Business Project Manager

Santam Insurance; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in South Africa is looking for a candidate to manage Outsourced Business strategies and relationships. The ideal applicant will hold a tertiary qualification in Business Management, have a Higher Certificate in Insurance, and possess at least 5 years of project management experience. Key responsibilities include ensuring strategic alignment and driving project completion. This position offers growth opportunities in a diverse work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in project management.
• Skills in relevant software such as Microsoft Excel and QlikView.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Ensure strategic alignment for Outsourced Business initiatives.
• Manage relationships with System Platform Providers.
• Drive completion of initiatives within budget.

Skills

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

QlikView

Qlik Sense

JIRA

Confluence

Education

Tertiary qualification in Business Management

Higher Certificate in Insurance

Job description

Santam is the leading short-term insurer in South Africa. Along with its subsidiaries, the business transacts all classes of short-term insurance. Santam is a large, diversified, and transforming company and our success is rooted in our passion for our clients. Everything we do is centred on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper.

Job Description

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring strategic alignment of initiatives for Outsourced Business (OB) by the System Platform Providers (SPP's) and the Binder Holders. They will also be responsible for relationship management between Santam and the SPP's through frequent engagements, including supporting the Outsourced Business and Business Integration teams. This role will report to the Manager: Outsourced Business Operations.

• Ensure strategic alignment of initiatives for OB by the SPP and the Binder Holder.
• Manage relationships between Santam and the SPP's through frequent engagements.
• Support the OB and Business Integration teams.
• Central point of contact at Santam for all SPP's.
• Maintain and report on initiative backlog.
• Drive implementation of various initiatives through the SPP and Binder Holder.
• Piling steerco pack for monthly meetings with the SPP's.
• Chair, facilitate and minute the compulsory monthly Steerco meetings held with business.
• Prioritization of new initiatives with the Outsourced Business Committee.
• Drive completion of initiatives timely and within budget.
• Attend monthly prioritization meetings and provide feedback on the implementation of various initiatives to the Outsourced Business team.
• Manage the SPP initiative budget and estimation management; review of work orders and costing.
• Review invoices against work orders and facilitate invoice payment.
• Attend meetings with Binders Holders, SPPs and Santam business teams relating to new deployments, migrations, issue resolution and provide guidance relating to requirements that may be required.
• Prepare for quarterly planning meetings and drive the discussion and agreement to the initiatives.
• Assist in driving delivery of data from the SPPs and Astute.
• Assist in driving completeness and accurate data for Outsourced Business.

Qualifications and Experience

• A tertiary qualification in Business Management.
• Higher Certificate in Insurance.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in project management.
• Skills: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, QlikView and Qlik Sense, JIRA, Confluence.
• Understanding of the OB model would be an advantage.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Communication and strong facilitation skills.
• Resilience.
• Attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
• Innovative and creative skills.
• Ability to convince and influence.
• Ability to drive project time-line.

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 five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Our Commitment to Transformation

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.