Manager: Predictive Analytics

6 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Santam Full time

What will you do?

We have an exciting opportunity for a business minded individual to develop analytical insights and implement appropriate rating and underwriting interventions across all distribution channels to ensure delivery of the Personal Lines profit and growth targets. This role role can be based in Cape Town or Johannesburg Key Responsibilities

To drive and implement predictive analytics initiatives for underwriting.
Automate underwriting rules and predictive underwriting through analytics manager.
Contribute, as member of Personal Lines underwriting management team, to the development, implementation, and execution of the Personal Lines underwriting strategies and priorities.
Shared responsibility for delivery of current and future strategic underwriting projects.
Shared responsibility for the setting and achievement of PL growth and profit targets with all distribution channels through pro-active trend analysis.
Prioritise appropriate corrective actions to address growth and profit deviations.
Liaise with Actuarial & Product Management on Santam’s Personal Lines pricing
- and product strategy and maintenance of product range to remain competitive.
Provide data insights to team and executives and develop commercially viable solutions and drive various process automations and efficiencies.
Contribute to new business model development and enable delivery thereof from a pricing and underwriting perspective.
Manage relationship with internal and external business partners - provide pricing and underwriting insights and expertise where required.
Lead a team of underwriting data analysts.
Analyse and build statistical models for various sets of data on a regular basis to assist in determining business trends. This includes forecasting models.
Predictive Underwriting model design and implementation.
Data quality control and data management.
Qualifications & Experience

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree - applicable major preferred (Statistics/Applied Maths/Engineering/Data science or related fields).
Minimum of 5 years’ strong Short-term insurance/Credit Data Analysis & Management experience is required.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in insurance products, systems and data management.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in predictive (AI/ML/GLM) model building.
Minimum 3-5 years’ experience operating at a management/lead analyst level.
Insurance-related qualifications, such as AIISA/FIISA, recommended but not required.

**Skills**:
Analytical skills (knowledge and experience)
Financial and Commercial acumen
Excellent people skills (relationship and stakeholder management)
Excellent communication, influencing and relationship building skills
Excellent multi-level task management and organisation skills
Analysing information
AI/ML/GLM Model building in Python
AI/ML/GLM Model building in SAS
Problem solving
Performing under pressure
Short-term insurance or Credit industry knowledge
Underwriting and financial concepts
Knowledge of Personal Lines pricing and underwriting systems
Competencies

Collaborates
Drives results
Flexible and adaptable
Cultivates innovation
Client focus
Developing and implementing strategy
Enterprising and commercial thinking
Deciding and initiating action
Leadership
Building networks and good relations
Negotiating and achieving workable solutions

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