Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose 
Understand, analyse and optimize sales and distribution strategies across Discovery Health and Discovery Vitality using industry knowledge, analytical expertise and strategic insights. The candidate will be required to:

• Perform analysis to inform distribution and new business strategies.
• Transform unstructured data into strategic insights to inform key business decisions.
• Storyboard and communicate complex information in a coherent, succinct manner.

Areas of responsibility  
Market expertise:

• Detailed analysis, technical modelling and desktop research covering company performance, product utilisation, sales trends and competitor landscape to guide the business on future growth opportunities.

Sales and distribution leadership:

• Responsible for analysis which supports strategic insights, ideas, and assists in finding solutions to address sales and distribution priorities within Discovery Health
• Contribute to research and development through a deep understanding of the competitor space and market dynamics. o Responsible for the successful product positioning and the associated analytic support of Discovery Health and Discovery Vitality’s annual enhancements and product launches

Broker leadership:

• Engage with distribution channels and brokers as a key decision maker to complex problems faced by Discovery Health and Discovery Vitality
• Position newly launched Health and Vitality products via nationwide webinars and roadshows to brokers
• Develop strong relationships with brokers as the key voice on distribution sentiment and product delivery.

Thought leadership:

• Produce white papers and thought leadership (through analysis of both internal and external data along with desktop research) to elevate the Discovery Health and Discovery Vitality brands and to support product positioning for the Discovery Health and Discovery Vitality’s annual enhancements and product launches

Competencies

• Self-starter with a strong drive for excellence
• Strategic thinker
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Management and leadership skills
• Competencies of storyboarding, presentation preparation and data visualisation is advantageous

Qualifications /Experience

• Qualified Actuary/ Actuarial analyst, with a minimum of two years’ work experience.
• Management consulting experience is advantageous.

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Job Purpose

• The purpose of the IT Security Specialist role is to monitor the threat landscape and to select/implement security countermeasures to secure information assets within the Banking environment. The key responsibilities include management of Privilege Access Management System, Public Key Infrastructure, and certificate lifecycle management. The IT Security Specialist will install, configure, and manage IT security technologies and processes to provide preventive, detective, and response capabilities to the organisation. The role requires a flexible specialist who can support other security domains in addition to the key areas. The role is looking for an experienced PAM specialist with knowledge of PKI and certificate management.

 Areas of responsibility include but are not limited to :

Operational Support

• Monitor reputable information sources (e.g. threat reports, security blogs) to keep abreast of the threat landscape and risks relevant to the bank.
• Monitor security technology roadmaps and recommend feature enhancements or new solutions to address business risks/requirements.
• Analyse and design appropriate security solutions to enable business requirements.
• Troubleshoot security technology failures/problems as required.
• Provide technical expertise and oversight of security technology design, configuration, deployment, and documentation, such as PAM, HSM, PKI, Certificate Management, and secure file exchange technologies. 
• Perform monitoring and analysis of network activity to identify suspicious or undesirable behaviour, by defining and implementing monitoring rules around critical security controls.
• Daily provisioning of Privileged access and troubleshooting of access related issues.
• Periodic reviews of Access privileges to critical systems.
• Daily support of access and privilege security systems
• Daily review and investigations of Privilege related alerts/ incidents.
• Daily monitoring and management of internal and external certificates.
• Management of other Access Management systems such as Active Directory, Azure AD etc
• Undertake incident analysis, tracking, recording, and response, and provision of evidence data during security incidents.
• Interface with IT stakeholders and ensure that the hosting environment meets security and service requirements.
• Participate in major technology infrastructure initiatives.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures for the security environment.
• Be available during standby and scheduled changes after hours support.
• Adhere to Discovery Bank policies to ensure a secure operating environment.
• Performs root cause analysis, performance tuning, optimisation and other service improvement activities ensuring optimal security environment performance. Continuously identifies areas for improvement for efficiency.
• Log and act on all security incidents according to business expectations and escalate all critical statuses and issues as well as provides recommendations.                               
• Proactively identifies interconnected problems and develops and models alternative solutions and suggests contingency plans to resolve value chain conflicts.

Programme and Project Support.

• Provides support to the Programme Office in the build and implementation lifecycle of new services and changes to related services including support for non-production environments.
• Ensure that appropriate security countermeasures are implemented as recommended to ensure projects are delivered as per schedule.
• Ability to lead and drive security projects to full delivery and operationalisation.

Compliance, Governance, Risk and Control Processes

• Liaise with Change and Release Management in the planning of changes and releases of services in scope.
• Participate in Business Continuity plans for services in scope.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery design and planning activities to ensure access to Business services in the event of a major outage and partake in regular DR tests.

Other

• Provides input to periodic operational meetings and reports according to agreed intervals (e.g. daily, weekly, and monthly reports).
• Identifies, documents, and publishes knowledge for sharing with internal staff. Participate in the technical knowledge review processes and in ensuring the quality of published content.
• Works with internal colleagues to ensure they have the appropriate information and knowledge at hand to be successful in what they do.
• Ensures that tickets in the ITSM tool are attended to all times and reflect the correct status.
• Define and influence relationships and service level agreements made with internal and external stakeholders.

Education and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• At least 5 years’ working experience in Identity and Access Management or Privilege Management Systems.
• At least 2 years working experience managing PKI/HSMs
• Knowledge of Certificate Management an added advantage.
• Relevant Information Security certification (e.g. CISA, CISM, CISSP) an advantage.
• Previous experience in the banking or financial services industry will be advantageous.

Technical Skills or Knowledge

• PAM
• PKI
• HSMs
• Certificate Management
• IAM
• AD/Azure AD
• Secure File Gateways
• Windows and Linux OS
• Technical support strategies and approaches.
• Technical documentation creation and maintenance.
• Incident Management and Problem Management procedures

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Key Purpose

• The main purpose of Commodity specialist is to implement sourcing strategies for CRES services that will drive the objectives of increased savings and inclusive procurement while adhering to governance and managing the objectives of the internal stakeholders. The specialist will effectively manage the assigned portfolio and departmental objectives. An important aspect of this role is optimizing cost efficiencies, supplier performance and supporting Discovery’s business plans.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Administration

• Chairing the weekly Procurement forum which review procurement requests for purchase orders.
• Capture purchase orders and assign for approval.
• Matching and receipting of orders for payment to ensure payments are made in required 30 days.
• Creating catalogues for service providers against which they can purchase items within the portfolio.

B-BBEE

• Engaging vendors that do not meet the minimum B-BBEE requirements to agree on a plan to improving their B-BBEE levels.
• Scanning the market to identify vendors that we could onboard to help us reach our shortfalls.
• Recommending vendors to take part in RFP and other sourcing processes.

Contract Management

• Work with business to ensure 80% of spend with suppliers is under contract.
• Engaging with suppliers for contracts renewal prior to expiration.

Managed Spend under procurement

• Meeting with business areas to see how we can influence and increase spend within the areas.
• Discussing the procurement policy and process with the various business areas to use this as part of the compliance.

Savings

• Developing category strategies that will assist in reaching the required savings targets.
• Recording savings achieved into the relevant registers once approved and signed off by business areas.
• Meeting with vendors to see how we can reduce our overall costs and Total cost of ownership (TCO).

Supplier Relationship Management

• Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with strategic suppliers to identify changes in the environment that could impact on Discovery.
• Where suppliers are not meeting the required SLA’s to meet with vendors to provide a remedial plan on how to rectify this.

Reporting

• Development and generate monthly, weekly, adhoc reports for business units and Procurement Management Team

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Must be able to operate independently and under pressure
• Able to perform multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities and to deal with changing priorities while maintaining personal effectiveness
• Strong negotiation skills at all levels
• Must have a strong understanding of contract management and risk mitigation
• Ability to communicate (orally and in writing) and be responsive to internal customer requirements
• Must be decisive and driven by deadlines
• Must be willing to challenge ideas and provide suggestions which are in the best interests of the company
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal customers and other procurement professionals
• Must exhibit sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating and negotiating with internal customers and suppliers

Education and Experience

• Qualification in Supply Chain preferred, preferably CIPS accfedited.
• 5 years procurement experience, with at least 2 years a commodity specialist
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing sourcing strategies which resulted in a world-class supply base that continually exceeded cost, quality, delivery and service objectives.