Consultant: Product Management at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

Output/Core Tasks:

• Pricing of and obtaining actuarial approval for Sanlam’s South African individual life and employee benefit products.
• Liaising with relevant stakeholders in the business, with the aim of helping them to launch products which are financially sound, which address real client needs and which doesn’t expose the business to undue risk 
• Documentation of results and supporting the Actuarial valuations and development teams with the model implementation of new products
• Carrying out ad-hoc tasks and investigations to understand profit drivers of products

What will make you successful in this role?

Requirements:

• Qualified or nearly qualified (max 2 exams outstanding) actuary, with preference of experience in the life insurance sector

Personal attributes and competencies:

• Experience of Life insurance products would be an advantage
• Proficiency at MS Office and Prophet, or willingness to learn
• Good verbal and written communication skills to manage relationships with business stakeholders
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking
• Ability to work independently, take initiative and meet deadlines

Qualification and Experience

• Degree and have passed 13-15 subjects and minimum of 3 years experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Actuarial Problem Solving
• Issues management
• Business knowledge
• Business analysis

Personal Attributes

• Self-development - Contributing independently
• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Nimble learning - Contributing independently
• Tech savvy - Contributing independently