Jobs at Hollard Insurance

Job Advert Summary    

• Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Hollard Life Solutions busines unit .  We are looking to recruit an Executive Assistant.

Responsibilities and Outputs:

• Co-ordinate and facilitate the implementation, monitoring and review of strategic projects in the Life Solutions business.
• Assist in the formulation and development of the Life Solutions strategy for the next 3 – 5 years in consultation with executive management team.
• Continually review Life Solutions business practices against market / financial services / best practice.
• Provide cover and strategic support to executive roles (where relevant).

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Competencies – Knowledge and Skills: 

• Experience in business function at middle or senior management level.
• Commercial acumen.
• Actuarial background strongly advantageous.
• Research, analytical and quantitative skills.
• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience dealing at a senior management level (stakeholder).

Competencies – Soft skills and Personal Qualities:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter, achievement orientated
• Deadline driven, able to work under pressure
• Customer focused
• Team player, supporter
• Negotiation, Conflict Resolution
• Attention to detail
• Strategic thinker

Educational Requirements    

• Relevant Bachelars Degree

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• The Project Manager must ensure all required projects and strategic initiatives within scope are planned, resourced, scheduled and managed correctly. Also, ensure that projects are rolled out within budget, both cost and time. There is a focus on IT projects and implementation and maintenance as well as operational projects. Develop and maintain effective business relationships throughout all areas of Hollard Health.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand the end-to-end process for implementing projects for I.T.
• Understand the scope of what needs to be delivered and translate these into project plans and schedules.
• Plan and control project schedules (plans) with relevant stream leads / business analysts and delivery partners.
• Control project quality with relevant stream leads / business analysts and delivery partners.
• Allocate and control stream leads / business analysts and their deliverables. This includes the delivery partners.
• Control project scope with steering committee and stakeholders.
• Manage project risks / incidents with relevant stream leads / business analysts, steering committee, and stakeholders.
• Manage change brought about by the project implementations with relevant stream leads / business analysts, steering committee, and stakeholders.
• Ensure that prevailing governance structures and processes are followed.
• Timeously providing consolidated weekly and monthly reports on assigned projects.
• Reporting on project budget vs. actual cost and time, arising & current governance matters, identified risks and issues, project progress.
• Establish, manage, and maintain relationships with all Hollard Health stakeholders regarding ongoing projects.

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• At least 2 years’ experience as a Project Manager in the IT environment, managing the full SDLC, delivery, and implementation.
• Experience in using Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience within Health Insurance advantageous.
• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Very good written and verbal communication.
• A combination of initiation, integration, and completion skills.
• Accurate high quality work output.
• Strong project management, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Relationship Driven.
• Business Acumen.

Educational Requirements    

• Matric.
• Bachelor’s Degree.
• A recognized Project Management (PMI or Prince2) qualification.

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Job Advert Summary    
The Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant is part of a high-performing Talent Acquisition team. The Senior TA Consultant focused on Executive /Senior appointments and hard-to-fill roles

• The Senior TA Specialist is also a subject matter expert (SME) in a particular skill set or competency for our business and will
• Drive and shape the right sourcing strategies and market intelligence for this capability in selected markets and geographies
• Capably identify the right talent across global markets and provide advice to the business on how to attract that talent to Hollard
• Develop a deep understanding of your assigned market to successfully promote and sell career pathways and Hollard as an employer of choice within this market. Working with the Business to drive campaigns and brand campaigns where needed
• The Senior TA Consultant will be responsible for
• At least 1 landscape mapping exercise done per annum against defined criterion
• TAT offers to be within 60 days
• Access to D3 and above only roles. Most research and data mining is required on these specialist senior roles, where a readily available database of suitable candidate is not available
• To fill these roles that are time consuming
• Jointly with the BU Cluster Head conduct talent mapping workshops with managers to understand their strategic business and operational goals and objectives, and to plan for future skill requirements
• Appropriately resourced to meet the current capacity requirements
• Appropriately skilled to conduct the necessary research and market mapping
• Strategically positioned as the talent sourcing partner, i.e. develop the necessary credibility internally and externally as a proactive, insightful, and informed partner
• A talent tracker, once talent has been identified to track talent so that they are easily accessible (and interested) when suitable vacancies ariseCo-Sourcing Scope of Work
• Collaborate with the Recruitment Consultant and Business to identify and engage with candidates for roles in Hollard
• Using a suite of tools, develop deep subject matter talent sourcing expertise in the talent markets for the skills required
• Collaborate with resources in your wider team to meet hard-to-fill or specialist sourcing needs for executive or niche roles
• Guide candidates through the entire recruitment process, including providing information on the Hollard vision, the business strategy, our culture, and values, as well as conducting in-depth qualifying interviews to establish the candidate’s suitability against the requirements of the role.
• Screen applicants for current and future opportunities, creating a candidate profile and documenting these preliminary interviews to share with hiring teams and recruiters
• Ensure the delivery of a strong potential candidate pipeline by leveraging internal talent and referral channels, developing talent communities, managing referral campaigns
• Grow and develop more junior team members
• Acting as a ‘Talent Advisor’ to the business, developing actionable competitive intelligence for recruiters and hiring managers. Gather and analyse data for accurate and confident decision-making and sourcing strategy. Make recommendations on additional candidate pools and recruiting techniques, after evaluating market conditions
• Establish regular and timely recruiter and stakeholder engagements to ensure alignment of targets and objective
• With the TA Custer Head, you will assist to develop and execute a variety of candidate marketing techniques and materials
• Actively pursue candidate channels to deliver to our Group Talent agenda
• Achieve individual targets aligned to SLAs and Metrics

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• 5 years recruitment experience
• Experience in Short Term Insurance, Life, General Insurance, Commercial Insurance and CoEs
• Experience of a customer focused role
• Self-motivated and able to identify opportunities
• Tenacious and resilient
• Ambitious, driven and determined to achieve targets and objectives
• Problem solving, influencing, questioning, and listening skills
• Verbal and written communication skill
• Demonstrable ability to develop relationships
• Organisational and planning skills
• Attention to detail.
• Time management and organisational skills
• Innovative

Educational Requirements    

• Matric
• Degree in Human Resources

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Job Advert Summary    
We are looking for a highly motivated self-starter to join our team as a Recruitment Researcher supporting our team, to recruit for a variety of positions for our Hollard Group (bulk recruitment); Short-Term and Life Insurance specific roles

• Taking Job Briefs from Managers & Directors for active positions, asking accurate questions to be able to target the right candidates to the right opportunities
• Preparing market mappings assigned by respective Manager
• Actively working for the Manager on sourcing, shortlisting, screening, and briefing candidates
• Conduct research and market analysis to identify potential candidates for various roles
• Tactfully headhunt and source for both passive and actively-looking candidates through various channels
• Build and maintain a talent pool of potential candidates in the Applicant Tracking System
• Screen and assess candidates' suitability for specific roles based on their skills, experience, and qualifications
• Work closely with the recruitment team to conduct candidate screening/interviews and formatting their cvs
• Participate in recruitment meetings with consultants and provide recommendations on suitable candidates
• Analyse recruitment market trends and conduct Business Development research into new segments
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, recruitment practices, and new sourcing methods
• Additional sourcing duties as assigned by the consultant
• Having qualitative conversations with candidates either over the phone or through MS Teams to analyse skills, knowledge and personality
• Preparing shortlists of candidates for various positions, thereby preparing CV's and Candidate's presentations-displaying a career snapshot of shortlisted candidates, justifying why the candidates would be a perfect fit for the role and organisation
• Putting together high-level information packs for candidates to better understand the client, role and job market in the region
• Maintaining trackers to update progress on each role being worked on across various clients which serves as a personal database
• Updating the records of active candidates on our recruitment database
• Managing interview processes between clients and candidates: preparing the candidates for their interviews, scheduling interviews, and liaising with the logistics team to coordinate travel and accommodation arrangements for clients/candidates if required

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• 5 years recruitment experience
• Strong interest in sales and recruitment
• Strong bilingual communication skills to communicate with candidates located regionally
• Able to multitask effectively while juggling multiple ongoing roles
• Comfortable communicating effectively over the phone
• Ambitious self-starter who is able to meet targets and deadlines
• Previous experience as a researcher in a recruitment firm will be an added advantage
• Experience in Short Term Insurance, Life, General Insurance, Commercial Insurance and CoEs
• Experience of a customer focused role
• Self-motivated and able to identify opportunities
• Tenacious and resilient
• Ambitious, driven and determined to achieve targets and objectives.
• Problem solving, influencing, questioning, and listening skills.
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to develop relationships
• Organisational and planning skills
• Attention to detail.
• Time management and organisational skills
• Innovative

Educational Requirements    

• Matri
• Degree in Human Resources