New Roles at ooba

RESPONSIBILITIES

BI and data Roadmap Planning:

• Develop and communicate a strategic plan for the ooba's BI and data infrastructure, encompassing ETL processes, data models, reporting tools, and cloud migration strategies which will be clearly outlined in a roadmap.
• Create end-to-end data solutions, considering cloud-native technologies, ETL optimizations, and data modeling best practices.

Reporting Excellence:

• Collaborate to development interactive and insightful reports using tools like PowerBI, catering to the specific needs of stakeholders across the organization.
• Collaborate on report visualization and delivery methods to meet the business needs.
• Creation of robust data extracts for analysis purposes and ensuring that this code is reusable when required elsewhere and these extracts become reports as required.

Data Governance and Compliance:

• Implement and enforce robust data governance policies, ensuring data security, quality and compliance with industry regulations and ooba's architectural and security standards.
• Code reviews, implementation reviews and sizing reviews of internal and external deliverables.
• Implement performance and health monitoring of BI systems, data integrations and reports performance and delivery.

Continuous Improvement and Training:

• Identify opportunities for process optimization and automation within the data pipeline, while also conducting training sessions for team members and end-users on new technologies and practices.
• Create the data structures, SQL queries, views etc. on which reports will be based and deliver reports in the BI  technologies available at ooba.

Other duties and things to consider

• Unified Data Model implementation: Implement a unified PowerBI data model, providing a cohesive structure for diverse data sources and facilitating seamless reporting and analytics.
• Cloud Migration Execution: If justified and we decide to go this route. Lead the execution of the cloud migration plan, ensuring a smooth transition of data solutions to cloud platforms while minimizing disruptions.
• ETL Optimization: Continuously optimize ETL processes for efficiency, scalability, and reliability, ensuring timely and accurate data extraction, transformation and loading.
• Consolidation and Integration: Establish and maintain a consolidated database that integrates data from various sources, emphasizing data quality, integrity and accessibility.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between tchnical and non-technical teams, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their data needs and align solutions accordingly.
• Help to analyse/identify and implement data fixes.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of recent BI Developer (or Oracle SQL)
• Microsoft Power BI and MS Excel advanced
• Relational database systems
• Working on an enterprise level BI development platform
• Data Science or ICT diploma/degree

Critical Competencies

• Accuracy
• Devotion to quality
• Planning
• Performing under pressure
• Result-oriented
• Analyzing and forming opinions
• Creating support
• Cooperation
• Assertiveness

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• The purpose of the role is promoting the sale of Insurance Financial Services product to newly sourced and existing customers, through an aggregation quoting platform and ensuring the consistent delivery of customer service excellence. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contacting clients

• Positioning short term personal lines product offerings
• Complete the customer voice recording/application
• Closing a sale
• Attaining the call centre strike rates
• Reaching various targets
• Ensuring that records are accurately captured and updated
• Being compliant
• Ensure clients are assisted and supplied with the relevant information

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications:

• Essential: Grade 12
• Essential: Sales & contact centre experience
• Beneficial: FAIS and RE5
• Beneficial: Insurance experience

Critical Competencies:

• Accuracy
• Performing under pressure
• Results-Oriented
• Client-Focused
• Listening Skills
• Persuasiveness
• Social Skills
• Commercial Drive

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• The Marketing Manager leads the overall marketing function for the brands under their care.  The successful candidate will work in partnership with our Sales Enablement, Operations, In-house studio and Agency teams, to drive brand growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Executes compelling, innovative, and integrated evergreen marketing communications, based on the marketing calendar
• Owns all campaign & promotional rollouts, and with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, ensures all deadlines are adhered to, driving executional excellence
• Conceptualises, briefs, and delivers creative brand-building, promotional and growth campaigns, including the creation of strong visuals and collateral to convey messaging, in collaboration with the in-house creative studio and functional experts
• Budget management – Sets up budgets and manages implementation to come in on budget.
• Tracks & understands key brand growth metrics (new customer acquisition & retention), and develops relevant campaigns to drives sales growth & address negative changes in key metrics
• Add value strategically on all projects across the portfolio

QUALIFICATIONS

• Min. 3+ years in a Group Account Director role at an agency or 1 year as a Business Unit Director role at an agency or 2 years as a senior strategist.
• Analytical, critical, and strategic thinking capabilities
• Commercial acumen
• Innovative
• Results and solutions orientated
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Highly motivated with a strong work ethic
• Excellent communication (written & verbal) and influencing skills
• Strong Internal and external presentation ability
• Strong people management capabilities with a natural ability to inspire
• Agile and proactive
• Strategic, big brand experience, knowledge, and ability – essential
• Advertising agency experience – essential
• Professional and well presented
• Dynamic, driven and a go-getter attitude