Medical Advisor at Sanlam

The Sanlam Retail Affluent (SRA) cluster is responsible for Sanlam’s retail business in South Africa. SRA provides clients across different market segments (entry-level, middle-income, affluent, professional market and business owners) with a comprehensive range of appropriate and competitive financial solutions. These include traditional life insurance risk and savings products, investment, retirement, health and fiduciary services. Designed to facilitate long-term wealth creation, protection and niche financing, these solutions are engineered around client needs.

At Sanlam we believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives you every opportunity to achieve success. Sanlam is 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 as well as people with disabilities. Job Purpose:

This role focuses on optimising risk profits from risk products for all business entities in the Sanlam Group. This necessitates continued research and development, data analysis, establishing underwriting and claims assessment policies, assisting with product design, development, and pricing, as well as doing quality control of risk ratings by the underwriting and claims teams. Management of smaller units and projects within the larger Sanlam Life Insurance framework. Output/Core Tasks:

Manage and update evidence-based in-house underwriting philosophy.
Manage claims policy.
Assist underwriting team with the prognosis and risk classification of medical conditions.
Quality control of risk ratings by the Underwriting and Claims teams
Interpretation of medical tests to improve underwriting risk

This includes but not limited to:
effort ECG’s, lung functions tests and special investigations
Blood pathology tests
Explore and work in multidisciplinary teams to use data and other innovative markers to enrich insurance assessments
Assess disability claims and other claims like hospital plans, dread disease, etc.
Assist product development and pricing with medico-legal definitions, and disease incidence and prevalence stats.
Training of underwriters and claims personnel.
Reinsurer networking and relationship management.
Providing strategic input wrt pandemic challenges. Role Requirements:

Qualifications:
At least M.B.Ch.B. & Registered with HPCSA
Any post-graduate qualification in Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Impairment rating or Family Health will be an asset

Experience:
At least 5 years of recent experience in the medical field.
Experience in the Insurance Medicine in the long term insurance industry would be beneficial
Experience in the Health Insurance or Medical Aid industry will be an advantage Sanlam Core Competencies

Being resilient
Collaborates
Cultivates innovation
Customer focus

Drives results Competencies:
Building and maintaining relationships
Project management
Decision making
Team success
Stress tolerance
Presentation skills

Excellent Communication skills (verbal & written) Other:
Must be willing to travel nationally, if required
Data analytic ability
Computer literacy is required 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 four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development. Turnaround time

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.

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group’s Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process

Closing date: 7 January 2022 Our commitment to transformation

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