Operations Executive - HIV and Oncology Sandton at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose:

• To ensure that Area reaches or exceed all their deliverables and to ensure satisfaction on the part of DiscoveryCare with the service offered to them by optimising the area processes and functions.

Please note that internal candidates will be given preference.

Key Outputs:

The successful applicant will report to the Head of Discovery Care.

Job responsibilities include among others the following:

• Overseeing the success of the division by liaising with major stakeholders in the business.
• Building effective relationships to create strategies and translate these into effective deliverables to ensure successful execution thereof.
• Owning and chairing key forums with participants at an executive level.
• Constant interaction with highly strategic thinkers and relationship building on an executive business level.
• Developing strategic and operational plans to drive, lead, and represent all projects and key initiatives impacting the division.
• Provide direction for the division through actively communicating and being a visionary leader.
• Developing and generating appropriate reporting to business in respect of your division.
• Developing and implement annual business, strategic and implementation plans.
• Monitor the implementation of risk management strategies with the Division.
• Keeping abreast with legislative and industry changes and how this affects your business units.
• Analysing and problem solving by identifying key issues and relationships from a base of information.
• Constantly challenging and shaping the status quo.
• Effective decision-making by applying entrepreneurial knowledge and “out of the box” thinking and weighing up the risks involved.
• To manage direct reports and to ensure that they are guided, coached and mentored to effectively manage their own teams.
• To develop an operational strategy for the area based on the Strategic Risk Management strategy and to ensure that the operational strategy is effectively implemented and rolled out in the area.
• To set and manage the budgets of the area and to report monthly on variances.
• To identify areas where efficiencies can be created and to implement plans in order to optimise efficiencies in the area in order to deliver customers a great service and in order to meet all SLAs.
• To build and maintain relations with all DiscoveryCare stakeholders