Sales & Advisory Enablement Leader - Johannesburg at Marsh

What you can expect:       

Define and execute sales & advisory enablement excellence, through tangible and measurable interventions and aligned to global best practice.

Are you a newly qualified CA(SA) or eagerly awaiting the results of your final examswith a year of experience as an accountant? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Join our team and gain immediate exposure to a purely strategic role at management level. You will have the chance to work closely with senior stakeholders within an international company, making a real impact on its success.

What you will be rewarded with:

• An international well-established company with a strong brand and strong results to match
• Attractive benefits coverage, outstanding learning and mentoring programs, and internal mobility opportunities
• Stable employment and hybrid working model

We will rely on you to:

• Execution of Sales Strategy - supporting sales strategy development, building a sales analytics division, ensuring alignment with key leaders, driving operational excellence, and leading discussions on sales financials
• Talent Management - leading goal setting and business planning, conducting activity and pipeline reviews, and collaborating with leaders to train colleagues in sales skills and value propositions
• Market Orientation - building an industry sales approach, understanding clients' value drivers, creating a sales enablement process, and conducting competitor analysis to stay informed about the competition
• Funnel Management and Forecasting - leading the development of sales financial packs, participating in sales forecasting, analyzing performance, and driving the development of data and analytics to support financial management and drive growth.
• Communicates and reports to senior level colleagues on the territory sales performance, contributing market and product insights and coordinating across sales functions to gain business insights and growth opportunities.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly stakeholders reporting for both Sales and Advisory.

What you need to have:

• Newly qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA)
• Strong strategic thinking and drive
• Agile and energetic
• Thrives in ambiguity and complexity
• Solutionist and Change agent
• Sound knowledge of insurance and business sectors
• Great communication skills, collaborator, influencer.
• Technology savvy with strong MS Office skills (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) non negotiable

Behavioral Competencies:

• Building and maintaining relationships
• Communicating with impact
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Managing resources
• Negotiations
• Planning and organizing
• Service oriented
• Team player