People Analytics: Employee Experience: Group Human Resources at Sanlam

Who are we?

Sanlam was established as a life insurance company in South Africa but has since transformed into a diversified financial services group that operates across the African continent, India, Malaysia and selected developed markets, with listings on the Johannesburg, A2X and Namibian stock exchanges. In 2018 the Group celebrated its centenary as well as 20 years since demutualisation and listing in South Africa and Namibia. Sanlam is one of the 50 largest internationally active insurance groups in the world with a presence in 43 countries and has the biggest non-banking financial services footprint on the African continent.

The Group's four business clusters (Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam) house the Group's business operations. The Group provides strategic direction and support to the four clusters, assisting them in realising their strategies and meeting their business objectives. The Group Office is responsible for governance and for the Group's centralised functions, which include: Finance, Actuarial and Risk Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Market Development and Brand Services.

What will you do?

The incumbent is expected to provide insightful reports and recommendations from various data sources, and enable the Senior HR stakeholders to make data driven decisions around the people strategy and outputs. You would use your experience in formulating predictive hypothesis that will allow for development of pro-active solutions to mitigate any potential people risk. The digitization and interactiveness of reports is critical in line with the business digital transformation journey and thus keeping abreast of latest digital or technology enable reporting becomes important.
This role resides in the Group Office and reports to the Group Executive: Employee Experience and can be based in either Cape Town or Johannesburg.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Proactive, innovative and timeous delivery of data insights and reports in line with the people strategic focus areas
• Provision of equitable and appropriate balance of detailed and high-level data insights as required, to enable the right conversations with different stakeholders.
• Translate data and trends into stories to drive business decisions
• Where applicable, building and automation of reporting dashboards, which are simplified and easy to use.
• Audit data integrity, investigate concerns, and establish processes to streamline and improve data quality.
• Agility and flexibility in delivering between planned and spontaneous reports.
• Pro-active analyses of data to identify trends and patterns that impede employee experience.
• Partner cross functionally to help design and build out HR analytics data warehouse.
• Understanding of the organization and ability to apply business insights in managing complexities of various data points and reports across the group.

Qualifications, Experience And Knowledge

• Post Graduate qualification in Data Science and Analytics/ Finance and Economics/ Information systems/ Statistics/ Business Administration or any other related field.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in which you provided holistic and predictive insight to Senior stakeholders in businesses.
• Experience in using a broad variety of integration techniques, patterns, tools and methodologies
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Knowledge And Skills

• IT Data Analysis
• Data Collection
• Data Mining
• Advanced analytics to address business requirements
• New technologies and methodologies

Personal Attributes

• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing through others
• Decision quality - Contributing through others
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
• Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.