Business Development Consultant

1 week ago


Bellville, South Africa Sanlam Full time

**WHAT WILL YOU DO?**
- A position has become available for a Business Development Consultant at Santam Direct, based in their Johannesburg / Belville offices.- This role fulfils the execution of strategic business development initiatives (new and existing) to achieve the Business Unit's current and future growth opportunities in the direct insurance market, and build our competitiveness and future market share through existing and new distribution channels, including strategic business partners, traditional lead providers, brokers, dealerships etc.- In addition, the BDC will take full accountability for identifying potential business partnerships, maintaining good and solid relationships, securing new business opportunities, and promoting the Santam brand and product offerings for Personal and Commercial Insurance to achieve business growth targets set.- The BDC will be responsible for all due diligence linked to the onboarding of new Direct Business Partners, ensuring that all compliance and legislative elements pertaining to NDAs, contracting, SLAs, and reporting are executed timely and accurately. This role will also be responsible for maintaining strong business relationships with all Direct Partners in line with Santam's values, mission, and vision strategy.- PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES- Sourcing high intent sales opportunities, in line with Santam's risk appetite
- Achieve maintain all partnership strategies to deliver on all contracted targets
- Maintain a healthy business relationship at a strategic and operational level
- Responsible for negotiating capacity and support from other teams within Santam to support new and existing Business Partnerships
- Keep abreast of any developments within our partners and manage the portfolio of business through analysis, interpretation and decision making
- Responsible for all Direct Business Partner contracting and adherence to any governance and legislative requirements. Also responsible for annual renewed contracting where required
- Constant communication and pointers to the Business Development Manager in order to achieve targets, maintain relationships, adhere to any legislation changes etc. that may apply.
- Proactively identify operational or procedural obstacles and problems, determine impact patterns and trends analysis by identifying best fit alternatives design best practice solutions
- Manage effective SLA's with internal and external stakeholders
- Proactively identify operational or procedural obstacles and problems, determine impact patterns and trends analysis by identifying best fit alternatives design best practice solutions
- QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE- Matric, plus university admission
- Relevant insurance qualification
- Fais compliant, including RE certificate
- Valid driver's license
- Five years relationship management experience
- Experience in a direct non-life OR short-term insurance environment preferential
- Minimum of 3 years short term insurance experience essential
- SKILLS- Microsoft Office - Excel, Word and Power Point
- Proven ability to manage relationships with partners
- Ability to negotiate and conclude partnerships
- Technical insurance knowledge essential - Sales, Underwriting, QA,
- Rating and Loss Ratio (high level information)
- Effective internal and external stakeholder management
- Administration function in ensuring that contracts are in place, compliance and legislative requirements are being met and reports to Business Partners are timeous and value adding
- Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
- Problem solving skills
- BEHAVIORAL ATTRIBUTES- Builds effective teams
- Decision quality
- Directs work
- Plans and aligns
- WHO WE ARE- Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.



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