Junior Strategic Growth Consultant

**Company Description** About Kaelo**
Kaelo provides essential healthcare solutions ensuring the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of all South Africans towards lasting social change. Kaelo meets the Healthcare needs of Corporate and Retail clients across South Africa - products offerings include Medical Insurance, Medical Aid, Gap Insurance, Kaelo Money and employee assistance programmes.

The purpose of the role is to provide support and oversee growth related key projects for Kaelo Group, offering administrative support, consulting, assistance, stakeholder communication, monitoring and evaluation. To support the Chief Strategy Officer in ensuring effective coordination, administration and project management of strategic business growth interventions and initiatives.

**KEY OUTCOMES**
- Ensure all administration relating to key growth initiatives is completed effectively as directed by the Chief Strategy Officer.
- Support key strategic new business stakeholder relationships for the business.
- Build and maintain strong trust-based relationships with key stakeholders from Kaelo, intermediaries and the client, at different levels of seniority and from various functional areas.
- Support Sales and New Business team by providing consulting services that deliver data and information relevant to their requirements to support strategic sales initiatives effectively.
- Formulate and communicate recommendations for client presentations. Work closely with business development and New Business teams to gather requirements and translate them into the client implementation plans.
- Strategise, plan and manage key stakeholder engagement events and marketing initiatives, supported by Chief Strategy Officer assistant for implementation.
- Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing with team.
- Support client engagement to drive the sales effort, whilst learning the deep technical health expertise and business background to highlight and position opportunities for Kaelo.
- Secure alignment of objectives, resolution of obstacles and problems and collaboration on strategic and operational decisions.
- Alongside the Chief Strategy Officer and the Kaelo New Business team, understand and support positioning of the capabilities and constraints of the solutions, based on developing an intimate knowledge of what the product, systems solution and business processes required.
- Support the Chief Strategy Officer in identifying key internal & external stakeholders to engage to ensure alignment on delivery roadmap.
- Manage and track Projects within the Strategy and Brand team.
- Proactively identify risks and problems and develop and recommend solutions to mitigate these risks. Track and measure engagement and product progress.
- Developing and maintain an integrated tracking roadmap and timeline.
- Support on-boarding process for acquiring new strategic growth clients.
- Synthesize and clearly communicate: Clearly understand strategic project priorities and value levers. Gather and analyse information.

**Qualifications** PERSON DETAILS: WORK EXPERIENCE**

**REQUIRED**

Health industry knowledge

Proven ability to support strategic selling to generate growth

Sales Campaign management

Confident and experienced communicator and critical thinker

**EDUCATION: QUALIFICATIONS: ACCREDITATIONS WITH PROFESSIONAL BODY**

**REQUIRED**

Bachelor’s degree

2 - 3 year working experience in corporate environment. Desired Skills and Qualities

Strong business acumen, ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast moving and often shifting work environment.
**Additional Information** TECHNICAL SKILLS OR KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED**
- Strong programme and Microsoft office management tool skills
- Knowledge of underwriting processes
- Relevant industry experience and competitor solutioning knowledge
- Exceptional communication skills both verbal and written, problem solving and analytical skills
- Decision Making Skills
- Organisational Skills
- Project Management Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Strategic Planning Skills
- Ability to work well within a variety of stakeholder teams
- Ability to work under stress and tight deadlines
- Knowledge of the Healthcare Industry
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Research and data analysis.
- Report Writing Analytical Skills
- Ability to be mobile and travel to meetings or client engagements.
- Organised, professional & punctual
- Stakeholder engagement events planning, marketing and management

**PREFERRED**

**KEY OUTCOMES**
- Manage and Maintain Intermediary & Key Strategic Partner Relationships