Business Unit: Discovery Employee Benefits

Function: Investments / Portfolio Management / Wealth Manage

Date: 11 Nov 2024

• Group Risk
• Retirement Funds
• Healthy Company
• Strategic Clients Solutions Hub.
• Integration projects with Discovery Health, Vitality and Insure

• Presenting at prospective employer clients
• Presenting at product launches and client pitches
• Providing ongoing sales support to the Discovery distribution teams
• Presenting to intermediaries and other investment specialists on technical product information.
• Handling ongoing technical investment queries
• Compiling material (including Discoverers and articles) that can be rolled out through PR campaigns and to intermediaries and liaising with media to manage the rollout.
• Training internal and external staff and brokers on products and technical details
• Reporting back on performance at client manco meetings on product, admin and investments
• Building new sales material including brochures, presentations on short videos

• Deeply understanding the corporate market and competitors, researching competitor products, and working that knowledge and insight into product development and distribution support materials.
• Developing research material that can be used to position Discovery as a thought leader in the market.
• Developing actuarial white papers to drive thought leadership in the investment space

• Developing new ideas around our retirement fund investment proposition, including new funds from multi manager to passive, and refining our retirement fund value proposition over time.
• Performing technical calculations including IRR runs, data analysis and pricing on our retirement fund
• Working with product development on the broader group risk and healthy company propositions to help position new solutions for clients and tools for intermediaries.
• Building calculators and tools that help advisers and clients understand our purpose and products.
• Designing a framework to measure the effectiveness of different marketing campaigns.

• Discovery sales consultants and intermediaries
• Back-office operations
• Training teams
• Marketing services
• Product development
• Distribution heads
• Discovery management and executives.

• Demonstrate keen business acumen.
• Interact positively with difficult people.
• Manage various projects effectively.
• Plan, organize and deliver on individual deliverables.
• Deal with pressure, tight deadlines and setbacks.
• Present and communicate information effectively.
• Understand and work with big data sets in order to achieve desired outcome
• Show initiative and drive projects to completion with guidance.

• Nearly qualified actuary, CFA, or financial manager
• 1 - 2 years’ investment experience
• Top achiever
• Excellent English and presentation skills
• Excellent Excel skills

Employment Equity
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.