Watershed Consulting Head of Product Gauteng Jobs in South Africa

Watershed Consulting Head of Product Gauteng Jobs in South Africa



Role Purpose
  • Lead role in creating and implementing strategies to manage, position and promote products, focusing on pricing, conceptualising, developing, implementing and managing product solutions and solutions capability for specific African markets.

    Requirements
  • Extensive experience in product management, product development and/or product pricing
  • Experience across more than one line of business
  • 8 - 10 years’ experience in relevant insurance industry
  • 5 - 7 years’ experience in senior leadership positions
  • Exposure to product development and client engagement

    Duties & Responsibilities
  • Understand the needs and strategies of the Africa business
  • Design, develop and implement new product solutions that are aligned with the needs of customers in the targeted customer segment
  • Co-create the appropriate product designs with the Country ExCo’s, Centre and CoE’s
  • Development and implementation of new products and benefits
  • Enhancements/changes to existing products and benefits
  • Formulate, or provide inputs to the formulation of, a customer-centric migration strategy on existing products when they are migrated to other legacy or new systems or platforms
  • Consult on the formulation of suitable actuarial basis items (e.g. mortality, disability decrements, lapses, etc.)
  • Oversee or control implementation of new initiatives from conceptualisation through to delivery, which will involve:
  • Ensure setting up of all administration processes, IT
    systems, legal, compliance and other required processes to deliver the product to market
  • Checking of marketing and training material and giving inputs into rolling out of the product to the sales force
  • Liaise closely with and provide input to the underwriting, claims and other peripheral departments
  • Be accountable for the product management (i.e. multi-faceted functioning of the product to meet priced objectives and customer outcomes) by adequately balancing the objectives of the different stakeholders
  • Profitability management of existing products as well as new products
  • Consolidation of existing products where appropriate

    Skills
  • Marketing, Product Design, Insurance Industry, Consolidation, Product Development, Relationship Management, Accountability, Compliance, Product Management, Leadership

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Watershed Consulting Head of Product Gauteng Jobs in South Africa

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