Job Openings at Britam

The job holder will be responsible for driving new business sales and scheme/account retention through IFA, FA and Direct Distribution Channels for the Corporate Life Insurance Business.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement strategies to grow sales of Corporate Life Insurance products.
• Develop and maintain appropriate Process and Procedure Manuals for the department. 
• Train, develop supervise and provide oversight to Corporate Sales Executives (CSEs) assigned to your department. 
• Lead various cross-functional teams (consisting of members from; Underwriting, Reinsurance, Service, Operations, IT, Marketing, Product Development etc.) to develop or enhance Corporate Life Insurance products or processes to meet your department’s sales objectives/goals.
• Develop training content and materials for Britam’s Corporate Life Insurance products.
• Ensure intermediaries of your assigned channel(s) are regularly and adequately trained on Britam’s 
  Corporate Life Insurance products.
• Research and identify appropriate target markets for Corporate Life Insurance products, with the support and collaboration of the Marketing Department.
• Develop and maintain process, procedures, data, and reporting templates within the department for Pipeline Management.
• Assign markets to your CSEs and their assigned intermediaries. 
• Ensure on-ground sales and marketing activities to build a prospect pipeline are taking place.
• Support your assigned intermediaries with prospect/client presentations, preparation of tender documents and/or closing of business/accounts.
• Design and deploy appropriate sales competitions (or incentives) to your assigned distribution channels.
• Manage relationships and resolve conflicts that arise within your assigned distribution channels.
• Ensure the sales revenue targets assigned to your department are met and exceed. 
• Grow the productivity (or the number) of assigned intermediaries selling Corporate Life Insurance products. 
• Grow the number of schemes/accounts (or customers) for the Corporate Life Insurance Business.
• Ensure departmental expenditures are within the approved budgets and set financial controls.
• Prepare monthly reports on the performance of your department to your supervisor.
• Delegated Authority: As per the approved Delegated Authority Matrix.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications required:

• Bachelor of Commerce degree (marketing option preferred).
• Professional qualification in Insurance (ACII , FLMI, or IIK).
• 6-8 years’ experience in insurance sales.
• Knowledge of insurance regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of insurance products.
• Sales and marketing management skills.

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Work within Betalab under the Partnership and Digital department to identify requirements, design and develop solutions (database design, workflows, user/data interfaces, integrations) and offer technical support for Betalab solutions.

Key responsibilities:
Data Pipeline Development: 

• Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL).
• Implement data storage solutions using databases and cloud-based platforms.
• Optimize data processing for performance and scalability.

Machine Learning Model Deployment: 

• Develop and deploy machine learning models into production environments.
• Create APIs and web services to expose model predictions.
• Monitor model performance and implement retraining strategies.

Software Development: 

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in languages such as Python.
• Develop data-driven applications and tools to support business objectives.
• Contribute to the development of our data science platform.

Data Analysis and Visualization: 

• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify trends and patterns.
• Create interactive visualizations to communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Develop reports and dashboards to track key performance indicators.

Collaboration and Communication: 

• Work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product managers.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications required:

• Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field from an accredited institution.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Proficiency in Python and relevant libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch).
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with RDMS preferably Oracle, MySQL, Non-relational MongoDB.

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Work within Betalab under the Partnership and Digital department to identify requirements, design and develop solutions (database design, workflows, user/data interfaces, integrations) and offer technical support for Betalab solutions.

Key responsibilities:

• Champion the development of digital solutions by carrying out business analysis, designing end user testing documents, collaborating with internal and external parties to carry out user testing.
• Work with developers to design algorithms and flowcharts.
• Design and development of front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications.
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that business application systems can be effectively developed and implemented.  
• Enhance and create user and system documentation as needed.
• Perform data modelling to analyze and specify data structures within an application system.
• Developing database objects and structures for data storage, retrieval and reporting according to specifications.
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications.
• Integrate software components and third-party programs.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
• Gather and evaluate user feedback.
• Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components.
• Research and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications. 
• Generation of ideas to improve efficiency in software and application services offered to the business, and/or generate revenue for business.

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications required:

• Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field from an accredited institution.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Development experience with any modern programming tools/Platforms e.g. .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP.
• Development experience with Spring boot and React or Angular Framework.
• Certified Solution Developer/ Architect e.g. Java, Microsoft is an added advantage.
• Experience in applications development, which includes system customization and report designs.
• Experience with RDMS preferably MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix.

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Work within Betalab under the Partnership and Digital department to identify technical, process and product requirements, and align to the digital transformation strategy of the organization for implementation.
Work with the product & project managers to implement

Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with the Operating Companies’ and the Group to capture their ‘Business Requirements’ and to produce common Requirement Specifications & Use Cases to support the development and launch of innovative solutions and products.
• Conduct workshops with all participating Operating Companies and the Group to ensure Group-wide approval of all requirements specifications & use case material is achieved.
• Verify & approve all design solutions and test cases to ensure the business requirements have been met.
• Deliver improvements to the Business through standardizing Requirement Specifications, Use Cases, Test Cases and synergy identification documents.
• Consolidate and harmonize business requirements for developments resulting in cross development synergies.
• Provide Business Case input through financial details, prioritization and representing Operating Companies’ needs gathered via high level workshops. 
• Support and comply to all IT Processes and deliverables.
• High level analysis of requests and classification into products/ Architecture Domains.
• Manage consolidation of requirements within each High Level Scope.
• Support and input into Concept Solution Design (CSD).
• High level analysis of requests and classification into architecture Domains.
• Support the review of both high level and low level design.
• Verify that requirements are testable and generate testing objectives, strategies, plans and scripts.
• Review and approve vendor test plans ensuring that the business requirement is met and tested.
• Review end user developed test cases for accuracy. Validate User Acceptance results conform to requirements.

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications required:

• Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field from an accredited institution.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of business strategy and of business implications of IT/Service solutions roadmaps.
• Good communication and report writing skills.
• Business analysis skills and Knowledge of the software development and implementation cycle.