Regional Manager

Who are we?
Sanlam Developing Markets [SDM] (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanlam Life Limited) is one of the top financial services providers in the South African entry-level and emerging middle market. It aims to understand the unique requirements of clients and offers a wide range of simple and affordable financial solutions that cover needs such as funeral insurance, savings for education, life cover and personal accident plans. In terms of the Sanlam Group Governance Policy, SDM is managed by the SA Retail Mass cluster, which is part of the Sanlam Life and Savings cluster within the Sanlam Group. The cluster focusses on retail products, as well as group schemes.
Sanlam Values
- Lead with courage
- Serve with pride
- Care because we respect each other
- Act with integrity & accountability
- Grow value through innovation & superior performance

What will you do?
- To drive the strategy to obtain new business from existing brokerages and Sanlam affiliated intermediaries (SAI)
- To drive the recruitment of new brokerages and SAI’s
- Management of business quality and bad debt
- Achieve financial and operational results
- Management and leadership of staff

What will make you successful in this role?
Qualification & experience
- Matric
- Certificate of Wealth Management.
- Diploma in Sales Management advantageous
- RE 5 and/or 1
- At least 10 years relevant experience within the insurance industry of which at least 3 years in a management role.
- MS Office Intermediate knowledge
- Financial acumen
- Well-developed management and leadership practices

Knowledge and skills
- MS Office Intermediate knowledge
- Financial acumen
- Well-developed management and leadership practices

Personal qualities
- Analysing
- Technical expertise
- Team management
- Adapting and responding to change
- Coping with pressures and setbacks
- Adhering to principles and values
- Formulating strategies and concepts
- Confidence and decisiveness
- Pro-activity
- Planning and organising
- Quality and detail orientation
- Persuading and influencing
- Client service orientation
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Achieving personal work goals and objectives

Our aim is to help you 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 business clusters - Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Turnaround times
The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. 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 as well as people with disabilities.
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.