Business Project Manager

5 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Santam Full time

Who are we?
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 centred on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. What will you do?
A position as Business Project Manager exists in Outsourced Business in Auckland Park.
- Responsible for ensuring strategic alignment of initiatives for OB by the SPP and the Binder Holder.
- Responsible for managing relationships between Santam and the SPP’s through frequent engagements.
- Responsible for supporting the OB and Business Integration teams. Central point of contact at Santam for all SPP’s.
- Maintaining and reporting on initiative backlog. Drive the implementation of various initiatives through the SPP and Binder Holder.
- Compiling steerco pack for monthly meetings with the SPP’s. Chair, facilitate and minute the compulsory monthly Steerco meetings held with business.
- Prioritisation of new initiatives with the Outsourced Business Committee.
- Driving completion of initiatives timely and within budget.
- Attend monthly prioritisation meetings and provide feedback on the implementation of various initiatives to the Outsourced Business team.
- Responsible for managing the SPP initiative budget and estimation management; review of work orders and costing.
- Reviewing of invoices against work orders and facilitation of invoice payment.
- Attend meetings with Binders Holders, SPPs and Santam business teams relating to new deployments, migrations, issue resolution and provide guidance relating to requirements that may be required.
- Prepare for quarterly planning meetings and drive the discussion and agreement to the initiatives.
- Assist in driving delivery of data from the SPPs and Astute.
- Assist in driving completeness and accurate data for Outsourced Business.

**Qualifications**:

- A tertiary qualification in Business Management
- Higher Certificate in Insurance
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management

**Skills**:

- Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- QlikView and Qlik sense
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Understanding of the OB model would be an advantage Competencies Ability to build and maintain relationships Communication and strong facilitation skills Resilience Attention to detail and strong analytical skills Good project management skills Change management skills Innovative and creative skills Negotiating skills Ability to convince and influence Ability to drive project time-line Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters - Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development. Turnaround time
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.

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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