Head: Healthcare Consulting - Gauteng

About Sanlam Corporate: Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success, embracing diversity and committed to transformation. We do this through living our values of having the courage to be bold, care, collaboration and an intolerance for mediocrity. 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. About Simeka Health: Simeka Health (Pty) Ltd (“Simeka Health”) has been providing healthcare advisory and service solutions to a diverse corporate client base in various industry sectors since 2001. We are one of the largest healthcare consulting firms in South Africa, having partnered with most open medical schemes nationwide. Over and above the schemes, we have a solid network of health insurance and corporate wellness partners. This not only provides our clients with choice, but also confirms the breadth and depth of our product expertise. Simeka Health offers a best advice philosophy across the healthcare value chain at a corporate and an individual level. Overall purpose of the role: To manage a National portfolio of clients as well as a team of Healthcare Consultants. To support and guide Principal Consultants on strategic consulting to employer groups within their portfolios. To co-ordinate and facilitate at a strategic level between various role players across the value chain, such as medical schemes, GAP cover providers, primary health insurance providers, etc. on behalf of clients and consultants within the portfolio, with the ultimate objective of overseeing the relationship of a portfolio of clients and in some instances working with Principal Consultants. Be overall responsible for the healthcare consulting capability, ensure adherence to compliance as a Key Individual, quality, sound and best advice, and to ultimately retain and increase the clients under management overall. Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that the healthcare consulting area is operating optimally.
• Ensuring the profitability of the business, as well as ensuring that new business targets are met
• Technical excellence in servicing corporate clients
• Ensuring TCF in client interaction through credible and qualified accredited consulting service and best advice
• Effective and independent management of a portfolio of clients
• Demonstrating client centricity
• Facilitating and co-ordinating internally as well as with other stakeholders
• Self and team development
• Build client relationships and ensure client retention

Key Responsibilities (continued):

• Ensure that the overall quality standard of meeting packs, minutes and consulting advice is maintained
• Attend client committee meetings in support of the team at a strategic level where necessary
• Provide monthly Manco reporting via required reports on operating functions of portfolio
• Direct employee training to improve efficiency
• Ensure that standard procedures, practices and client servicing are maintained and adhered to
• Risk awareness and the proactive management and mitigation of these risks
• Awareness of regulatory legislation and developments within the industry
• Deliver on budgets and targets
• Be instrumental in continuously demonstrating Simeka’s Health vision to become a thought leader
• Participation in growing the business
• Ensure that all compliance related aspects within the portfolio is adhered to

Qualification and Experience:

• B-Com Degree or BA Law / LLB or equivalent NQF level
• CFP advantageous
• FAIS and CMS accreditation required.
• Must be a Key Individual (RE5 and RE1 successfully completed)
• Own car and driver’s license
• Minimum of 7 years corporate healthcare consulting experience is required

Knowledge and Skills:

• A proven track record of managing large people areas are advantageous
• Experience in managing Profit & Loss
• Strategic thinking and understanding of employee benefit policies e.g. healthcare subsidy policy, etc.
• Knowledge of healthcare and wider financial services industry and process
• Product knowledge and understanding of all healthcare related products and services.
• Computer literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Core Competencies:

• Cultivates innovation by creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful
• Client focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations

Personal Qualities:

• Organisational savvy – Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process and people related organizational dynamics
• Manages complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Drives engagement – Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organisation achieve its objectives
• Business insight – Applying knowledge of the business and marketplace to advance the organisation’s goals
• Displays care – Showing care and consideration to our clients that extends beyond professionalism

Turnaround time The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. Our commitment to transformation

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.