Insurance Manager
at Optimal Growth Technologies
Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 14 Oct, 2024 | Not Specified | 14 Jul, 2024 | N/A | Business Acumen,Telco,Financial Services,Fintech | No | No |
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Description:
INSURANCE MANAGER
- Your role will be to provide strategic leadership, industry expertise and portfolio management to create insurance products in a telecommunication environment.
- You will develop, coordinate, and implement roadmap for bringing innovative and efficient insurance solutions and will provide highly specialized expertise working with markets.
- In addition, you will manage and coordinate key stakeholders to define the regulatory requirements, product capabilities, roadmap, and Go-To-Market needed for the insurance products to be deliver with a differentiated customer experience.
- You will also be required to engage technology providers and third-party experts to inform the strategy and roadmaps to meet/exceed the objectives and desired results.
- You will bring a wealth of insurance experience to enhance the creation and development cutting-edge insurance products.
- This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between telco capabilities and the insurance opportunities that exist.
Champion Insurance Management Product Strategy & Execution:
- Own the vision for the insurance portfolio
- Build business cases for different insurance products.
- Drive the Insurance roadmap incorporating industry and customer research to create transformative product offerings.
- Be a customer advocate; ensure the voice of customers across different segments is central to new product development.
- Evaluate different vendor capabilities and help specify product design features.
- Rally product creation colleagues to drive timely results developers, business analysts, architects, delivery managers, operations support, etc.
Spearhead Partnerships to Drive Innovation:
- Define partnership strategy for Insurance solutions including with tech providers, brokers, insurance , consumer education advocates, and internal stakeholders .
- Drive business development with relevant 3rd parties, negotiate key commercial and product terms and support legal on contracting
- Build “trusted advisor” relationship with business leaders
- Offer strategic support on the Insurance strategy, negotiations and business case
- Co-develop launch and go to market plans with local product managers to drive uptake and engagement
- Drive commercial prioritisation of the product roadmaps balancing requirements from multiple markets and building consensus where needed to address risk of fragmentation from local partnerships
- Act as a key resource to socialise & educate internal stakeholders about insurance through webinars, demos and onsite visits as needed
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- 4 years of professional experience with experience at an insurance product development in banking bank, telco or other relevant digital business
- Strong knowledge of mobile money, fintech and financial services
- Understanding of regulatory environment and future direction of regulation
- Analytical bent of mind, structured thinker with strong business acumen
- Results-driven self-starter
- Solid influencing and negotiation skills
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Bachelors degree required, a Masters degree in a related field preferred
- Willingness to travel frequently
Responsibilities:
Please refer the Job description for details
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Insurance
Banking / Insurance
Insurance
Graduate
Proficient
1
Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa