Portfolio Manager (Life)
Portfolio Manager (Life)
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Job Description
Guardrisk Life is looking for a Portfolio Manager to join our Guardrisk Life Marketing team.
Role Purpose
You will play an integral part at Guardrisk working in a unique environment alongside our clients and internal teams to market Guardrisks Life products service existing and prospective clients and provide after-sales service to existing clients.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Marketing Guardrisk Life to prospective new clients and developing new growth opportunities with existing clients.
- Managing third-party cell captives where products include amongst others funeral (individual and group) individual life and disability credit life and investment products. The responsibilities include:
- Ensuring effective management of various stakeholders in the insurance value chain (cell owners binder holders intermediaries consultants reinsurers administrators)
- Reviewing cells financials and managing revenue streams
- Facilitating reinsurance renewals via the reinsurance department
- Ensuring compliance with market conduct standards and relevant legislative requirements
- Ensuring that legal contracting is correct up to date and in place
- Tending to client queries
- Marketing and cross selling of Guardrisk Lifes products and services to existing clients
- Assisting clients with product development for third-party risks
- Setting up internal processes for each client with all relevant internal technical areas such as finance actuarial underwriting legal risk compliance
- Contribute to the enhancement and improvement of existing internal processes
- Keeping up to date with legislation and regulation in the life insurance market
- Network on industry matters to facilitate knowledge share and input to clients on their insurance businesses
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary degree and/or Insurance qualification. Marketing team consists of individuals with various technical skills such as actuaries attorneys accountants
- Candidate will be required to obtain an RE5 designation
- At least 2 - 4 years experience in the insurance and financial services industries
- Technical life insurance knowledge with strong people skills to negotiate optimal solutions with various stakeholders
Competencies
- Tenacity in pursuing new business opportunities
- Well-developed people skills
- Ability to liaise with different stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Business acumen
- Deadline driven
- Strong implementation skills
- Ability to understand and interpret financial statements and insurance valuation reports
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to operate both independently as well as play a role in the Guardrisk Life team and to contribute to the greater Guardrisk
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
