Head: Data Science

2 weeks ago

Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa Sanlam Full time

About Sanlam & SFT


Sanlam is a leading financial services group, recognized for our innovative approach towards providing comprehensive insurance, investment, health, and credit solutions to millions of clients across Africa.

Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent.

We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. And we're hiring top talent from around the world to make it happen.

  • About the role
  • As science and analytics leader your work is a canvas for change, painted with the data you explore and the insights you uncover. You're not just joining a team; you're embarking on a mission to reshape the financial landscape, making tomorrow not just different, but better. Turning data into pathways, obstacles into stepping stones, and potential into reality. Together, we can transform financial confidence across Africa, one insight & ML model at a time.
  • What you'll achieve in the first 12 months?
    We have successfully transformed 3 business units in Sanlam FinTech into an insights and MLled organizations. Successfully deploy insights and machine learning across our business, from the financial & digital products we develop to the growth campaigns we run. Collaborate with the commercial leaders in every business unit to budget for and introduce data science and analytics capabilities into their teams and insights and ML models into their products and processes. Success will be measured by the successful activation of full data scientists and analysts' resources towards the business units OKRs, and the successful deployment of at least 1 ML model into a client facing product.
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We can attract and incubate world class data talent:Scope roles, clarify needs, build an appetite for investing in data scientists. Ensure successful hiring for these roles, with success measured by the attainment of company objectives and the retention rate of new hires, specifically their 12-month anniversary milestone.
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We have created the ideal environment for high performance data-enriched teams. Continuously surface any challenges faced by the data folks embedded into their commercial teams, and lead initiatives to overcome them. Surface issues affecting team motivation and impact and implementing necessary changes to our regular rhythms monthly. Success will be measured by the absence of recurring themes for improvement in data-wide retros.
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Sanlam FinTech is the best place for your team to grow and thrive. Actively support the personal and professional development of the data team members. Facilitate opportunities for team members to advance their skills and knowledge as data professionals. Success in this area will be measured by the team's growth and achievements in their respective fields.
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Be like Yoda Primarily lead by mentoring, supporting, and activating through others, but unblock the team when they hit complex analytical barriers. Dive in to clarify and simplify or otherwise advise on a first move to help them get going (and then get better) so they can continue to own their domain autonomously. Success will be measured in the number of consecutive monthly retros where the team has been blocked due to a lack of clarity and/or formalization around the problems they need to solve.

  • How you'll think
  • You're high agency. Looking for ways to do, instead of reasons not to.
  • Where some see impossible, you see a way: Turning obstacles into opportunity, chance into change.
  • You love creating more with less. Knowing that the biggest impact is born of the smallest acts.
  • You seek out and value different perspectives. Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes. Making tomorrow not just different, but better.


 What you'll enjoy
  • Being in a high ownership, high ambiguity, high autonomy environment where the impact of the your work matters. The ideal environment for your capability growth.
  • Learn from the best. Get guidance from some of the most seasoned professionals around. Our mentorship vibe is all about growing together, both professionally and personally.
  • Diving into projects that touch the lives of millions. Making a real difference in how people manage their money and plan their lives.
  • Working with modern technologies, from Snowflake to SageMaker and AIas a service AWS, leverage world class technologies to launch into your work

Qualification and Experience

  • Degree or Diploma with 4 to 6 years related experience.
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