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Job Description

• The successful candidate will be expected to lead, manage and guide a team of  Telesales consultants to reach required targets. To facilitate any necessary course of action to achieve this purpose.

Key purpose

• To lead, manage and guide a team of Telesales consultants to reach required targets. To facilitate any necessary course of action to achieve this purpose.

Key Outputs

The successful candidate will be expected, but not limited to perform the following key outputs:

• Leading and managing a team of 10 – 12 telesales agents
• Performance Management, coaching and developing team.
• Drive staff to achieve required targets and is accountability for teams overall sales targets
• Assessment of consultants calls - QA.
• Assisting with interviews & Role plays.
• Dealing with elevated queries/problems.
• Managing the ongoing relationship between brokers.
• Ensuring continual communication between management and staff.
• Adhere to and enforce internal policies.
• Inspire, motivate and support team.
• Able to work overtime from time to time, which may include weekends.

Personal attributes and skills

• Excellent verbal and numeric communication skills
• Sales Orientated
• Quality driven
• People-focused
• Quality driven
• Attention to detail
• Strong Interpersonal Skills
• Strong Leadership skills
• Problem solving skills
• Decision making skills
• Stress tolerance
• Excellent time management skills
• Organizational awareness
• Ability to work within a team and drive team culture

Qualification & Experience

• Grade 12 – essential
• 4 years outbound/ Inbound experience – essential
• 3 years Team Leader/leadership experience – Non negotiable
• Proficient in English – essential (writing, reading, speaking)
• Bi-lingual – advantage (writing, reading, speaking)
• Computer literate - MS Office, especially Excel – essential
• Regulatory Exam and NQF 5 FAIS credits
• BCOMM or related degree will be advantageous

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Key Purpose

• The Technical Lead / Solutions Architect is responsible for owning the technical integrity, architectural direction, and long‑term sustainability of a complex, data‑heavy financial software platform.
• The primary purpose of the role is to ensure that the system is correctly designed, robust, scalable, and fit for long‑term product evolution, while actively reducing technical risk. This includes making and defending critical architectural decisions, guiding engineers through complex implementation challenges, and ensuring that financial data and calculations are accurate, auditable, and delivered in a way that supports both product and business needs.

Objectives of this role

• We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead - Solutions Architect to take ownership of the design, implementation, and evolution of a complex financial software platform. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving hard problems, shaping architecture, and mentoring engineers.
• The person will play a critical role in shaping system architecture, making key technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the platform is built with long-term sustainability, scalability, and correctness in mind.

Responsibilities

• Lead system architecture across backend, frontend, and data layers
• Design and review complex solutions; contribute code where needed
• Build and guide Java / Spring Boot microservices
• Oversee SQL database design and data-heavy workflows
• Provide technical guidance on Angular / React initiatives
• Mentor engineers and support a growing, relatively junior team
• Take full ownership of technical decisions and outcomes

Preferred Competencies

Key Technical Skills

• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot (microservices)
• Solid SQL and database design experience
• Working knowledge of Angular and/or React
• Proven experience in a Tech Lead or Solutions Architect role

Domain & Background

• Experience in a product-based technology environment
• Exposure to financial systems, asset management, or financial reporting
• Strong understanding of complex data, calculations, and reporting flows
• Background combining technology and business/finance is highly valued

Personal Attributes

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• “Been-there-before” experience — able to anticipate problems early
• Patient, clear communicator who enjoys mentoring and teaching
• Comfortable operating in a complex, domain-heavy environment

Education and Experience

Minimum Required

• One of the following formal tertiary qualifications, obtained from a recognised South African or international institution:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Software / Computer / Electrical / Electronic)
• BCom with Information Systems / Computer Science / IT

Strongly Advantageous (but not mandatory)

• A business or finance component in the qualification (e.g. Economics, Accounting, Financial Management)
• Dual or hybrid backgrounds such as BCom (IT/Economics) or similar
• Formal exposure to financial accounting, data analysis, or information systems

Experience requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Solutions Architect
• Hands‑on ownership of complex production systems
• Deep understanding of data, domain complexity, and system design
• Bonus: Experience in a DFM, asset manager, or financial services technology company.
   

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Key purpose

• This position is based in the Discovery Connect Sales call centre, and reports to the sales team leader. The successful individual will be required to conduct Discovery Insure telesales.

Key Outputs

The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs:

• Achieve Insure Sales target
• Communication to members telephonically via fax and email
• Attending to general administration
• Conduct Financial Needs Analysis
• Achieve quality target
• Overcome objections
• Adhering to service level agreements

Personal attributes and skills

The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Target Driven
• Team Player
• Goal orientated
• Self motivated
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Adapt to change
• Persuasiveness
• Resilience/Tenacity
• Sound Time Management
• Self managed
• Attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
• Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans

Qualification & Experience

• Matric
• At least 2 years sales experience, preferably in an outbound telesales environmen
• Minimum 2 years short-term product knowledge, Discovery Insure Knowledge is an advantage
• PC literacy, email, word, excel
• Tertiary qualification an advantage
• NQF5 and RE5 qualification

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Key Purpose

• To ensure quality service delivery to all stakeholders while adhering to Discovery's SLA.

Key Outputs

The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Providing product information and handling financial queries
• Answering inbound calls timeously
• Dealing with all queries through to resolution
• Maintaining accurate details of all queries
• Actively displaying the Discovery Service Standards
• Dealing with all queries through to resolution
• Administration functions
• Policy changes to the product
• Working on Discovery Systems

Key attributes and skills

• Self motivated and pro-active
• Team player
• Assertiveness and the ability to adapt to change
• Able to prioritise and work under pressure
• Very organised, positive, and service orientated
• Professional at all times
• Attention to detail
• Use listening skills to identify problems
• Receptive to clients complaints and queries

Qualifications & Experience

• Matric
• A tertiary education (preferably a Degree or Diploma), or in the process of completing a tertiary education
• Minimum 1 years call centre experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Proficiency in English
• MS Office
• FAIS accreditation highly advantageous

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Job Purpose

• The Digital Content Writer is responsible for developing clear, accurate, and user-focused digital content that supports business objectives and enhances the client experience. This role translates complex financial and product concepts into simple, accessible communication that is easy to understand and supports positive client experience. The incumbent creates informative, empowering content and structured document templates, ensuring consistency, usability, and alignment across digital platforms. Working closely with UX, Design, and Marketing teams, the role contributes to shared outcomes while maintaining accountability for the quality, clarity, and effectiveness of all written content.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

• Writes and develops clear, accurate, user-focused content as the single source of truth that incorporates business standards, mappings and quality controls. 
• Partners with UX and design teams to ensure written content supports a clear and effective user experience
• Ensure content is educational, empowering, useful, and usable across all digital platforms.
• Initiates and participates in internal and external stakeholder discussions to gather requirements and align on content strategy.
• Follows the structured process to gather, understand and document client and employee requirements and translate them into effective content solutions.
• Consistently applies the existing business rules, brand guidelines and standards across all content outputs. 
• Responsible for daily planning and execution of tasks related to the communication and content strategy.
• Generates documents that reflect stakeholder requirements and content design principles. 

Key Competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Ability to simplify complex financial or technical concepts into clear language
• Strong business writing and structured communication skills
• Familiarity with content management systems (CMS) and digital publishing platforms.
• Skilled at prioritising and delivering high quality content under tight deadlines

Education and Experience

• A Degree (or equivalent) in Journalism, Communication or a related field.
• A certification or training in simplified writing or business writing (preferred)
• At least 3 years working experience in a content writing job.
• Experience working in the financial services sector (minimum 3 years preferred).
• Experience using HTML to format and structure digital content is advantageous but not required.
   

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Job Description

• Conduct Outbound and Inbound telephonic Conservation to existing Discovery clients, who have requested cancelation of their Discovery products.

Key Outputs

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

• Conduct outbound and inbound telephonic Conservation to existing Discovery client’s, who have requested cancelation of their Discovery policies with the goal of convincing clients to retain their policies with Discovery.
• Ensure that all FAIS requirements (FNA,ROA and Statutory notices) are completed during conservation calls.
• Ensure that monthly conservation targets are met.
• Proactively determine the client‘s needs and have the ability to re-sell product to members.
• Proactively evaluate interactions with clients providing dazzling service at all times to internal and external clients
• Ensuring that customers concerns are addressed and resolved by the relevant areas
• Keep accurate statistics on all calls, contacts and clients spoken to and the report findings to management
• Ensure that all administrative changes are done timeously, followed through on and monitored

Personal attributes and skills

• Have sales ability and be persuasive
• Be friendly, sincere ,confident ,courteous and positive
• Be self-managed
• Have excellent administration skills and be extremely organized
• Have the ability to deal with change
• Be able to maintain confidentiality
• Have excellent telephone skills
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Be self-motivated and pro-active
• Be able to prioritize , work under pressure and manage deadlines
• Be a team player
• Be resilient
• Be service orientated and customer focused
• Be results driven

Qualification & Experience

• Matric
• At least 2-3 years’ experience in a Life, Health or short term Assurance sales position and/ or Outbound Telesales environment (Essential)
• 2-3 year Conservation experience or telesales experience
• Excellent English and Afrikaans spoken would be beneficial
• FAIS accreditation – NQF 4 or 5 FAIS credits (Required)
• Regulatory exams (Required)
• Good Excel and Word skills

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Job Purpose 

• Strategic planning and design of all Discovery real-estate nationwide.

Key Outputs may include but are not limited to

Space Projections:

• Quarterly / bi-yearly meetings with Company heads (for relevant space allocated.
• Ramp up projections on growth projections and required space to meet the relevant needs.
• Tracking, maintaining and flagging growth throughout their portfolio
• Blocking and stacking when required to resolve any unexpected growth.

Design:

• Taking and interpreting of the brief from the client (with the assigned project manager)
• Presenting conceptual layout, design & 3D’s(Revit work) and preparing of PowerPoint presentations where required
• Detailed design and working drawings for project hand over (Shop fitting, finishes, detailed drawings, demolition etc)
• Sourcing materials, products and furniture and specifying
• Dealing with suppliers when sourcing or designing new
• Design input and co-collaboration with Project team throughout project process – revisions, changes, site meetings, contractor meetings, development meetings, regular site inspections, problem solving etc

Final snagging on design items

• Client follow up / project review with client after hand over.
• Assisting incoming external tenants with design, costing and setup in their new space.

Project Management on moves:

• Costing of projects
• Review & sign off of all Junior costs and layouts
• Site review and pre move walks to ensure what is on plan is as per drawings
• Regional site visits for bigger projects.
• Move documentations to be compiled and communicated in times provided
• Move communications to move co-ordinator
• Liaising, discussion and planning relevant move with contractors (move planning and schedule)
• Site snagging (to assist Jr’s where required)
• Site visits to regional buildings for bigger projects.
• Managing Junior workload, quality of work and accuracy of output
• Change management
• Financial management
• Managing up to 10 trades per move or project.
• Liaising with regional building coordinators when moves take place.

Admin:

• Compiling costs based on quote
• Managing jobcard SLA’s logged on Planon
• Managing filing in OneDrive to comprise of all relevant documentation for each reference number i.e. approvals, quotes, invoices etc.
• Managing incoming requests for stock and processing orders when required
• Managing teams OneDrive filing to comprise of all relevant documentation for each RFC
• Coordinating any invoice queries from Project admin
• Coordinating any order number queries
• Monthly & bi-annual documentation for business – growth reflections, occupied workstations, patterns of growth per business, etc
• Managing and delegating workload between Space planning team.
• Occupied workstation report
• Advising on change to charge outs following moves
• Conducting and providing support doing ergonomic assessments for all Discovery staff.
• Update and communicate all cost center changes after moves.
• Update all changes on Live drawings after moves.
• Scoping of existing tenant offices to assess furniture stock for relocation purposes.

Branding and signage:

• Taking and interpreting of the brief from the client for branding and signage projects.
• Liaising with suppliers and contractors.
• Obtaining quotes.
• Site visits with suppliers prior to installations

Qualification & Work Experience

• Relevant qualification in interior Design & Space Planning
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in space planning
• Minimum of 3 years in interior designing
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in project management

Technical Skills or Knowledge

• AutoCAD
• Revit

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Key Purpose

• Leading Discovery Life Funeral Sales Team at the relevant branch in order to achieve set sales target. 

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Lead and manage a Funeral Cover sales channel consisting of financial advisors in order to achieve sales and quality targets.
• Ensuring a professional level of interactions with all stakeholders
• Inductions and leads management, ensuring that campaigns and leads are correctly managed
• MIS Reporting - create and maintain reporting
• Ensure business processes are adhered to, and operational improvements are recommended.
• Ability to proactively manage change.
• To work as a team player within a team environment, participating willingly and providing support and guidance to colleagues at all time
• Adherence to compliance and risk management
• Coach staff to improve performance and behaviours.
• Create an energetic and motivated work environment
• Report any suspected misconduct in line with Discovery values and relevant regulation.

KI responsibilities may include but not limited to

• A KI is responsible for management and oversight of the FSPs activities relating to rendering of financial services, which includes advice and/or intermediary services.
• Must monitor the statutory obligation of the FSP are complied with.
• Must comply with the fit and proper requirements (COB, RE, Qualification, PST and CPD).
• Ensure that representatives are compliant with the fit and proper requirements.
• Representatives complete all required training for their role.
• Review the advice rendered by the representative.
• Monitor on an ongoing basis that the representatives are treating customers fairly.
• Supervise representatives under supervision:
• To ensure that all the required fit and proper requirements are complied with (Qualification and PST),
• where monitoring of representatives under supervision is delegated, the following should be done:
• record the process of delegation and the reporting frequency monitoring done.
• Instil a culture of treating customers fairly in all aspects of the business.
• Ensure that there are business processes and operational ability.

Competencies

• Ability to engage Union representatives.
• Logical, analytical problem-solving ability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to take accountability, responsibility and ownership.
• 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 organizational skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated.
• Able to identify, nurture and develop talent.
• Customer oriented.
• Ability to meet deadlines timeously.
• Ensure ethical business activities and maintain transparency of branch dealings.

Qualification and Skills 

• Matric (Grade 12)
• 3 – 4 years sales management experience in a target driven in/outbound sales.
• Competent in MS office
• A FAIS Recognized qualification: NQF Level 5
• RE5 and RE1Qaulification compulsory
• 1- 2 years leadership experience (Advantegous)
• Life Product knowledge (Advantegous)

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Key Outputs

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

• Be involved in executing the Vitality strategy in particular and Discovery strategy as a whole by introducing and enhancing various products and features in line with said strategy
• Own a portfolio of benefits / benefits and contribute towards strategy creation for this portfolio
• Be business owner of cross functional development teams for new products or features, including large projects and launch items. This can entail directly working with the teams or managing a direct report who works with the teams.
• Be able to successfully take a new product or feature from conceptualization through to implementation.
• Be aware of customer experience, digital and gamification trends and innovations in this field to act as an expert in guiding Vitality’s new product or feature experience and enhancing Vitality’s current product or feature suite to achieve strategic outcomes
• Maintain awareness of trends and innovations in health and wellness
• Work with various stakeholders including marketing, systems, graphics and usability experts to ensure great member experience in new and current product enhancements
• Manage the priority of work and ensure delivery of work within each product’s stream as well as where it fits in with the bigger picture of Vitality’s strategic outcomes according to greatest ROI and value.
• Ensure all products are designed to optimize self-servicing and are operationally efficient
• Hold strategic relationships with certain Vitality partners and suppliers.
• Ensure the system’s solution is efficient in achieving ROI and prudent from a cost and time perspective
• Develop a broad knowledge of Vitality’s product and feature offering and assess the impact of new products/feature and product/feature enhancements to the greater Vitality business.
• Identify critical elements of each product that must contribute to the product’s success in particular and Vitality’s strategic success as a whole
• Identify key failure points in products and ensure that appropriate mitigations are in place either in product design or efficient operational processes
• Contribute to formal and informal research to assist in product design and refinement
• Develop presentation decks for meetings both internal and external
• Develop product/feature specifications for product/feature launches and enhancements as well as medium to large projects
• Provide insights on the performance of products against strategic objectives, targets and expected outcomes and propose interventions where required to ensure that these are met.
• Encouraging members to remain engaged with Vitality and realize the value in participating in Vitality Benefits.
• Ensuring the Vitality Benefits achieve Vitality’s strategic objectives.
• Ensure that every Vitality member has the opportunity to engage with Vitality and experience its value. This spans across each touch point in their journey from onboarding onwards, where we have the ability to continuously drive engagement.
• Identifying barriers to engagement and remove hurdles for members.
• Ensuring the member involves a simple journey that ends up rewarding members for what they do daily to take care of their health and a journey that makes members want to do more for themselves.
• Manage product specialist/s to contribute towards delivering on the functions listed above.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will assume overall responsibility for:

• Liaising with other areas of the business such as marketing and systems on an ongoing basis.
• Compile business cases to motivate for the implementation of a new or enhancement to existing product/feature
• Present information to an audience to gain buy-in and approval for a project or feature
• Be aware of other initiatives across the business and uncover impacts across projects or initiatives and manage the impact accordingly.
• Communicate and manage change to impacted teams as needed
• Approve business specifications and system’ user specifications
• Approve marketing content and UX / member journeys that they are in line with the strategic outcomes of the product
• Approve testing plans to ensure all scenarios are catered for when new features and products are introduced.
• Ensure operational efficiency is built into new and existing products.
• Liaise and manage other business leads from other departments such as marketing, systems, operations, servicing, project office and finance to ensure their specifications fulfill the strategic and functional objectives of the products as well as implementation of the project is successful.
• Contribute to formal and informal research to aid in the design and improvement of engagement, growth, customer experience, products, and features.
• Ensure the relevant benefits have engagement targets defined
• Be responsible for driving member engagement to ensure the stated targets are achieved. This involves creating engagement strategies and coordinating with relevant business areas to execute these strategies.

Support the head of Vitality Product management to:

• Plan and drive the delivery of new Vitality products/feature and existing product/feature enhancements.
• Define and execute the Vitality strategy and ensuring projects further the business strategic objectives.
• Perform other functionally related duties as assigned.
• Maintain operational processes where strategic input determines the direction of product developments

Qualifications and experience

• Minimum of a bachelors degree.
• Post graduate degree or business diploma is preferable but not essential
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in product development / management and/or digital marketing and strategy. 5 + years experience preferred
• Experience at managerial level is required
• Exposure to digital trends and strategies
• Experience in agile product ownership is preferred.
• Proven track record of leading projects and people.
• Proven track record of project implementation
• Relationship building experience
• Track record of working well across various departments in a large organization is preferable
• A proven understanding of digital trends, customer experience, growth and engagement activities, and strategy formulation.

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Key purpose

• This position is based in the Discovery Connect Sales call centre, and reports to the sales team leader. The successful individual will be required to conduct Discovery Insure telesales.

Key Outputs

The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs:

• Achieve Insure Sales target
• Communication to members telephonically via fax and email
• Attending to general administration
• Conduct Financial Needs Analysis
• Achieve quality target
• Overcome objections
• Adhering to service level agreements

Personal attributes and skills

The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Target Driven
• Team Player
• Goal orientated
• Self motivated
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Adapt to change
• Persuasiveness
• Resilience/Tenacity
• Sound Time Management
• Self managed
• Attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
• Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans

Qualification & Experience

• Matric
• At least 2 years sales experience, preferably in an outbound telesales environment
• Minimum 2 years short-term product knowledge, Discovery Insure Knowledge is an advantage
• PC literacy, email, word, excel
• Tertiary qualification an advantage
• NQF5 and RE5 qualification

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Key Outputs

• Provide input into the Group Information Security Strategy with associated programs and leading these within the respective business unit.
• Engage directly with the CIO and other influential parties to execute the Group and Business Unit Information Security Strategy.
• Regular engagement with the Business stakeholders ensuring that the Information Security Program and Strategy is aligned to business and systems developments.
• Assist in the development of appropriate Information Security Policies, Standards and guidelines that are aligned to business outcomes and needs.
• Identification and assessment of Information Security related risks, identification of controls implemented within the business and co-ordination and reporting of management actions to address shortcomings.
• Assist with appropriate training and awareness programs or initiatives for all staff to inform them of their information security obligations.
• Providing ongoing direction, guidance and support to the business on all information security related matters.
• Regular reporting to and active participation on relevant forums and committees 

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Strong negotiation skills
• Excellent knowledge of technology environments 
• The ability to articulate security in non-technical business impact terms
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills, ability to lead discussions and present complex ideas to all levels within the organization
• Business Writing Skills, Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Customer Service Orientation, Result Orientation, Negotiation skills
• Personal organisation and time management skills
• Time Management
• Professional Communication (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
• Interpersonal skills - Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels 

Education and Experience

• Information Security Qualifications (CISSP, CISM, etc) 
• Related Degree / Diploma 
• 10+ years’ experience in the Information Security field across three or more domains
• Working knowledge of and experience with Risk and Compliance
• Working knowledge of applicable industry standards, legislations, etc 

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Job Purpose

• The Senior Manager owns and drives delivery of defined initiatives end‑to‑end — from concept through build, launch, and scale. This role is hands‑on and execution‑led, with accountability for turning strategy into working solutions that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes.

Key Outputs

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

• Actively shape and build out value propositions for members, providers, and partners.
• Own the development of features, journeys, and requirements, working directly with product, tech, and business teams.
• Lead and participate in hands‑on research and analysis, including member insights, provider feedback, and market scanning.
• Translate insight into delivery‑ready outputs — clear specs, journeys, prioritised backlogs, and decision papers.
• Drive and support testing, validation, and regulatory readiness, ensuring solutions are launch‑ready.
• Design and execute commercial models, not just define them.
• Work hands‑on with commercial, finance, and partner teams to implement pricing, incentives, and partnership structures.
• Drive solutions that unlock revenue, participation, and scale in the ecosystem.
• Personally drive delivery from concept through build, launch, and transition into BAU.
• Actively manage roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and risks — course‑correcting fast where needed.
• Operate as a key execution lead and subject‑matter contributor across initiatives.
• Prepare and own materials for SteerCos, governance forums, and senior decision‑making — focused on progress, risks, and actions.
• Build working relationships with external providers, partners, and clients that move delivery forward.
• Act as a day‑to‑day operational driver with selected partners, ensuring commitments are met.
• Lead elements of partner onboarding and enablement, working closely with ops and commercial teams.
• Actively collect feedback, convert it into changes, and push improvements into delivery.
• Work directly with marketing and communications teams to get solutions launch‑ready.
• Enable sales and distribution teams with practical tools, FAQs, and playbooks.
• Support deployment and hands‑on handover into operations.

Experience Required

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4 years years’ experience in a management position.
• Experience in product design, development, marketing or management within financial services, consulting, healthcare, or a related sector will be advantageous (Advantageous)
• Experience working in the provision of healthcare (Advantageous).

Qualifications Required

• Relevant Honors Degree in Actuarial Science, Business, Commerce, Management, Healthcare, Finance or related field is required.
• Masters Degree, MBA, PHD will be advantageous

Technical Skills or Knowledge

• Product design, development, marketing or management within financial services, consulting, healthcare, or a related sector
   

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Key Purpose

• The internship is for a period of a year, with the possibility of full-time employment thereafter. The role of the analyst will be to assist with the production and maintenance of reports and perform analyses related to these reports when required.  This encompasses data extraction, analysis, reporting, dashboarding and visualisation, as well as process automation. 

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Write SQL queries to produce data extracts for clients
• Support basic analytics requests
• Develop and maintain regular risk reports and reporting processes
• Contribute to process and report automation

Personal Attributes and Skills

Personal skills

• Attention to detail
• Problem-solving skills
• Reliable and timeous at completing tasks
• Communicate effectively
• Management and prioritisation of work
• Responsive to work pressures
• Adapt to change
• Work well within in a multi-disciplinary team
• Enthusiasm for learning and growth

Technical skills

• MS Excel (Intermediate)
• SQL (Basic)
• Basic statistics and analytics
• PowerBI/SSRS reporting tools (highly advantageous)

Education and Experience

• Matric
• Honours degree in one of the following (or related) fields:
• Information Systems and/or Technology
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Statistics
• Analytical work experience in the financial or health services industry (Advantageous)
• Exposure to working with MS SQL and/or reporting software (Advantageous)

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Job Purpose

• The Marketing Graduate Intern will support the HFS team aand work closely with our Vitality Marketing team in building brand awareness, engaging with customers, and executing campaigns that promote healthy living. This role is ideal for a creative and enthusiastic graduate looking to gain hands-on experience in digital marketing, content creation, and brand development within the food and wellness industry.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing Campaign Support

• Assist in the planning and execution of marketing campaigns across digital and in-store channels
• Support product launches, seasonal promotions, and health-focused campaigns
• Help coordinate campaign timelines and internal communication

Digital & Social Media Marketing

• Assist in managing HFS social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, etc.)
• Create, schedule, and monitor content performance

Content Creation

• Support the creation of engaging content including:
• Social media posts
• Email newsletters
• Blurbs, articles and recipes
• Promotional materials
• Maintain brand tone, visual identity, and messaging consistency

Brand & Customer Engagement

• Assist in building customer engagement strategies focused on healthy living through marketing efforts
• Support partnerships, influencer collaborations, and brand activations
• Help coordinate events and campaigns

Market Research & Insights

• Conduct research on food trends, health and wellness topics, and competitors
• Analyse campaign performance and prepare basic reports
• Gather customer feedback to support marketing improvements

Administrative Support

• Maintain marketing calendars and campaign trackers
• Coordinate with suppliers, creatives, and internal teams
• Assist with general marketing administration

Learning Outcomes / Development Opportunities

• Practical experience in a fast-paced food and wellness brand environment
• Exposure to digital marketing tools and social media strategy
• Hands-on content creation and brand storytelling experience
• Understanding of customer behaviour in the health and lifestyle sector
• Development of creativity, communication, and project management skills

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Honours degree in:
• Marketing
• Communications
• Business, Media, or related field

Experience

• No formal work experience required
• Any exposure to content creation, social media, or branding is advantageous

Skills and Competencies

Technical Skills

• Basic understanding of social media platforms and trends
• Competency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Familiarity with Canva or similar design tools
• Interest in digital marketing and content creation
   

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Key Purpose

• Responsible for reporting on and monitoring Discovery Invest’s financial performance through monthly management accounts and annual financial statements. Deliver accurate, relevant, and value-adding financial insights to support decision-making, ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements, and strengthen internal financial controls.

Key Responsibilities (Simplified)

• Prepare and review monthly financial reports for senior leadership.
• Analyse financial results and provide insights to support decision-making.
• Prepare financial statements in line with accounting standards (IFRS) and regulations.
• Combine (consolidate) financial results for unit trusts and investment funds.
• Submit financial data using OneStream for group reporting.
• Ensure the business meets regulatory requirements for capital adequacy.
• Prepare Budgets and forecast (income, expenses, assets, etc.).
• Analyse differences between actuals and budget and review with managers.
• Prepare asset allocation and regulatory reports (e.g. SAM, Stats SA, ASISA).
• Compile required financial disclosures (e.g. IFRS 7 reporting twice a year).

Education and Experience

• Newly Qualified CA(SA)
• Financial Services Experience
• Knowledge of IFRS 17 will be advantageous
   

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Job Purpose

• The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Calypso architecture, APIs, and Java development, along with a solid understanding of front-to-back trade flows across multiple asset classes. Also to translate business requirements into basic technical designs adhering to Discovery Bank Architecture standards.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with business/users, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas and following the best practices in all the aspects of software development lifecycle.
• Documents and demonstrate solutions by developing technical and functional documents, facilitating internal peer reviews to accomplish high quality of deliverables.
• Develop and maintain Calypso Workflows, Scheduled Tasks, and Messaging Components. 

Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to:

• Ensures that the application performs the functions as required by business.
• Ensures that the applications are maintainable and consider reuse, configurability, data footprints, processing speed, volumes and any other applicable non-functional requirements.
• Releases source code with zero defects.
• Leads and mentor’s junior developers during the code review process to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Provides technical support, resolves production queries, and conducts root cause analysis.
• Participates in Business Requirement Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Analyze business requirements and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst or Business User.
• Formulates technical solutions and review them with the development team.
• Produces Technical Design documents using the standard template and in accordance with Discovery Bank standards.
• Set up Technical Analysis JAD sessions with all stakeholders to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Implements Technical Specifications within the systems framework.
• Produces source code by applying technical standards and referencing existing components.
• Participates in the process of reviewing code for consistent application of standards, logic, and effective use of libraries and reusable aspects of the application.
• Responds to incidents escalated by the Incidents team.

Education and Experience:

• BSc Computer Science/Information Systems degree or other relevant degree from a recognised tertiary institution
• Formal Java qualification
• At least 6+ years of hands-on experience in Calypso development, including customization, extension, and implementation
• Expertise in the Calypso platform (e.g., versions 16+) including configuration and development.
• Experience working with the Calypso API for integration, customization, Calypso reporting modules and risk management tools.
• Proficiency in writing SQL queries to interact with Calypso database tables is mandatory.
• Understanding of back-office processes like SWIFT messages, Settlements, CREs, Accounting etc
• At least 6 years’ experience in source code development.
• At least 4 years’ experience in backend Java development
• Experience working with large data volumes
• Experience working in transactional systems

Technical skills or knowledge:

• Knowledge of SDLC, Unit Testing, Database structures, Technical Change Control
• Good understanding of Front-to-Back trade workflows in Calypso.
• Understanding of P&L, accounting setup, curves, and market data configuration.
• Strong knowledge of Fixed Income, FX, Interest Rate, and Credit Derivatives.
• Knowledge of Back Office operations – static data, transfers, settlements, and position configuration.
• Technical Stack
• Java 8 / 11
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Spring Web MVC (REST)
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
• Spring JMS
• Spring Kafka
• MyBatis
• HANA (ANSI SQL)
• JSON / Jackson
• XML / JAXB
• JUnit /Mockito
• Swagger
• Docker
• Openshift
• Jenkins
• Maven
• Git / Bitbucket
• IBM MQ
• Linux / Windows
• Ability to do Business Writing, Software development within SDLC, Data modelling and UML Design abilities