Head: Commercial Prive at Santam Insurance

What will make you successful in this role?

• This successful person will be expected to play a strategic role in developing/growing the segment and positioning the organisation within the broader business community whilst interacting closely with other industry and business leaders.

Key responsibilities:

• The focus is on providing the appropriate channel strategies and mobilising the management team to deliver on these with their teams to achieve targeted growth objectives at profitable margins.
• Identify and drive business improvement opportunities.
• Growing the collective mid corporate property portfolio profitably,
• Manage stakeholder and value chain relationships, to ensure sustainability, profitability and business model success.
• Facilitating growth in all other areas in Intermediated Business
• Business Development
• Managing relationships with internal, external and industry partners.
• Adapting the strategy to fit market conditions and needs.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum Qualifications: Degree and Insurance related qualifications/ AIISA or FIISA or similar
• qualification
• RE1 and RE5
• Extensive financial services experience
• Must have Short Term Insurance (STI) experience.
• Extensive experience in business unit leadership
• Demonstrated commercial success in driving a profitable business.
• Leadership ability to lead and develop a sizeable team.
• Relevant experience in terms of managing relationships with business partners.
• Provide leadership that fosters performance culture.
• General managerial experience on a senior level
• Good knowledge and experience of strategic formulation and implementation
• Sound business relationships already established within the STI Industry
• Experience/knowledge of the legislative requirements within the property industry

Skills and Knowledge

• Up to date understanding of regulatory changes & translation thereof into Santam and the business area.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and have the energy, drive and enthusiasm to successfully operate within a high profile, market-leading organisation.
• Solid communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret results and implement corrective actions where required.
• Proven knowledge of the insurance industry
• Keeping updated on developments in the property industry and aligning business plans to address this market.
• Creating a purpose or vision for their part of the organisation that supports larger organisational goals and provides unique insight on this part of the organisation.
• Develops annual business plan and secures resources necessary to achieve identified.
• objectives consistent with appropriate consideration of medium-term requirements
• Determining of specialist reinsurance programs applicable to Commercial Prive

Comepetencies

• Driving strategy
• Commercial orientation
• Client focus
• Enabling innovation.
• Change leadership
• Continuous learning
• Team focussed leadership.
• Talent enablement
• Emotional intelligence