Product Analyst

3 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

**Business Unit**:Discovery Life**Function**:Insurance (Long Term)**Date**:06-Mar-2023**Discovery Life**
- Product Analyst**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 Discovery Life**
- Discovery Life is an ever growing fast-paced and dynamic environment that provides innovative risk assurance to individual clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.**Key Purpose**

As a Product Analyst you will work hand-in-hand with the Product Development Team, Systems Architects, Systems Development, Business Analysts and Business operations teams to steer and guide the process of developing new and improved products from conception to launch. Success in this role hinges on your technical aptitude, quantitative abilities, and business acumen.

**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**:

- Assist the Product Specialist, Senior Business Architect or Enterprise Architect to define the priority of work and ensure delivery of work within defined timeline and ensure implementation meets business objectives.
- Assist the Product specialist, and at times be the product lead of, cross functional development teams for a component of a new product or feature or of an entire small project, and contribute to new product or feature implementation.
- Work with various stakeholders including Actuarial, Systems Development, Business, Marketing, Graphics-and-usability experts to ensure great member experience in product or feature enhancements.
- Conduct root cause analysis and investigation of production defects to ensure that Discovery Life systems operate efficiently.
- Update and, at times document, product specifications for small projects relating to implementation of new or enhancements to existing products or features.
- Collaborate, negotiate and co-ordinate with various stakeholders to produce and sign off Product requirements documents to ensure product requirements are developed and improved.
- Ensure all products or features are designed to optimise self-servicing and are operationally efficient.
- Be aware of Life business, customer experience, digital and innovations in this field to act as a consultant to guide Life’s new product or feature experience and enhance Life’s current product suite to achieve strategic outcomes.
- Develop knowledge of Life’s product offering and assess the impact of new products or features to the greater Life business.
- Contribute to formal and informal research to assist in product or feature design and refinement.
- Review test packs for testing of business requirements.
- Report and provide regular updates on progress to stakeholders to manage delivery of Product initiatives.
- Adherence to the agreed Systems Development Life cycle (SDLC) and standards for Systems development and automation.
- Assist and at times, facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with stakeholders and present solutions for new products or product enhancements.

**Education and Experience**

**Essential**:

- Matric
- Tertiary Education, preferably B Comm. (IS) or BSC (preferably in Information Systems or Actuarial Studies)

**Advantageous**:

- Minimum 1 to 2 years Product Analysis or Product Systems development experience within the Life Insurance Industry.
- IT or development training or certifications

**Technical Skills and Knowledge**

**Essential**:

- MS Office Suite (expert)
- SQL (Intermediate)
- Data Analytics
- Business Analysis
- System Analysis
- Excellent Communication skills
- Decision making skills
- System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Knowledge of the Life Insurance Industry
- Enterprise Architect tool

**Advantageous**
- Unified Modelling language (UML)
- Programming - Oracle/ Java/ Delphi/ C++
- Integration modelling/exposure in the Discovery Group
- Exposure to strategic planning
- Knowledge of:
- Life insurance business and systems
- Discovery Life Product
- EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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