Job Description

CAREER OPPORTUNITYThis career opportunity is available at Santam Specialist Business,Agriculture Business Unit, for the Manager: Regional Underwriter West,who will be based in Bloemfontein.WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Assume overall responsibility of technical support to Distribution within the specific region in respect of Underwriting, Risk selection and Claims Assessments for the Crop portfolio with the explicit goal to support profitable growth in the agriculture market segment.

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE?

• Implementation and management of underwriting policy/Rules
• Risk management
• Audits on Claims, assessments and MPCI reports
• Support to product maintenance and enhancement
• Assume overall responsibility in the region for the quality of
• all loss assessments, training of permanent & part-time
• assessors on technical aspects as well as assessment
• procedures and reports
• Build and maintain loss assessment capability in the region
• that is sufficient to service the business at all time.
• Support with complex claims and assessment
• Responsible for re-assessments
• Manage and co-ordinates assessments during catastrophes
• Support to Research - evaluation and testing of assessment
• rules and guidelines
• Responsible for control assessment
• Represent region on the Underwriters & Insurance Support
• Meetings
• Assist in the development and maintenance of risk management solutions for the agricultural market.
• Analysing local, national, and global trends that impact both the organization and the industry
• Involved in the development and maintenance of risk management solutions. E.g., Minimum and maximus, e.g. excess options in certain areas.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Technical underwriting skills in crop insurance
• General and strategic management
• Organisational and analytical skills
• Ability to cope with conflict
• Verbal, written and interpersonal communication
• Efficient resources utilisation
• Employee development and performance quality management
• Underwriting principals and insurance knowledge
• Data mining & interpretation skills
• Leadership skills
• Presentation skills
• Planning skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Excel to be used for data set analyzing.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Align business practises to strategy
• Staff development
• Team player
• Organisation and Time management
• Innovation and introducing fresh ideas
• Leading by example
• Coping with pressure

WHO WE ARE:Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of
emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We're about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the
best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. 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. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity
targets.

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