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DC Health Telesales Consultant Cape Town

Business Unit:  Discovery Connect

Function:  Telesales

Date:  9 Aug 2025

Discovery Connect – Cape Town

Health Telesales Consultant

About Discovery 

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 to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Connect

People increasingly want to transact faster, on their terms, in fluid, and dynamic ways. Discovery Connect facilitates this need as a direct sales channel, leveraging the best of technology with the best in people. We are often a client’s first impression of Discovery so we must have the best Discovery ambassadors in our team. At the forefront of client acquisition methodology, Discovery Connect continues to be one of the fastest-growing divisions in the group. Representing all product lines. there is an opportunity for forward thinkers, innovators, and people who thrive on complexity in a growing business.

Key purpose

The successful individual will be required to provide the best direct to client service, by identifying the medical aid/ health needs of our clients and presenting the best sales opportunities.

Key Outputs

The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs:

Achieve Health Sales target

Communication to members telephonically via fax and email

Attending to general administration

Conduct Financial Needs Analysis

Achieve quality target

Overcome objections

Adhering to service level agreements

Personal attributes and skills

The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Target Driven
• Team Player
• Goal orientated
• Self motivated
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Adapt to change
• Persuasiveness
• Resilience/Tenacity
• Sound Time Management
• Self managed
• Attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
• Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans

Qualification & Experience

Essential Requirements:

• Matric
• Minimum 6 months sales experience
• PC literacy, email, word, excel

Advantageous Requirements:

• Discovery Health Knowledge
• Tertiary qualification
• NQF5 and RE5 qualification

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.

Actuarial Analyst

Business Unit:  Discovery Central Services

Function:  Actuarial Sciences

Date:  8 Aug 2025

About Discovery

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.

About Vitality Global

Vitality Global, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited is responsible for the expansion of the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance business model beyond South Africa and the UK, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property of Discovery beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate Vitality and shared value with partner’s insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Global also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Health International, a business unit within Vitality Global coordinates and focuses on resource allocation to Discovery’s emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Vitality Global is also responsible for Discovery’s 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China. Taken together, Vitality’s businesses jointly reach more than 30 million lives across 40 markets; delivered through partnerships with leading insurers in every continent around the world.

Key Purpose

• A wide-ranging role supporting the Head of Actuarial and Vitality Network (VN) executives with commercial and new business opportunity sizing, and successful implementation and management of Vitality core and integrated products in various international markets.
• The role will span new business development and commercial support and analysis; actuarial consulting, product development and pricing support for international partner markets; and central product and model development as we take Vitality forward through personalisation and learning models.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Analysis and research for identifying new growth opportunities for VN across the globe, including both existing markets and new territories.
• Supporting on prioritised business initiatives, which includes developing businesses cases and commercials for potential new Partners, quantifying the value generated from integrating Vitality with Partner products, as well as modelling scenarios for financial impact to Vitality Network.
• Actuarial support to various international Partners, which includes support on commercials and financial projections, support on strategic and product initiatives to drive sales and product performance, problem-solving at a local market level, and pricing and actuarial modelling support on product changes and new feature launches leveraging best practice from Discovery home and global markets.
• Collaborating with R&D on the development of new product features (starting with Vitality AI), and localising these for our Partners.
• Data analytics related to program performance and member engagement in various markets. This includes inputting into reporting projects run by the BI team.
• Providing actuarial and technical support on a range of other ad-hoc projects.

Personal Attributes and Skills

Strong technical capabilities and analytical skillsStrong financial modelling capabilitiesKnowledge of life insurance product and pricing dynamics, value drivers and range of life insurance product offeringsExcellent negotiation, communication and presentation skillsComplex problem-solving abilityDecision-making and initiating actionAbility to influence and manage external relationships in a professional mannerAbility and willingness to collaborate across a range of functions to find optimal solutionsFlexible and adaptable to a fast-changing environment

Education and Experience 

Education:

          BSc with Honours in Actuarial Science or equivalent

 Experience:

• Nearly or Qualified Actuary.
• 2+  years’ experience, preferably with an understanding of Discovery products, experience and integration with Vitality.
• Experience in Actuarial Modelling, profit testing, data analytics and machine learning, problem solving, mathematical and statistical reasoning will be an advantage.

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.

Developer (Senior) – Vitality Drive International

Business Unit:  Discovery Insure

Function:  Information Technology

Date:  8 Aug 2025

Discovery – Insure

Developer (Senior) – Vitality Drive International

About Discovery

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.

About Discovery Insure

Discovery Insure is committed to creating a nation of great drivers through our innovative Shared-value Insurance model. Discovery Insure is South Africa’s fastest growing short-term insurance company with comprehensive products that provide protection against current and emerging risks facing clients in the motor and home insurance sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally-recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivises and rewards clients for driving well. The Vitality Drive programme has been scaled to local and international markets which now include Europe and the Middle East. The company employs over 1 000 people who are committed to putting our customers and financial advisers first by providing unique and innovative solutions and cover.

Key Purpose

Design and implement robust, scalable and optimally performing systems using Java related technologies, according to provided specifications, standards and procedures, while ensuring compliance with the architectural standards and guidelines laid out by Vitality Drive International.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

Design:

• Translate business requirements into technical designs adhering to Discovery Insure processes, standards and guidelines, taking cognisance of performance, security and scalability requirements. Deliver within agreed timeframes.
• Liaise with relevant parties where clarification of business requirements or resolution to technical issues is needed
• Research and find effective solutions to technical issues that arise
• Estimate development timelines based on business requirements

Development:

• Construct robust, maintainable, scalable, optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, standards and procedures. Deliver within agreed timeframes
• Conduct unit testing and fix any defects found

Testing:

• Verify build stability and quality with development team before releasing to test team, aiming to release with zero defects
• Assist the Business analyst in ensuring the test pack includes relevant scenarios and test data.
• Consult and assist in reviewing risk / impact of defects found in testing, and assist with fixing where necessary

Support / Troubleshooting:

• Assist system users with technical support issues and handle according to defined procedures
• Ability to effectively analyse root cause of system errors (data errors, performance and stability issues)

Mentoring / Team development:

• Actively coach other developers to understand and apply the Insure coding and architectural standards correctly, as well as any technologies in use
• Perform code review to ensure logical correctness, maintainability, scalability, performance, compliance with architectural standards and frameworks

Personal development:

• Keep abreast of current technological trends and how these might be applied in the Discovery environment
• Constant improvement of knowledge of the various applications, their functionalities and data models

General:

• Ability to communicate clearly, constructively and effectively. Easily able to follow and participate in technical, business process, and other discussions
• Able to build business relationships with other members of team and the business areas we support.

Technical Skills

• Excellent understanding of Object Orientated principals and Java language fundamentals
• Knowledge of commonly used design patterns
• Broad understanding of how to put together an EE-based business solution from scratch
• EJB
• HTML
• JSF
• JQuery
• JAXB
• SOAP Web services
• Message Driven Beans
• UML
• XML/XSD
• SQL

Education and Experience

Education:

• Matric
• BSc Computer Science /Information Systems degree
• Formal Java qualification

 Minimum Experience:              

• 6+ years’ experience in Java development with exposure to core competencies listed:
  • REST Web services
  • JSON
  • Business Process Management Tools
  • Apache Camel
  • Apache Webserver Configuration
  • JBOSS Configuration
  • CSS
  • GIT
  • Integrated Build Tools
  • HTML 5
  • Knowledge of Short-Term Insurance industry
  • Working knowledge of:
  • Software development within SDLC
  • Unit Testing
  • Data modelling and design of database structures
  • Cloud Technology exposure

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.

Network Specialist

Business Unit:  Discovery Central Services

Function:  Information Technology

Date:  8 Aug 2025

Discovery – Technology Services

Network Specialist

About Discovery

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.

Key Purpose

To manage and Support Network staff and deliver input to the overall Network strategy

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Vendor Contract Management   
• Set SLA’s with 3rd Party Line vendors   
• Set staff KPIs and Peer reviews   
• Report on Network Capacities within the BAU footprint   
• Manage Operational Team    
• Documentation   
• Asset Management    
• Skill Gap analysis    
• Drive Automation back to NetDevOPS   
• Ensure BAU Compliance against Technical Base Standards   
• Automation and IAC (Infrastructure as cloud)    

Technical skills

• All Popular Routing Protocols
• Advance IP Subnetting IPV4
• Cisco L2 and L3 Switches
• Configuration of Predefined Configs on all Cisco Hardware
• IPSEC
• Cisco ISE Skills
• QoS Troubleshooting
• Interrogate Wireshark Traces and identify packet issues
• Troubleshooting WIFI Issues
• Solid communication Skills
• F5 Configuration
• Network Monitoring like SolarWinds, Cisco Prime and NetFlow Tools
• Hardening of Network Devices and Cisco Software
• Cisco ACI Build and Maintain
• Project Management
• Task Management

Education and Experience

• CCNP or Above
• Matric
• ITIL
• Experience or Above Certs
• 10 Years Working for a large Corporate
• People Management
• AWS advanced networking certification
• Terraform certification
• People Management
• Project management experience
• Advanced Devops experience, Bitbucket, Python, Jenkins etc.   
• Basic network solution architecture   

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.

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.

Claims Consultant | Fast track claims

Business Unit:  Vitality Life

Function:  Insurance (Short Term)

Date:  8 Aug 2025

Discovery – Insure

Claims Consultant – Short Term Insurance (Junior – fast track)

About Discovery

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 to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Insure

Discovery Insure is committed to creating a nation of great drivers and building better businesses through our innovative Shared-value Insurance model. Discovery Insure is South Africa’s fastest growing short-term insurance company with comprehensive products that provide protection against current and emerging risks facing clients in the motor and home insurance sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivises and rewards clients for driving well. The Vitality Drive programme has been scaled to local and international markets which now include Europe and the Middle East.

The company employs over 1 000 people who are committed to putting our customers and financial advisers first by providing unique and innovative solutions and cover.  

Key Purpose 

To process, validate and liaise with clients, brokers and service providers following a client’s motor and/or non-motor loss or incident in pre-authorisation.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to 

• To process, validate and liaise fast track claims with clients, brokers and service providers following a client’s motor and/or non-motor loss or incident.
• Efficient, timely claims processing.
• Accurate, timely administration.
• Liaison with clients, brokers and service providers.
• Achievement of monthly product and soft skills knowledge targets.
• Adherence to risk and compliance requirements.
• Teamwork, self-management and alignment with Discovery values.

Education and Experience 

• Matric (Essential)
• 2 year’s minimum short term insurance fast track claims experience in a call centre in both motor and non-motor (Essential)
• Degree (Advantageous)

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.

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