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  • Posted: Oct 3, 2025
    Deadline: Dec 30, 2025
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  • Old Mutual Limited (OML) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries.


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    Intermediate Actuarial Specialist: Retail Protection Product Delivery

    Job Description

    The Team: 

    • The Retail Protection Delivery Team is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of new and existing retail protection propositions across the lower and middle-to-high income markets in South Africa. Development support is also provided to our Namibian business.
    • We are passionate about developing simple, yet innovative propositions that are relevant to our customer’s needs, deliver on its promises and ultimately enable our customers to achieve their financial dreams and goals.
    • The Retail Protection Delivery team has an exciting opportunity for an Intermediate Actuarial Specialist. A key focus will be the delivery of major projects and product developments across the South African and Namibian retail market as well as providing ongoing support and product management to Old Mutual’ s retail protection products. The role will support the current product ranges as well as any new and innovative propositions for our retail customers. This includes but will not be limited to Life, Disability, Severe Illness and Funeral Cover.

    Key Result Areas

    • Play a key role in the design and ongoing management of the Retail Protection product range
    • Produce and maintain product specification documents related to the above
    • Manage risk and competitiveness of protections products
    • Provide product support on technical product rules, underwriting and/or claims
    • Incorporate regulatory impacts into retail protection products
    • Work cross-functionally within an Agile team structure to deliver on pre-defined pieces of work and support the technical actuarial aspects of the delivery of solutions including working with teams to break Features into stories and agreeing acceptance criteria.
    • Active involvement in certain team meetings: Feature writing (if required), PI planning, all team meetings such as Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement.

    Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

    • Actuarial student with a minimum of 9 exam credits and 2 years’ actuarial experience
    • Product development experience would be an added advantage
    • Business acumen and negotiation skills
    • Good interpersonal and communication skills
    • Ability to work independently, as well as in a team
    • Ability to work on a wide range of deliverables over a given period of time
    • Good time management to work towards deadlines
    • Competencies
    • Strategy
    • Innovation
    • Leading with Influence
    • Collaboration
    • Customer First
    • Execution
    • Personal Mastery

    Skills

    • Computer Literacy, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Executing Plans, Information Management, Insurance Product Management, Insurance Sales, Legal Practices, Numerical Aptitude, Risk Management
    • Competencies
    • Action Oriented
    • Balances Stakeholders
    • Builds Networks
    • Business Insight
    • Collaborates
    • Communicates Effectively
    • Cultivates Innovation
    • Decision Quality

    Education

    • NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

    Closing Date

    • 11 October 2025

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Old Mutual on oldmutual.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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