Business Consultant at Sanlam Group

Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

What will you do?

• Assist with investigations; propose and evaluate solutions and provide insights into strategy.
• Develop ideas into concepts to realise the strategic objectives.
• Initiate, design and deliver change through the management of investigations along the change life cycle.
• Ensure that the case for change is made and decided.
• Outcomes agreed and costs and benefits quantified and included in Business Cases.
• Define the new Service Offering (value proposition) in terms of customer, products, service and channels to realise the strategic intent.
• Define and design market appropriate Business Models. Customer segmentation, value propositions, client engagement models and new internal capabilities.
• Design, integrate and deliver changes to the Operating Model (business processes, organisation structures, interfaces, locations, external relations, information, technology) to enable the Service Offering and deliver strategic intent.
• Manage the Business Analysts and any other resources assigned to the investigation including those resources leading the IT change sub-projects.
• Assist business and technical designers in understanding design choices and business consequences of those choices and provide recommendations to preserve integrity of the overall solution.
• Lead CX focused innovation teams to create competitive and differentiated products, processes, and services.
• Design and lead RFI and RFP processes.
• Ensure that investigation milestones, deliverables and outcomes are achieved.
• Act as custodian of the Business Architecture standards and methods.
• Ensure maintenance of the design blueprints.
• Ensure reusability of models, patterns, and designs

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification

• Degree or diploma, preferably business or IT related

Experience
And Knowledge

• At least 5 years’ experience in Business Architecture and/or Management Consulting and/or leading multi-discipline change projects
• Knowledge /experience within the Life Assurance industry (or in broader Financial Services industry)
• Understanding of ongoing perspective of the strategic issues facing the Life Assurance/ Financial Services industry
• Ability to articulate complex or technical concepts and issues in business terms
• Management style that accommodates both strategic / big-picture and detail work
• Ability to manage specialist and multi-discipline resources
• Understanding of / experience in Project Management methodologies and Business/Operating Modelling methodologies and standards. This includes both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies.