide guidance relating to requirements that may be required.
Prepare for quarterly planning meetings and drive the discussion and agreement to the initiatives.
Assist in driving delivery of data from the SPPs and Astute.
Assist in driving completeness and accurate data for Outsourced Business.

Qualifications and Experience

A tertiary qualification in Business Management
Higher Certificate in Insurance
Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management

Skills

Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point
Qlik View and Qlik sense
JIRA
Confluence
Understanding of the OB model would be an advantage

Competencies

Ability to build and maintain relationships
Communication and strong facilitation skills
Resilience
Attention to detail and strong analytical skills
Good project management skills
Change management skills
Innovative and creative skills
Negotiating skills
Ability to convince and influence
Ability to drive project time-line

Build a successful career with us

We’re 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 five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as Mi Way 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.

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