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Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.
Job Description
Oversees the execution of IT & Digital strategy that optimises employee capabilities, achieves the organisation's strategic objectives, and delivers competitive advantage.
Responsibilities
Functional Strategy Formation
Lead the development and implementation of strategy for a significant area of responsibility, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider corporate strategy.
Enterprise Architecture
- Develop a strategic architecture plan, ensuring that data features are prioritized appropriately, estimates are reliable, benefits can be realized, and design activities are proactively monitored and tracked to meet planned time frames and the overall architecture plan.
Enterprise Infrastructure Modernization
- Define strategy for an enterprise architecture function that embeds digital assets and capabilities, supporting the design and implementation of digital strategy and organization, process, and policies. Lead analysis, evaluation, and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the enterprise architecture is synchronized with ever-changing business needs and the complexity of digital transformation.
Infrastructure and Network Development and Maintenance
- Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met.
Application Software Development
- Develop the most-complex existing and new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop new applications to meet customer requirements.
Data Management
- Take responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organization's data management system.
Horizon Scanning
- Identify new external developments and/or emerging issues within an area of technology or business function and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
Budgeting
- Manage budget plans for a department. May involve development or delivery or both.
Leadership and Direction
- Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Organizational Capability Building
- Evaluate the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement the organization's formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility. Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization's talent pool.
Performance Management
- Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
External Consultant or Contractor Engagement
- Identify the requirement for, and participate in the selection of, external consultants or advisers to deliver key projects and/or ad hoc services; ensure business objectives and requirements are clearly understood and monitor outcomes, taking appropriate remedial action where necessary.
Competencies
- Business Insight
- Cultivates Innovation
- Drives Results
- Ensures Accountability
- Manages Complexity
- Nimble Learning
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Strategic Mindset
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Job Description
Reporting to the Underwriting Manager, Health, this role serves to provide clinical support aimed at maintaining a profitable and efficient retail health insurance portfolio.
The key tasks assigned to this role include:
- Continuously reinforcing and implementing experience-based underwriting discipline.
- Providing flexibility in offering tailor-made retail client solutions, with adequate pricing controls in place.
- Providing technical support to the retention and business development teams in pricing discussions and ensuring accurate quoting for SME schemes and retail policies.
- Reviewing performance by product on a quarterly basis to monitor trends.
- Ensuring that policy wordings remain full-proof, clear and free of subjectivity.
- Evaluating the quality of existing data sources to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Continuously researching on health trends that the business should look out for when accepting new policies.
- Recommending product adjustments necessary to match the changing clinical needs of the retail and SME clients to ensure that products remain competitive.
- Implementing feedback loops to continuously improve the efficiency of the enrolment and renewal process.
- Leveraging statistical analysis to identify patterns and trends within the data to provide insight to support decision making at various levels within the business.
- Performing scenario analysis to assess the impact of different factors on underwriting and claims decision-making.
- Proposing enhancements to the insurance products and services to improve the overall customer experience.
- Carrying out intermediary and scheme-based monthly reporting to flag the poorly performing entities and propose remedial actions for them.
- Conducting research and supporting development of business cases for new and revamped products from a clinical perspective.
- Recommend health interventions to the insured members based on observed claiming trends.
- Ensure that products remain up to date with clinical best-practice global health insurance trends.
- Training staff and supporting launch to market of new and revamped products.
- Providing clinical support to potential strategic business partnerships.
Qualifications
- University degree in an insurance, finance or health related field.
- Have a valid membership of the relevant professional entity eg Nursing council.
- At least 3 years’ experience in retail underwriting.
- Have clinical background – Nursing/Clinical Officer
- Experience in leading a team.
- Professional qualification in insurance or significant progress in attaining an insurance qualification.
Competencies
- Business Insight
- Communicates Effectively
- Decision Quality
- Directs Work
- Ensures Accountability
- Financial Acumen
- Instills Trust
- Manages Complexity