Product Manager

2 months ago


Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

**Business Unit**:Discovery Central Services**Function**:Product Management (Technical)**Date**:12 Jul 2023**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.**About Vitality Global**
- Vitality Global, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited is responsible for the expansion of the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance business model beyond South Africa and the UK, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property of Discovery beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate Vitality and shared value with partner’s insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Global also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Health International, a business unit within Vitality Global coordinates and focuses on resource allocation to Discovery’s emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Vitality Global is also responsible for Discovery’s 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China. Taken together, Vitality’s businesses jointly reach more than 30 million lives across 40 markets; delivered through partnerships with leading insurers in every continent around the world.**About Ping An Health**

Ping An Group is a world-leading technology-powered personal financial services group, which applies innovations to drive technology-powered business transformation and build a world-leading healthcare ecosystem. Ping An Group has 227m retail clients and 647m online users. Ranked first in the Global Brand Finance Insurance 100 and sixth in Forbes Global 2000, Ping An is a powerful brand across China.

Ping An Health is a dynamic business in a vibrant and rapidly evolving market. Ping An Health’s extraordinary success as a specialist health insurer in China has been fueled by digital technology, data analytics, and the role of Shared-Value and wellness in the business model. Since 2010, Discovery has owned a 25% equity stake in Ping An Health.

**About the role**
- This is an expat assignment in Shanghai, China. The Product Manager is ultimately responsible for working with Ping An Health (PAH) to co-develop core Vitality + Insurance capabilities to drive sustainable business growth in China. Through understanding the local market environment, cultivating strong relationships with Ping An colleagues, and identifying which areas of Discovery’s expertise can be adapted and leveraged, the role is to ensure the effective localization and joint implementation of strategic projects.**Key Outputs / Job Responsibilities may include but are not limited to**:

- Vitality Shared-Value insurance capability localization.
- Managing the transfer of Vitality and Shared-Value insurance capabilities and best practice to PAH across a range of functions, including R&D, actuarial, marketing, risk management, operations, systems, and distribution.
- Supporting the design, rollout, and ongoing enhancement of the Vitality proposition and Shared-Value insurance in order to ensure:

- Alignment with Vitality principles.
- Incorporation of the latest global Vitality strategies and findings, and the latest advancements in health and wellness.
- PAH Shared-Value strategy
- Maintaining an ongoing understanding of the complete business context, in order to identify opportunities to localize and implement Discovery capabilities.
- Identifying practical pathways for implementable solutions, given the current status of PAH capabilities and objectives.
- Building a strategic business outlook to identify future ongoing opportunities for DSY capabilities to be effectively localized and implemented in PAH.
- Product management
- Securing alignment of objectives, resolution of obstacles and problems, and collaboration on strategic and operational decisions, with PAH, by creating and maintaining impactful relationships.
- Coordinating resources across PAH and DSY to effectively localize and transfer Shared-Value capabilities.
- Mobilizing DSY and PAH resources to adapt, localize and, where required, find ways to re-develop DSY capabilities and methodologies to suit the local Chinese market.
- Stakeholder management
- Locally work together with PAH colleagues to collaborate, manage, and co-deliver PAH-DSY key projects, and, critically, be accountable for implementation results.
- Maintaining a strong “trusted advisor” relationship with all PAH stakeholde


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