Senior AI Actuary & Process Intelligence Lead

Discovery Ltd.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovery seeks a Senior AI Actuary to lead AI and automation initiatives within Discovery Insure. You will drive the Process Intelligence strategy, prioritise opportunities, and govern cross-functional squads.

You will quantify value, manage vendors, and lead teams to deliver measurable outcomes across claims, underwriting and operations. You will partner with systems and business stakeholders to standardise processes, design experiments, and communicate impact to executives.

Qualifications

• Actuarial analysis for business cases and value tracking.
• Experimental design with A/B testing and control groups.
• Understanding of AI, RPA, ML and practical business application.
• Evaluate third-party solutions and contracts (build-vs-buy).
• Process intelligence, mining, mapping and sizing insights.
• Prioritisation, governance and capacity planning across AI squads.
• Executive communication and stakeholder management at leadership level.
• Leading and developing Process Intelligence Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI Automation Strategy as Process Intelligence Lead and roll-out squads.
• Size and prioritise AI, automation opportunities with business cases.
• Own portfolio governance and capacity planning across squads.
• Measure value, baselines, KPIs and savings post go-lives.
• Evaluate third-party AI/tools and manage vendor relationships.
• Coach and develop Process Intelligence Engineers across the team.
• Collaborate with Systems, Operations and stakeholders to standardise processes.
• Design experiments to assess impact of AI interventions.
• Report progress to Exco and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Actuarial analysis

Experiment design

AI literacy

Vendor evaluation

Process mining

Portfolio governance

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Process mining tools

Microsoft AI stack

Change management

Education

Matric

Honours in Actuarial Science

FASSA/AMASSA

Tools

Celonis

Soroco

Mimica

Power Automate

Azure AI

Job description

Discovery seeks a Senior AI Actuary to lead AI and automation initiatives within Discovery Insure. You will drive the Process Intelligence strategy, prioritise opportunities, and govern cross-functional squads.

You will quantify value, manage vendors, and lead teams to deliver measurable outcomes across claims, underwriting and operations. You will partner with systems and business stakeholders to standardise processes, design experiments, and communicate impact to executives.