Job Vacancies at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• The role of the query analyst is to support both internal and external stakeholders with queries around benefits. Also to liaise with key stakeholders and maintain their relationships. In addition, the administrator will be responsible for identifying trends and to report on them.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional or non-functional business requirements and align data architecture with business requirements.
•  Processes, cleanses, and verifies the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant stakeholders, providing support to the entire department for its data centric needs.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information and translates the business requirements into data mining/science outcomes.

Presents findings and observations to team for development of recommendations.

• Data management sets for:Electricity consumption via
• Municipality/Landlord
• Power meter data
• Solar power
• Generator data
• HVAC
• Water consumption:
• Water meters
• Grey and rainwater
• Other consumption:
• Diesel data
• Gas data (Egoli & LPG)
• Systems data

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Takes initiative and works under own direction
• Works productively in a high-pressure environment
• Relates well to people at all levels
• Expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly
• Responds quickly to the needs of the client and to their reactions and feedback
• Writes in a well-structured and logical way
• Interpersonal skills
• Verbal & Written communication skills
• Resilience
• Attention to detail
• Time management skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Education and Experience

•  3 - 5 years working experience building and optimizing data sets. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
•  3 - 5 years strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
•  A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• PowerBI Development experience and development experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook

Proficient with the following computer packages:

• Ms Excel skills
• PowerBI Development experience and development experience

The following are advantageous criteria for the position

• Degree in Information Studies or Information Technology
• Knowledge of Power Apps and Power Automate.
• Microsoft Excel / Word / Outlook at an advanced level

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Key purpose

• Member of the Health Professional Unit (HPU), Value Based Care (VBC) team are responsible for health Professional risk management. The unit plays a key role in defining and implementing benefit changes and innovations by developing, implementing, and monitoring initiatives that achieve the best possible clinical outcomes with the highest levels of cost efficiency to meet Strategic Risk Management (SRM) and, Discovery health objectives.

Key outputs

• Build a deep understanding of risk management factors that inform client scheme sustainability
• Develop both the clinical and practice management insight into issues that impact care delivery
• Monitor, with the support of the SRM team, key metrics reflecting stakeholder cost and care utilization experience.
• Proactively identify and develop creative, shared value proposals for presentation to risk management and governance forums to address identified client scheme costs, administrative and stakeholder sentiment challenges
• Work within a shared value approach, to ensure successful development and implementation of approved projects
• Develop mechanisms to track the ongoing operations of initiatives and ensure they continue to deliver on intended objectives
• Work closely with Discovery Health service, operational and system teams to ensure the highest levels of responsiveness and service excellence to stakeholders
• Develop and maintain strong relationships between DH and identified stakeholders to for initiative consultation and implementation

Essential experience and knowledge required:

• Medical degree or a degree in Analytics
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in the health care industry
• 2 - 4 years clinical training experience
• Skilled working with Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Understanding of underlying care delivery process
• Consulting acumen
• Knowledge of Discovery Health products and coding
• Strong analytical acumen to be able to develop, guide implementation and track value-based care initiatives and the ability to work collaboratively with analytical teams – advantageous

Advantageous/Preferred Experience and Knowledge:

• At least 5 years of Health Funding or Corporate Health Care experience
• At least 5 years of Product Modeling and Design experience
• At least 5 years’ experience leading successful implementation of business initiatives or strategy

Skills required:

• Structured thinking and problem solving
• Organized time management
• Collaborative team member
• Confidence in doctor and society engagement with the support of the HP engagement team
• Flexibility in handling multiple projects simultaneously
• Taking initiative and working under own direction; self-starter
• Upholding ethics and values; demonstrates integrity
• Analytical and financial modeling

Personal Attributes

• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Drives Results
• Innovation, enthusiasm, and drive
• Inspirational leader who lives the values and believes in the core purpose
• Humble leader
• Treat others with care, dignity, and respect
• Ensures that the business case prevails
• Have a bias for action
• Understand that people are Discovery's greatest asset
• Build an environment for optimal performance

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Key Purpose

• To support the design and development of learning and leadership solutions to ensure that Discovery talent develop the skills and competencies to fulfil short and long term business needs.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

• Develop insights from data and events and use this to support the development of learning and leadership capability solutions.
• Support the development of best in class learning and leadership capability solutions.
• Collaborate with expertise pillars to share current thinking, best practice and ideas to generate the best possible learning and leadership solutions.
• To network with external specialists, communities of practice and academic institutions to identify global Learning and Leadership development themes and issues.
• Support and lead the implementation of new programmes or changes to existing programmes.
• Continually assess and evaluate the costs and benefits of Learning and Leadership development programmes and recommend changes as appropriate.
• To ensure that the systems, processes, policies and tools meet audit requirements and reporting standards 
• Support the design of interventions to ensure all managers have appropriate skills as individuals and as leaders to fulfil the organisation’s strategic ambitions.

Key Competency Areas:

Strategy, Insights and Solutions:

• Networks with experts and communities of practice externally to understand current trends and innovations and develop shared insights and priorities.
• Evaluates impact and results of Learning and Leadership Development programmes to ensure these meet organisation needs
• Articulates HR Learning and Leadership Development priorities at all levels: Metrics, business updates, emerging business needs or share best practice.
• Considers the bigger picture at all times, observing connections, and draw conclusions about the impact of events and activities on each other

Learning and Capability Development:

• Uses Business knowledge and skills gap diagnostic tools to assess the overall current and future Learning and Leadership Development requirements across the organisation. Determines short-, medium- and long-term strengths, gaps and needs.
• Uses internal and external insight to have a deep understanding of the required skills and capabilities to retain a competitive edge.
• Executes regular skills identification exercises across the organisation
• Ensures that business Learning teams & HRBPs understand and are fully engaged with skills identification and the development planning processes.
• Executes mapping exercises with external suppliers to determine potential skills shortages that need to be developed internally

Designing Learning and Development Solutions

• Designs and develops learning and leadership development interventions, collaborating internally and externally to incorporate relevant theories and models
• Works with Learning and Leadership development team to use leading edge interventions and adult learning and leadership theory /methodologies, to innovate on current thinking for Learning programmes
• Works with subject matter experts and takes the instructional design lead in the development of programmes.
• Uses external relationships to gain new insight on best practice interventions in the external marketplace and the evolution of profession
• Designs an appropriate blend of education, face-to-face training, experiential learning, e-learning, coaching and mentoring that are relevant to the learning styles of diverse groups.

Delivering Learning and Development Solutions

• Demonstrates advanced facilitation skills and can build this capability in others
• Facilitates learning events and workshops, delivering content as appropriate
• Ensures Learning Management programmes and communications are consistently activated across all Discovery companies

Supplier Management 

• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with suppliers for learning events/programmes
• Manage third-party learning and leadership development suppliers against agreed standards, contracts or service-level agreements
• Manages some external learning vendor relationships.

Evaluation and Measurement of Programmes:

• Evaluates and continuously improves Learning and Leadership development processes and solutions to ensure that they deliver the intended outcomes – using insight and feedback from HRBPs and pillar expertise leads
• Assesses and evaluates the costs and benefits of global Learning and Leadership Development programmes and recommends changes to improve business performance
• Demonstrates tangible business and performance benefits from pilots of learning interventions, and uses this data to communicate advantages to the business
• Develops processes to evaluate how the organisation's learning and capability plan is impacting the business. Uses feedback to identify gaps or unintended consequences
• Ensure Learning and Leadership development programmes are regularly refreshed

Organisation Development:

• Embeds the Discovery values, leadership charter and behavioural standards into the organisation through Learning and Leadership development programmes
• Supports Capability change programmes by working with pillar expertise teams to ensure they fully understand the rationale behind the programmes
• Anticipates obstacles with dynamic learning and leadership landscape and proactively works to remove them
• Uses analysis of data to measure progress against the planned business case for change, for a global learning programme. Uses this to influence discussion as to next steps with Learning Expertise Leadership
• Understands the rationale behind capability change programmes and is able to communicate this to pillar expertise teams.
• Builds own capability in core change philosophies and coaching practices

Personal Attributes and Skills

Personally credible: Builds and delivers professionalism through combining commercial and HR expertise to bring value to the organisation, stakeholders and peers:

• Considers how best to add value and ensures own expertise is sufficiently developed to do so.
• Shows enthusiasm to broaden own experience, knowledge, skills and self-insight
• Passes on own skills to others, sharing knowledge and experience readily.
• Accepts and acts on feedback on own performance, reacting appropriately to both constructive criticism and praise.
• Offers sensible, impartial advice and is considered as wise counsel.

Role Model: Acts with integrity, impartiality and independence, balancing personal, organisation and legal parameters.

• Has a deep sense of own core values and operates within personal boundaries.
• Consistently acts according to organisational and legal principles and agreed processes
• Delivers to expectations and promises
• Accepts responsibility and takes remedial and developmental action when mistakes are made.
• Deals with personal data and information in a highly professional manner and within the boundaries of relevant legislation.

Education and Experience

• Relevant 3 year degree and / or post graduate qualification

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Key Purpose

• To enable agile business growth while also pursing cost reduction, transformation and governance. this will extend to providing excellent service in the sourcing, supplier management, negotiations and reporting of procurement of goods and services

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop and maintain Procurement and subcontract plans for bids as required
• Conduct market analysis to establish a database of potential suppliers
• Liaise with Legal to ensure that commercial terms are contracted as per bid proposals
• Co-ordinate contract management for Procurement
• Bid administration
• Co-ordinate and manage site visits
• Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures.
• Maintain a data base of all relevant pricing and ensure this is updated regularly for use on current and future tenders
• Support the administration of all contract price escalation (annual/quarterly) indices, spend rebates
• Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new project tendering process, add value, and measures that can contribute to eventual business acquisition
• Ensure that a professional, consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships and ensure good communications at all times
• Explore alternate sources for goods, materials and services and consider guidelines where applicable
• Attend meetings and update all stakeholders on issues or concerns, in particular when there is a risk which could prevent the company from meeting tender demands
• Maintain effective working relationships with external customers and /or suppliers with a view to assess or improve the quality of the procurement and purchasing.
• Eliminate poor data quality and loss in cost savings opportunities
• Increase contract coverage and process efficienc

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Understanding Discovery’s internal structures
• Understanding of Discovery Corporate Identity
• Understand contract terms and risk mitigation
• Decisive and driven by deadlines, bias for action
• Willing to challenge ideas and provide suggestions which are in the best interests of the company

Education and Experience

• Matric
• Bachelor degree, preferably in Commerce, Legal or Business Administration
• 3 years of similar experience

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Key Purpose

• The Senior Procurement Manager will be responsible for implementing strategies, Optimising sourcing per category and managing  a team. The successful candidate will also be responsible for managing administration. The candidate will also be required supplier performance.

Key Performance Areas (KPA’s)

STRATEGIC

• Assume a lead role in developing and implementing commodity sourcing strategies based on existing and forecased spend
• Optimise sourcing per category  spend analysis and optimisation with a total cost of ownership approach
• Lead and/or participate on cross-functional teams to ensure that Discovery is leveraging spend and driving best value
• Support internal customers for the sourcing of goods and services. This is accomplished by following established and approved procurement policies and procedures in order to provide the lowest cost consistent with quality and service requirements while maintaining good supplier relations.
• Optimise procurement savings
• Support the administration of all contract price escalation (annual/quarterly) indices, spend rebates
• Maintain effective working relationships with external customers and /or suppliers with a view to assess or improve the quality of the procurement and purchasing.
• Provide technical specialist advice in the negotiating of service level agreements and pricing
• Eliminate poor data quality and loss in cost savings opportunities
• Increase contract coverage and process efficiency
• Manage supplier performance by conducting Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with strategic vendors and implementing remedial action to improve poor performance areas.
• Managing the CRES, IT and marketing commodity specialists as direct reports
• Prepare monthly reports for exco and recommend areas of improvement for the procurement division.

 OPERATIONAL

• Interface with line planning managers to plan and prioritise purchasing activities
• Interact and communicate with internal stakeholder to ensure that operational SLAs are met
• Interact and communicate with suppliers on a daily basis to resolve transactional issues and gather critical information (invoices, tracking info, tax docs etc.)
• Request competitive quotes and proposals
• Conduct contract pricing validation for all purchase requests under category management responsibility
• Review planned orders, create requisitions for purchased items
• Manage approval processes including the weekly IT forum approval process
• Review, update, and maintain purchase orders until they are closed (receipting)
• Resolving invoice price terms discrepancies to enable order processing
• Make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies, procedures, appropriate principles and applicable laws and regulations.

REPORTING

• Track SLA targets
• Track Open orders
• Track overall spending
• Track cost savings targets

Qualifications & Competencies
Qualifications & Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in supply chain/commerce/engineering/industrial psychology
• Minimum 3 Years’ experience in Procurement
• Experience in category management, preferably in IT
• Sage Experience (2 Years’ experience) will be an added advantage

Skills And Competencies

• able to operate independently and under pressure,
• able to perform multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities and to deal with changing priorities while maintaining personal effectiveness
• strong negotiation skills
• understand contract terms and risk mitigation
• able to communicate (orally and in writing) and be responsive to internal customer requirements
• be decisive and driven by deadlines, bias for action
• be willing to challenge ideas and provide suggestions which are in the best interests of the company
• able to work collaboratively with internal customers and other procurement professionals
• exhibit sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating and negotiating with internal customers and suppliers