Careers at Discovery Limited

About the Role

• This is a commercially focused actuarial role for someone who wants to move beyond traditional reserving and valuation work and get their hands into the financial engine of a dynamic, fast-moving business. You will sit within the Vitality Actuarial team and play a central role in keeping the Vitality programme financially sustainable, optimising partner economics, and providing the quantitative rigour behind strategic business decisions.
• What makes this team unique is proximity to impact. Vitality is an analytically led organisation – your models and analysis don’t disappear into a queue; they become the basis for executive decision-making, partner negotiations, and product design. You will work closely with business stakeholders at every level, including directly with the CEO, and you will see the real-world consequences of your work manifest in the programme. Few actuarial roles offer this combination of commercial depth, strategic visibility, and direct line of sight to outcomes.
• If you’re energised by understanding the financial dynamics of a business, identifying opportunities to improve unit economics, and working in an environment that is constantly changing and challenging – this role is built for you. The pace ensures continuous learning and growth; the complexity ensures you will never be bored.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Sustainability

• Own and maintain Vitality’s financial projection models, including annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario analysis.
• Track actual vs. budget performance, investigate variances, and provide clear, actionable commentary to senior leadership.
• Model the financial impact of product changes, pricing decisions, and engagement trends on the programme’s overall sustainability.
• Support the development of long-term financial plans that balance member value with commercial viability. Partner Commercials
• Analyse the economics of Vitality’s partner network (rewards, fitness, retail, travel, and device partners) to assess commercial sustainability and value exchange.
• Build and maintain models to evaluate partner deal structures, pricing, and renegotiation scenarios.
• Provide data-driven input into partner negotiations, quantifying the value Vitality delivers and the cost of partner benefits.
• Monitor partner utilisation and cost trends, flagging risks and opportunities early. Business Optimisation & Deep Dives
• Conduct forensic deep dives into cost drivers, revenue leakage, and engagement economics to identify optimisation opportunities.
• Analyse member behaviour at a granular level to understand the financial implications of engagement patterns, tier migration, and lapse.
• Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and engagement teams to quantify the ROI of initiatives and support prioritisation decisions.
• Propose benefit enhancements and changes to improve ROIs
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools that give stakeholders real-time visibility into financial and operational performance. Actuarial & Strategic Support
• Contribute to the actuarial evidence base underpinning Vitality’s shared-value model, including claims savings attribution and behavioural economics.
• Support ad hoc strategic projects as required by the Head of Vitality Actuarial, Chief Actuary, CFO, Head of Commercial or CEO.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Newly qualified actuary (FASSA or equivalent international qualification).
• Strong academic track record.

Experience

• Actuarial student experience in a financial, commercial, or consulting environment preferred (health insurance, life insurance, banking, or consulting).
• Exposure to budgeting, financial modelling, or commercial analysis is advantageous.
• Experience working with large datasets and translating data into business insights.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel modelling skills (essential).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python is advantageous
• Experience with BI/visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar) is a plus.
• Comfortable building models from scratch and stress-testing assumptions.

Attributes We’re Looking For

• Commercially minded: You think in terms of business outcomes, not just actuarial outputs.
• Curious and tenacious: You love pulling at threads until you understand what’s really driving the numbers.
• Clear communicator: You can distil complex financial analysis into crisp narratives for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership mentality: You take accountability for your work and proactively flag issues and opportunities.
• Collaborative: You thrive working across teams – product, commercial, engagement, and finance – not just within an actuarial silo.
• Thrives on change: You’re energised, not unsettled, by a business that constantly evolves and challenges the status quo.

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Key Purpose:

• Dealing with all benefit and claims queries related to Oncology.

Key Outputs:

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:

• Taking calls and dealing with Oncology queries from Members & Service providers;
• Dealing with queries from franchises, brokers & the public;
• Dealing with all queries through to resolution;
• Admin functions;
• Policy changes to the product;
• Working on Discovery Systems;
• Assisting with escalated queries from brokers and franchises.

Education and Experience:

The following requirements are essential:

• Matric
• MS Office and PC literate;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Excellent administration skills;
• 12 months or more call centre experience

The following are advantageous

• Previous CHO Experience
• Atleast 6 months Discovery Health Call centre experience
• Discovery Health system & product knowledge
• 3 to 6 months consistent on/above par performance in current role.
   

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Key Purpose

• Successful candidates will work closely with our passionate Snr Developers and System Architects to develop and impart technical training with primary focus on Java technologies. The level of training will range from introductory to advanced. It will include learners from Graduate up to Snr Developers. In parallel to the training activities there will always be at least one technology research topic that will enable organizational technology innovation.
• We require strong trainers who understand and can apply the fundamentals of SOA and microservice architectures, demonstrable understanding of OO principles and methodologies.
• Applicants must be team players with the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues in formal and informal settings.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop training materials and prepare for sessions
• Deliver lectures, seminars, practical demonstrations and fieldwork
• Define and mark assignments
• Check and assess work
• Act as a personal tutor to a number of learners
• Supervise learners research
• Taking part in organizational training and continuous professional development
• Carry out administrative tasks such as learners curriculum, schedule, etc…
• Read academic and technology leaders journals
• Write research proposals, papers and other publications
• Attend and contribute to professional conferences and seminars
• Learn continuously on the edge new technologies
• Lead the design and development of one (at a time) complex software engineering project
• Collaborate with senior technical professionals in building new technologies modules
• Provide training reports to Discovery management
• Participate in at least one technical project as a technical lead

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about upskilling and couching people, technology and development
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and cope with multiple concurrent training activities
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements
• Self-starter who takes ownership and accountability, and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Strategic thinker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

• Computer Science Master’s Degree (Doctor’s degree advantageous)
• Additional Certification / Degree for Instructional design or related qualification

Programming or Training  Experience with

• Part or full time lecturing / instructing experience for at least 5 years ( 5+ years Java systems development experience advantageous)
• Technologies knowledge: Java version 11 to 21, Spring/Spring Boot 3, Spring AI, Hibernate/JPA experience, Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge (or similar SQL knowledge), Atlassian product stack, GitLab and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, HashiCorp), Monitoring (monitoring (Dynatrace, Prometheus))
• Formal modelling languages (UML, ArchiMate etc.) , modelling tools (Enterprise Architect),
• Methodologies: Agile including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development
• Advantageous: programming AND training experience
   

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Key Purpose

• Senior Android developer will support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support. 

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

The senior Android developer must have a competent understanding of:

• The system development life cycle and can explain the Java developer role in each stage
• The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
• The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it
• The technologies used and the systems components structure
• The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations 

Senior Android developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates
• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Maintain high standards 
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments within 6 months of being in the position, a senior Android developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.

Personal Attributes and Skills

Behavioral Skills

• Stress Management
• Time management and prioritization
• Creativeness
• Learning orientation
• Negotiation skills
• Innovation
• Clean code thinking

Technical Skills

• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Solution Architecture
• Process Mapping
• Entity Diagram mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing

Education and Experience

Minimum

• 3+ Year IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar)
• 4+ years’ experience developing Android applications
• Have worked on multiple published apps in the Play Store

Advantageous

• 4+ year user interface analyst experience
• Java related degree/qualification
• Honours degree
• Business experience and product knowledge
• Experience in Kotlin beneficial
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience with automated testing tools and techniques
• Experience with GIT
• Native Android

Methodologies

• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Tools

• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• Android Studio
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

Processes

• ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)

Technologies

• J2EE, Spring Boot
• Android, Java, Kotlin
• WebLogic, Apache
• UML
• XML, JSON
• SOAP and REST Web Service Development

Other

• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques
   

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Key Purpose of the role

• The Senior Sales Manager will lead several funeral sales teams in Mass Markets. This individual will be required to develop strategies, examine growth opportunities, and enable sales improvement, and taking responsibility for the department’s performance against set targets.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Lead and manage Funeral sales teams consisting of Sales Managers and financial advisors in order to achieve sales and quality targets.
• Responsible for management and oversight of the FSPs activities relating to rendering of financial services, which includes advice and/or intermediary services.
• Must monitor that the statutory obligation of the FSP is complied with.
• Ensuring a professional level of interactions with intermediaries and HR contacts.
• Inductions and leads management, ensuring that campaigns and leads are correctly managed
• Ongoing liaison and relationship building with various stakeholders.
• Analyze Management Information System Reporting, create and maintain well crated reports to identify opportunities and gaps
• Uphold Business processes and identify operational improvements
• Ability to proactively manage change.
• Compliance and risk management and adherence, coach staff to improve performance and behaviours. Specifically complying with the fit and proper requirements (COB, RE, Qualification, PST and CPD).
• Foster an Energetic and Motivated Work Environment
• Representatives and Sales Managers complete all required training for their role.
• Monitor on an ongoing basis that the representatives are treating customers fairly.
• Monitor representatives under supervision to maintain the required standard.

Competencies

• Ability to engage Union representatives. 
• Logical, analytical problem-solving ability. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Able to take initiative and exercise sound judgment and decision making. 
• Ability to work in a highly pressurized, target oriented environment. 
• Ability to deal positively with change and uncertainty. 
• Strong business acumen. 
• Strong sales and persuasive skills. 
• Strong quality orientation. 
• Good organisational skills. 
• Proactive, self-motivated. 
• Able to identify, nurture and develop talent. 
• Customer oriented. 
• Ability to meet deadlines timeously 

Qualifications and Skills

• Relevant Tertiary Education required. Degree/Diploma. (BCom or Marketing) 
• 4-6 years sales management experience in a target driven sales environment. 
• Competent in MS office
• Experience managing teams country wide. 
• NQF Level 5 and Regulatory Exams compulsory. (RE1 and RE5) 
• Life Product knowledge (Advantageous)

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Key Purpose

• The Event Manager is responsible for creating event solutions that enable business to meet and exceed their objectives by delivering an exceptional and innovative customer experience, while always ensuring that Discovery is able to meet our objectives and achieve great value for money.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Driving and defining the implementation of event strategy and solutions for the Sales and Distribution team on webinar and for live events.  strategy for
• Collaborating closely with the Rewards and Recognition team, Brand Teams and other internal stakeholders to ensure flawless, on-time and high impact delivery of relevant events to help achieve company and business unit their objectives.
• Perform research to select the appropriate venue for each live event where required.
• Perform research to select the appropriate webinar platform for each webinar event including pre-recording requirements.
• Manage the preparation and distribution of all event collateral for each event.
• Efficient management in the assistance of Executives and colleagues linked to a specific event.
• Executive diary management – scheduling events around several Executives diaries.
• Manage and assist with relevant speakers’ coordination.
• Prepare Executives and any speakers or celebrities for the events - provide event specific speaker packs for all Executives involved including full event spec, parking, event brief and expectations.
• Onsite management at event venue from set up to strike of the event.
• Coordinate with vendors to prepare contracts according to legal procedures.
• Ensure all onsite safety is managed appropriately, as well as POPIA requirements.
• Ensuring all travel and accommodation logistics for the event are appropriate and correct.
• Actively listen and communicate openly with clients and internal teams.
• Manage the relevant event budget for area of responsibility.

Competencies

• A proven track record of high-end exclusive event management
• Excellent organisation skills
• Exceptional communication skills
• Good emotional intelligence
• A passion for customer service
• Must be adaptable to change
• Must enjoy interacting with people and be a team player
• Excellent time management skills
• Planning skills (including but not limited to, virtual and live event planning, transport logistics, internal and external client management)
• Reliable
• Willingness to work weekends, after hours and public holidays (needs dependent)

Education and Experience

Qualifications

• Matric
• Minimum 3-year undergraduate degree or diploma in Marketing
• 8 years of experience in event management, including corporate events
  Knowledge and skills
• Event and budget management
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Strong negotiation skills
• Sound decision-making ability
• Proven capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously