Executive Head: Wellness and Strategy
7 months ago
**Job Advert Summary**:
Hello an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Hollard Group Risk.
Hollard Group Risk (HGR) seeks to attract a suitably qualified **Executive Head: Wellness and Strategy** because of business growth and strategic plans.
The person will have responsibility for developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining corporate strategic initiatives for the HGR business.
The person will play a key role in contributing to HGR’s strategic initiatives and ensuring a holistic view and direction across all HGR areas.
The individual will work closely with the Actuarial, Business Development and Operations areas to provide health/medical related input in pricing decisions, product development, reinsurance, broker and client education and efficient and integrated administration processes.
The person will be responsible for identifying key risk areas in the current disability management and underwriting practices and processes and ensuring that adequate measures are in place to measure and mitigate these risks.
The Executive Head: Wellness and Strategy will report to the Chief Executive Officer and serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
The incumbent will be tasked with shaping thought leadership, intelligence gathering, training and leading the Disability management and Underwriting teams.
The person must be mature, agile, a team player with a medical background, be strategic with strong commercial and leadership skills. He/she will need to understand the effect of economic, health, social and political risk, and its relationship with insurance business risk.
Contribute to the strategic direction of HGR and provide strategic alignment of distribution, disability management, underwriting and strategic initiatives to business strategy
Lead the disability management and underwriting teams with overall responsibility for all medical related insurance aspects of the business.
Product design and pricing - provide appropriate medical and disability risk input in the design of products, pricing of schemes and pricing basis setting to ensure competitive and well-informed offerings to clients.
Design and propose best practices around disability management and underwriting.
Drive medical and technological innovation for HGR, particularly in the claims management, underwriting and data analytics functions.
Engage on all health/medical related matters with key stakeholders, including the business development, actuarial and operations teams, in addition to other internal forums within the Group.
Perform claim assessment and underwriting activities.
Produce appropriate reports for internal management, Risk & Compliance committee and other internal forums as well as the Advisory Board.
In collaboration with the actuarial team, engage with reinsurers to ensure best offerings for HGR in terms of risk and claims management, free cover limits, retention and authorisation limits.
Establish and drive wellness programmes and initiatives for employers with the aim to improve overall wellbeing for members and value for employers.
Engage with the media, brokers and clients on relevant thought leadership topics to ascertain HGR as group risk industry leaders.
Ad-hoc reporting to key stakeholders
Build relationships with key stakeholders within the business, the Group and externally.
**Required Knowledge and Experience**:
Detailed knowledge of best practices, tools and techniques relating to claim assessments, management, and underwriting
Proven track record of developing and implementing strategic initiatives
A knowledge/understanding of the (re)insurance industry (preferably South Africa, but global knowledge will be acknowledged), business management skills (analysis, financial acumen, strategic capacity)
Proven ability to lead a diverse team.
Experience in dealing with complex and multiple internal and external stakeholders.
**Educational Requirements**:
Degree in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, or a related field
At least 15 years of proven functional experience in disability claims management and underwriting in a Group risk business within South Africa of which at least 10 years on management level.
Experience relevant to long and/or short-term insurance industry
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