Regional General Manager: Ra connect - Bellville, South Africa - Sanlam

Sanlam

Verified Company

Bellville, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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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?

Undertake regional leadership:
Analyse the regional market changes, competitors, risks, opportunities and threats and create contingency plans for these in order to protect and grow market share
Serve on the regional Exco and contribute to the profitability and success of the region with respect to attainment of business plans, decision making, operations, sales, compliance and customer service
Drive a culture of high performance within the region through present and courageous leadership.
Tactically execute the regional sales strategy through sales management
Ensure the regional strategy is understood and work with sales management to formulate the regional business plan
Ensure Business Managers effectively drive and attain sales targets
Ensure and drive the attainment of manpower targets together with Business Managers in the region
Work with the Business Managers and specialist resources to identify, support and develop strategies that penetrate new worksites or market segments
Initiate, drive and promote various sales incentive competitions in support of sales
Monitor and track MIS/reporting and undertake corrective actions if required regarding the effectiveness of the strategy execution
Reenforce clearly how the different channels need to work collaboratively to achieve the regional strategy and that processes and communication within the region and between teams support this.
Get regular feedback and updates from sales management and teams on sales performance against target. Report these back to Regional Exco
Ensure tactical integration of specialist and support resources within the region
Work closely with support and specialist resources within the region and Head Office to ensure these are aligned to the achievement of the regional strategy. Ensure that the sales management teams effectively utilize these resources
Monitor regional expense budgets and profitability
The Regional General Manager is to monitor and report on expenses and profitability
Ensure risk management and compliance within the region (including Key Individual)
Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of all relevant regulatory and legislative laws/rules/ frameworks applicable to doing business compliantly.
Drive ongoing awareness and education of compliance within the region
Working closely with the Compliance Department/Officer, establish and implement compliance metrics/ measures, structures, monitoring and reporting.
Evaluate and resolve 'escalated' client/broker complaints by collaboration with the Compliance Department by following the prescribed process, undertaking client/intermediary contact and decision making
Identify areas of risk within the region and ensure there are appropriate management processes, monitoring, reporting and corrective actions in place to minimise or eliminate these.

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Build and develop relationships, networks and new markets
Work closely with the Regional Marketing Manager, Business Managers and different support resources to identify high impact clients, associations and worksites/ companies (public and private sector) to approach and build relationships with
Partner with the Regional Executive to attend and host selected client engagement opportunities in order to market Sanlam
Look for opportunities to penetrate less utilized market segments within the region. Formulate creative value propositions and strategies to gain access to, and contract clients/leads working in these markets.

People Management

Ensure that high potential talent is sourced and selected into the region to support the vision and talent succession needs.
Embrace transformation in the region. Promote and communicate transformation as a key strategy within the region and support initiatives to achieve DTI targets.
Align HR practices and decisions within the province, with respect to recruitment and promotion of staff, to support transformation targets
Ensure all direct reports have development plans, discussions and are suitably trained for their positions
Undertake performance management and performance discussions with all direct reports
Undertake staff career development and talent retention strategies

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