Discovery Health – New Markets
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
Discovery Health has defined as one of its key objectives – to diversify the business and its earnings by growing non-medical scheme business with a newly established Health New Markets business unit. This objective necessitates leveraging Discovery’s unique IP and shared value model to develop and grow innovative new health products that add value to employers, employees, and individual members beyond Discovery Health’s traditional customer segments.
Discovery Health’s new market products, include:
And any other solutions that may be developed in future to add value to employers, their employees, and individual members.
Responsible for assessing, advising and optimizing the distribution of our products using knowledge of actuarial, commercial, market and economic principles.
We are looking for a smart, self-driven person who is a natural problem solver and who delights in being challenged and innovative. This is a rare opportunity for someone who is commercially minded, thinks broadly and wants to venture into a stimulating and exciting career.
Understand, analyse and optimize sales and distribution strategies across using industry knowledge, analytical expertise and strategic insights.
The candidate will be required to:
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to make this vision a reality.
Fuelled by our passion for enhancing lives and our desire to innovate, Discovery consistently sets global standards, creating shared value through shared intellectual capital. A testament to this is our Vitality programme, which is both a platform to incentivise people to live healthier lives as well as a channel through which shared value is delivered.
We are a proudly South African-born, global company with health, life and short term insurance operations in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and a presence in Germany, France, the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Japan through our Global Vitality Network. We uphold our promise of shared value by being a positive disruptor that focusses on bringing about sustainable change in the lives of the people and communities we serve across the globe.
Our Vitality Shared-Value Insurance model has received international recognition, including being ranked 17th in Fortune’s index of 51 companies “changing the world” in August 2015, and named a leading health innovator at the World Economic Forum in January 2017.
Our values of leadership, honesty, innovation and fairness act as our compass, directing our business practices to take advantage of every opportunity while looking for ways to dazzle clients.
With an unwavering commitment to being the best shared value insurance organisation in the world, Discovery is a powerful force for social good.
