Job Description

Who are we?Sanlam is dedicated to supporting, growing, and empowering clients with affordable, easy, and suitable solutions, primarily through face-to-face intermediary channels, but also directly. We have approximately 2,000 tied advisers and 2,000 supporting independent brokers, all dedicated to meet the financial needs of our clients. Our vision: We aspire to be the best at building enduring relationships by connecting clients with Sanlam. We create sustainable value by attracting new clients, supporting ongoing client engagement, and providing adaptive solutions designed to answer life's financial questions. ULTIMATELY, WE EMPOWER PEOPLE TO BE FINANCIALLY CONFIDENT, SECURE AND PROSPEROUS.What will you do?This role represents the Business across multiple forums and business areas to ensure prioritisation and delivery of the business strategy and priorities through a portfolio of change initiatives.
The Product Owner's responsibilities span across the domains of business product, platform/channel and system (IT solution); and across the full development life-cycle from prioritization, define & design, development, integration, testing & training, delivery into the teams (both internally and business partners) and benefits realization.This role work very closely with the leadership team of the Business and contribute to Sanlam's overall objective of profitable growth.The role is responsible to:

• End to end accountability for product, platform/channel and systems (IT solutions) with intentional drive for value and innovation.
• Facilitate business strategy formulation process and vision. Research and analyse the market and best practices; follow our competitors and the industry.
• Demonstrate the ability and understanding to facilitate integration of products, platforms and systems, processes into the broader Sanlam strategy.
• Identify the future capabilities (People, Product, Process and Technology) that will enable the strategy; and defining a multi-year roadmap for delivery of capabilities.
• Actively participate in change initiatives and projects by providing vision and direction to the development teams and stakeholders throughout the initiative/project and create business requirements.
• Responsible for defining, prioritizing, evaluating and inspecting the work generated by delivery teams in order to ensure delivered features and functionality is supportive of realising the future business strategy.
• Assess value, develop use cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with the strategy and defined outcomes.
• Lead the planning of business and IT solution release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Responsible for the creation of a single prioritised backlog of value based outcomes.
• Facilitate a Business Product Owner and Subject Matter group across business areas to inform the business requirements.
• Work closely with all business units including Sanlam Business Solutions delivery organisation.
• Monitors progress and stakeholder satisfaction on delivery of value. Deploy capabilities into operational business. Balance scope, budget, and time, weighing priorities according to the needs and objectives.
• Define business cases for capabilities, in support of realising the strategy. Drive, track and realise benefits from various initiatives.
• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements to be undertaken with the various business areas, providing appropriate and effective solutions.

What will make you successful in this role?Qualifications and experience

• IT Relevant qualification
• Min 5 years' experience in roles which designed, led and/or implemented, engineered IT solutions
• Systems engineering
• Business process engineering
• Business intelligence & Business Analysis
• SQL & Data Analysis
• Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Scrum,SDLC
• Program Management
• Design thinking and GAP analysis
• Technical Document writing
• Systems Implementation Experience.

Knowledge and skillsIT/Systems/Tools:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be an advantage
• Knowledge of PPO, JIRA, and Confluence
• Working knowledge of the SAFe Agile methodology will be an advantage

Business:

• Sound financial services industry knowledge/context
• SanlamConnect knowledge
• Sales and advice processes/steps/standards/guidelines
• Agile methodologies and implementation practices
• Financial management proficiency. Solid understanding of budgets and variance reporting.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.

Core competencies

• Collaborates and Teaming
• Client focus
• Drives results
• Flexibility & adaptability
• Cultivates Innovation
• Critical Thinking
• Quality Decision-making
• High levels of emotional intelligence
• Demonstrate Agile values (Collaboration, Innovation, Nimble mindset)
• Oversight and Strategic Thinking ability

Personal attributes

• Effective at building partnerships
• Analytical with an eye to enhance systems and processes
• Willing to influence the thinking of stakeholders
• Comfortable having to collaborate with various role-players
• Able to maintain performance under pressure
• Effective leadership skills

Build a successful career with usWe'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 five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.Core CompetenciesBeing resilient - Contributing independentlyCollaborates - Contributing independentlyCultivates innovation - Contributing independentlyCustomer focus - Contributing independentlyDrives results - Contributing independentlyTurnaround timeThe closing date for applications is 6th of November 2024.The recruiter reserves the right to withdraw the advertisement prior to the closing date or to allow further applications to be submitted after the closing date indicated.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 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 - Life and Savings, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Corporate, Sanlam Investment, Santam, as well as the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.Our commitment to transformationThe Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment as we believe these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.

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