Current Vacancies at Sanlam Group

Purpose of the Role

• The primary objective of this role is to significantly enhance market share and profitability within the province by developing and executing a robust provincial distribution strategy.
• This involves driving key business metrics, fostering innovation and enhancing performance through strategic partnerships. The role demands ensuring seamless alignment, integration and effective functioning of all functions across the province.
• Additionally, it requires building and nurturing strategic relationships with key stakeholders, connecting the business with influential partners and forging strong business relationships that support and drive the overall growth objectives of the province.
• By strategically leading these initiatives, the role aims to create a cohesive and high-performing business environment that not only meets but exceeds market expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership and Business Planning
• Budget and Expense Management
• Sales Strategy Execution
• Change and Innovation Management
• Compliance, Quality and Risk Management
• People Management

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Business, Legal or Commercial Degree/MBA an advantage
• CFP an advantage
• Key Individual (KI)
• It is expected that the successful candidate meets the requirements of Class of Business (COB) at the date of appointment

Knowledge and Experience

• Prior experience as a Provincial Executive will be advantageous
• Sound Financial Services experience at a senior level within a corporate environment
• At least 8 years Sales and Distribution exposure
• At least 10 years sound management and leadership experience

Skills and Competencies

• Strategic Vision: Ability to think strategically, develop long-term plans and align actions with overall business goals.
• Commercial Insight: Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of commercial operations and market dynamics.
• Leadership Excellence: Demonstrated leadership abilities, including vision, courage, ethical behavior and effective interpersonal connections.
• Proactive Approach: Highly action-oriented, capable of driving initiatives and achieving results.
• Political Savvy: Possesses sound political acumen, adept at navigating complex organizational and external environments.
• Executive Influence: Skilled in operating at a strategic level, challenging the status quo and influencing executive decisions.
• Confident Communication: Socially confident with excellent communication skills, able to engage effectively with diverse audiences.
• Inspirational Leadership: Capable of inspiring and motivating teams to achieve their highest potential.
• Results-Driven: Strong focus on achieving sales targets and business objectives.
• Natural Networker: Skilled at building and maintaining relationships, with a talent for networking.
• Persuasion Mastery: Highly effective in influencing and persuading others to align with strategic goals.

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Purpose of the Role

• To serve as a senior advisory authority by managing complex intermediary and/or client portfolios, providing thought leadership on advice solutions, influencing distribution strategy at a segment level, and safeguarding long-term client and business outcomes.

Overview of Role Responsibilities (Level 1-13)

Customer Relationship Management / Account Management- Level 6 - Adaptation

• Develop and implement a relationship management plan for existing customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization and to enable effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues.
• Collect feedback from identified customers or customer segments to ensure their needs are met, providing themes, summary analyses, and recommendations for changes based on customer input.

Information and Business Advice- Level 6 - Adaptation

• Provide specialist advice on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures, resolving queries and issues and referring very complex or contentious issues to others.

Financial Advice- Level 6 - Adaptation

• Implement the strategy for providing financial advice within an area of limited complexity, taking its distinctive client demographics and needs into account.

Pricing and Terms Negotiation- Level 6 - Adaptation

• Lead and deliver structured pricing and terms projects and procedures. Negotiate within approved boundaries.

Customer Needs Clarification- Level 6 - Adaptation

• Set clear objectives for each sales call or meeting; tailor standard materials to make presentations to decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization; and ask relevant questions to gather information, to evaluate the customer's level of interest, and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.

Required Skills

Verbal Communication - Advanced

• Works at an advanced level to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, and policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Builds Rapport - Advanced

• Works at an advanced level to quickly and effectively establish trust within the buying centers in the client's organization. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Closes Effectively - Fully Competent

• Works with full competence to pre-plan, suggest, and confirm mutually beneficial commitments that are appropriate and clear and that move the sales/client relationship forward. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Initiates Compelling Sales Conversations - Fully Competent

• Works with full competence to propose a mutually agreed-upon agenda to start sales conversations that offer value to the client. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Intermediaries Process - Fully Competent

• Works with full competence to understand the role and responsibilities of the intermediary in relation to both client and product providers. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Maintains the Relationship - Advanced

• Works at an advanced level to cultivate and sustain positive interpersonal connections, fostering trust, collaboration, and effective communication to support enduring professional relationships. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

General Experience

• Experience enables job holder to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Minimum 5 years)

Managerial Experience

• Very limited (0 to 3 months)

Education

• Undergraduate Degree / Honours Tertiary Degree

Required Behavioural Competencies

• Communicates Effectively
• Manages Complexity
• Ensures Accountability
• Builds Networks
• Instils Trust
• Customer Focus

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Purpose of the Role

• To provide and deliver an effective and comprehensive administrative support service to the Regional General Manager and management team, as well as fulfil a first-line client interaction point function.
• The ideal individual must have strong administrative skills and strong planning and organisation skills, be detail-orientated, structured, have good communication skills and the ability to multi-task in a high-performance culture environment.

Overview of Role Responsibilities

Provide secretarial support to the business unit and management team in terms of the following:

• Organising meetings, functions, presentations and conferences, note-taking
• Diary management/reminding manager of important tasks & deadlines
• Mail and information management
• Client liaison
• Time and priority management
• Office and telephone administration/maintaining procedures/administration systems
• Typing, compiling & preparing reports, presentation & correspondence
• SAP4Hana Financial payments & order supplies & SRS requests/budget control
• Assist with arranging training interventions and coordinating events.
• Travel arrangements (booking and arranging travel, transport & accommodation)
• SAP capturing (training)
• Monthly feedback
• SanlamConnect list – Address book

Required Skills

Planning and Organizing - Intermediate

• Works at an intermediate level to plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet objectives. Typically works with guidance.

Verbal Communication - Intermediate

• Works at an intermediate level to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, and policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications. Typically works with guidance.

Policy and procedures - Intermediate

• Works at an intermediate level to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies and work objectives. Typically works with guidance.

Computer Skills - Intermediate

• Works at an intermediate level to understand and effectively use standard office equipment and standard software packages to support business processes. Typically works with guidance.

Work Scheduling - Basic

• Works at a basic level to ensure the optimum scheduling of work and material resources to meet planned performance targets. Typically works under close supervision.

Desktop Publishing - Basic

• Works at a basic level to create documents using page-layout software on a personal/desktop computer. Typically works under close supervision.

General Experience

• Matric
• Certificate/diploma in administration/secretarial would be advantageous
• 2 years’ proven experience in office administration and/or as personal assistant, specifically in the financial services industry will be advantageous
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite i.e. PowerPoint, Excel, Word
• Knowledge of SanFin, SanQuote and AutoNub would be advantageous

Managerial Experience

• Not applicable

Required Behavioural Competencies

• Ensures Accountability
• Plans and Aligns
• Drives Results
• Communicates Effectively
• Manages Complexity
• Collaborates

The closing date for applications is 13 November 2026.

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Job Description

• We are looking for an exceptional Tech Lead to lead the engineering of a strategic new Life Annuities technology product. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who wants to build, not simply manage.
• You will shape the technical direction, make key architecture and engineering decisions, lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers, and work closely with Product, Design, Architecture and business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into secure, scalable and resilient technology.
• This is not a conventional project team that builds a solution and hands it over. The team will own the product and its technology across the full lifecycle: design, build, test, deploy, run, manage, enhance and fix.
• We are looking for an accomplished Tech Lead to help mobilise this team and establish the engineering foundations, culture and technical direction required to deliver a secure, scalable and resilient financial services platform.
• You will combine hands-on software engineering, technical leadership and team enablement. You will work closely with Product Management, Architecture, Design, Business and Operations to translate complex customer and commercial requirements into well-designed technology solutions.

What will you do?

Lead the technology and engineering direction

• Define and evolve the technical vision, architecture and engineering roadmap for the product.
• Translate product and business needs into pragmatic, scalable and secure technical solutions.
• Make sound architectural and engineering decisions, balancing immediate delivery with long-term product sustainability.
• Guide system design across applications, services, integrations, data and cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with broader SLS Technology architecture, security, data and risk standards.
• Champion modern AI-enabled and agentic software engineering practices, establishing how AI coding agents and automation are used responsibly across design, development, testing, documentation and operations.
• Evaluate opportunities to embed AI and agentic capabilities into the product architecture where they create meaningful customer, operational or engineering value.
• Evaluate other emerging technologies and introduce them where they create measurable customer or engineering value.

Build and lead a high-performing engineering team

• Help recruit, onboard and develop a team of strong software engineers.
• Create an engineering culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, learning and technical excellence.
• Provide hands-on coaching, technical direction and constructive feedback.
• Establish clear engineering standards and create the environment for engineers to do their best work.
• Build capability within the team and support the development of future technical leaders.
• Encourage healthy technical debate, experimentation and continuous improvement.

Remain close to the code

• Contribute directly to critical implementations, prototypes and complex technical problem-solving.
• Review code and system designs, ensuring that solutions are maintainable, testable and fit for purpose.
• Lead the resolution of complex defects, performance challenges and production incidents.
• Champion automated testing, secure coding, code quality and effective technical documentation.
• Manage technical debt deliberately and transparently.

Own delivery and operational excellence

• Lead the team through the full software development and product lifecycle.
• Establish modern engineering practices across CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability and release management.
• Ensure that the team builds for operability, reliability, security and supportability from the outset.
• Define and track appropriate engineering and service-health measures.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Use operational insights, customer feedback and engineering data to improve the product continuously.

Partner across the business

• Work closely with Product Management to shape priorities, delivery plans and product outcomes.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, Risk, Compliance, Design, Business and Operations.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and remove impediments to delivery.
• Help create shared accountability for customer outcomes rather than narrow functional hand-offs.

What you will bring

• A relevant degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 8 to 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience in a technical leadership, senior engineering or solution architecture role.
• A strong record of designing, building and operating secure, scalable and highly available software systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers while retaining strong hands-on technical credibility.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture and modern engineering practices.
• Experience building distributed systems in a cloud environment, preferably AWS, although relevant Azure or Google Cloud experience will also be considered.
• Experience with modern backend technologies such as Java, Python, Node.js, Go or comparable languages.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
• Practical experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture and integration patterns.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, messaging platforms and data-intensive systems.
• Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code and observability.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management capability.
• Experience in insurance, fintech, banking, investments, retirement income or another regulated environment will be advantageous.

What will make you successful?

Ownership

• You take accountability for the technology and the outcomes it enables. You do not see production support, defects or operational performance as someone else’s responsibility.

Technical judgement

• You can navigate complexity, identify the decisions that matter and choose solutions that are appropriate for the product, organisation and customer.

Engineering leadership

• You raise the standard of engineering around you. You coach through the work, provide clarity and help capable engineers become even better.

Product thinking

• You understand that technology exists to solve customer and business problems. You consider value, risk, sustainability and total cost of ownership when making technical decisions.

Delivery focus

• You create momentum without compromising security, resilience or maintainability. You favour incremental delivery, fast feedback and continuous improvement.

Communication and influence

• You can explain complex technical matters in accessible language, facilitate productive technical discussions and influence decisions across organisational boundaries.

Learning mindset

• You remain curious, keep pace with developments in engineering and apply new technologies thoughtfully rather than following trends for their own sake.
• These success attributes build on the source advert’s emphasis on ownership, customer centricity, growth, innovation, velocity and inclusion.

Why join SLS Technology?

This is an opportunity to:

• Build a strategically important financial services product from the ground up.
• Shape the technical foundation rather than inherit all the decisions.
• Help select and develop the engineering team that will build and operate the product.
• Work with meaningful autonomy and end-to-end accountability.
• Solve complex technology problems in a large, regulated financial services environment.
• Build technology that supports customers at an important stage of their financial lives.
• Contribute to the evolution of modern product and engineering practices across SLS Technology.
• Grow your career within one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups.

The opportunity

• We are looking for more than someone who can coordinate delivery. We need a technology leader who can design it, build it, lead it and own it.
• If you are excited by the opportunity to create a strong engineering team, build enduring technology and take responsibility for the product throughout its lifecycle, we would like to hear from you.

Closing date 30 November 2026.

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Job Description

• SLS Technology is looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Life Annuities Technology team. This is a senior, hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives on solving complex technical problems, designing scalable systems and setting a high engineering standard for others.
• Working closely with the Tech Lead, Product Management and Design, you will help shape technical solutions and turn business and customer needs into secure, reliable and maintainable technology.

What will you do?

Software Engineering & Solution Design

• Design, build, test and maintain high-quality, scalable software, writing clean, well-tested and maintainable production code.
• Lead the engineering of complex features, services and components.
• Translate complex requirements into pragmatic and maintainable technical solutions.
• Contribute meaningfully to architecture, system design and technology decisions, designing for scalability, security, resilience, performance and failure.
• Set and champion engineering standards across coding, testing, documentation and code reviews.
• Use modern AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices to accelerate software design, development, testing, debugging, documentation and continuous improvement.
• Design and build AI-enabled or agentic capabilities where appropriate, applying sound engineering principles around security, testing, observability, human oversight and reliability.

Own what we build

• Take end-to-end ownership of the technology you create, including its performance in production.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt.
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting and observability into solutions.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews.
• Continuously improve system reliability, performance and maintainability.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Be a trusted technical voice within the engineering team.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code reviews and hands-on coaching.
• Help engineers strengthen their technical judgement and problem-solving capability.
• Facilitate technical discussions and constructively challenge engineering decisions.
• Share knowledge and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Product & Business Collaboration

• Work closely with the Tech Lead, Product Management, Design, Architecture and business stakeholders.
• Understand the customer and business problem, not just the technical requirement.
• Balance delivery speed with sustainability, technical quality and long-term product health.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

What you will bring

• Relevant degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on experience designing, developing and operating complex software systems.
• Strong proficiency across relevant modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, engineering patterns, security and performance.
• Experience designing distributed, high-volume and highly reliable systems.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integration patterns and modern application architecture.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and modern operational practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability and DevOps engineering.
• Practical experience with, or strong exposure to, AI-assisted software development and coding agents, and an understanding of how generative AI is changing modern software engineering.
• Proven ability to mentor and technically influence other engineers.

What will make you successful?

• Engineering Excellence: You care deeply about your craft and leave code and systems better than you found them.
• Technical Judgement: You understand trade-offs and know when to optimise for speed, simplicity, scale or resilience.
• Ownership: Production is part of engineering. If we build it, we own it.
• Problem Solving: You enjoy getting underneath complex problems and addressing root causes rather than symptoms.
• Product Thinking: You understand that excellent engineering ultimately needs to create customer and business value.
• Mentorship: You make other engineers better through coaching, collaboration and example.
• Continuous Learning: You remain curious and actively explore better engineering approaches, technologies and tools.

Why join SLS Technology?

This is an opportunity to:

• Build a strategically important financial services product from the ground up.
• Shape the technical foundation rather than inherit all the decisions.
• Help select and develop the engineering team that will build and operate the product.
• Work with meaningful autonomy and end-to-end accountability.
• Solve complex technology problems in a large, regulated financial services environment.
• Build technology that supports customers at an important stage of their financial lives.
• Contribute to the evolution of modern product and engineering practices across SLS Technology.
• Grow your career within one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups.

The opportunity

• We are looking for more than someone who can coordinate delivery. We need a technology leader who can design it, build it, lead it and own it.
• If you are excited by the opportunity to create a strong engineering team, build enduring technology and take responsibility for the product throughout its lifecycle, we would like to hear from you.

Closing date 30 November 2026.

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Job Description

• SLS Technology is looking for a curious and ambitious Junior Software Engineer to join our Life Annuities Technology team. This is an opportunity to build your engineering career by working alongside experienced engineers on real technology that matters.
• You will design, develop, test and improve production software while gaining practical experience in modern software engineering, cloud technologies, integration, automation and the operation of resilient technology platforms.
• You will be supported by experienced Software Engineers and a Tech Lead, but from the start you will be encouraged to contribute ideas, solve problems and take ownership of your work. Build it. Own it. Learn from it. Make it better.
• We are looking for someone with strong fundamentals, curiosity and a genuine passion for engineering rather than someone who already knows everything.

What will you do?

Build Real Software

• Design, develop, test and maintain software as part of a cross-functional product team.
• Write clean, readable and testable code with support from experienced engineers.
• Build and enhance features, APIs, services and integrations.
• Use AI coding assistants and agentic development tools effectively across coding, testing, debugging, documentation and problem-solving.
• Participate in code reviews and learn how to give and receive constructive engineering feedback.
• Write automated tests and contribute to technical documentation.
• Develop an understanding of secure, scalable and maintainable software design.

Learn Modern Engineering

• Build hands-on capability in modern programming languages, frameworks and engineering tools.
• Gain exposure to cloud-native engineering, APIs, integration, distributed systems and modern software architectures.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring and observability.
• Learn how software moves from idea to development and into production.
• Develop the judgement to critically review, test and improve AI-generated code rather than assuming it is correct.
• Gain exposure to building AI-enabled applications and agentic solutions.

Own What You Build

• Take responsibility for the quality and reliability of your work.
• Help investigate defects and production issues.
• Learn structured debugging and root-cause analysis.
• Use monitoring and feedback to understand how your software behaves in production.
• Continuously improve existing code rather than only building new features

Grow with the Team

• Pair with and learn from experienced engineers.
• Actively seek feedback and use it to accelerate your development.
• Participate in engineering discussions and ask thoughtful questions.
• Contribute ideas and different perspectives.
• Share what you learn with others.
• Build your technical judgement over time through real-world engineering experience.

What you will bring

• A relevant degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical capability.
• Typically 0 to 3 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• A foundational understanding of software development and programming concepts.
• Exposure to one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, .NET/C# or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Basic understanding of databases, APIs and software development practices.
• Exposure to Git/source control and automated testing would be advantageous.
• Exposure to cloud, DevOps or CI/CD concepts would be advantageous.
• Personal projects, open-source contributions, internships or meaningful university software projects are welcomed as evidence of engineering potential.

What will make you successful?

• Curiosity: You want to understand how things work and why.
• Problem Solving: You enjoy breaking complex problems into manageable pieces.
• Learning Agility: You learn quickly, experiment and are comfortable asking for help.
• Ownership: You care about the quality of what you build and follow through when something goes wrong.
• Collaboration: You enjoy solving problems with other engineers, Product and business colleagues.
• Engineering Craft: You want to become an excellent software engineer, not simply someone who writes code.
• Customer Focus: You remain interested in the human and business problem your technology is intended to solve.

Closing date 30 November 2026.

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The overall purpose of the role

• The Operations Shared Services: Product Owner provides operational, governance, planning, reporting and portfolio management support to the Head of Shared Services. 
• The incumbent is responsible for coordinating strategic initiatives, maintaining governance frameworks, tracking delivery against objectives, managing reporting cycles, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and supporting continuous improvement activities across Shared Services. 
• The role acts as a central coordination point, ensuring visibility, consistency, accountability and effective execution of business priorities while enabling leadership to focus on strategic decision-making.

Key responsibilities

Business Planning and Performance Management (25%)

• Coordinate annual business planning activities.
• Maintain departmental scorecards and KPI tracking.
• Consolidate monthly, quarterly and annual performance reports.
• Monitor delivery against strategic objectives.
• Identify risks to delivery and escalate where appropriate.
• Support preparation of Executive, MANCO and SteerCo submissions.

Governance and Risk Coordination (20%)

• Coordinate governance deliverables across Shared Services.
• Maintain annual governance calendar.
• Track policy reviews and governance actions.
• Coordinate BCM, TCF, DPR and other compliance activities.
• Track audit findings and management actions.
• Prepare governance reporting packs.

Portfolio, Project and Initiative Tracking (20%)

• IT product ownership
• Maintain the Shared Services project and initiative portfolio.
• Track progress of strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate updates from initiative owners.
• Monitor benefits realization.
• Prepare status reporting.

Financial and Operational Administration (10%)

• Support budget tracking and expenditure monitoring.
• Assist with business case preparation.
• Monitor vendor and contract administration.
• Track resource allocation and capacity information.

Stakeholder and Executive Support (15%)

• Coordinate management meetings and workshops.
• Track actions and decisions.
• Prepare presentations and briefing packs.
• Facilitate communication across business units.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities.

Continuous Improvement and Automation Support (10%)

• Identify opportunities for process simplification.
• Maintain the improvement opportunity register.
• Support automation and AI initiatives.
• Track realization of operational benefits.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications

Degree or Diploma in:

• Business Management
• Commerce
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Industrial Psychology
• Similar field

Experience

• 3-5 years business support or business management experience.
• Experience in financial services advantageous.

Experience in:

• Reporting
• Governance
• Project administration
• Business planning
• Stakeholder coordination

Knowledge and Skills

Technical

• Advanced Excel
• PowerPoint
• Power BI (basic to intermediate)
• SharePoint
• MS Teams
• Power Automate (advantageous)
• Reporting and dashboard creation

Behavioral competencies

• Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
• Client Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results and meets deadlines, even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.