{"id":18399,"date":"2025-09-06T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/business-development-consultant-kzn-parktown-business-development-manager-western-cape-parktown-senior-finan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:25:15","slug":"business-development-consultant-kzn-parktown-business-development-manager-western-cape-parktown-senior-finan","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/?post_type=job_listing&p=18399","title":{"rendered":"Business Development Consultant &#8211; KZN (Parktown) \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Business Development Manager &#8211; Western Cape (Parktown) \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Senior Finance Business Partner (Parktown) \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Marketing Specialist (Parktown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE JOB AT A GLANCE<\/p>\n<p>\tThis role will be responsible for planning, implementing and overseeing RMA Life\u2019s overall Broker Development strategy as well as growing its existing book size.<br \/>\n\tThis role is accountable for the RMA Life Group Risk sale\u2019s and customer targets, in line with our BOS Strategy. This role is also responsible for ensuring sustainable revenue growth and profitability by constantly maximizing market penetration.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT WILL YOU DO?<\/p>\n<p>\tProvide strategic direction to the RMA Life Group Risk Business Development Function.<br \/>\n\tSecuring new business partners and expanding opportunities within the current client base.<br \/>\n\tDesign, implement, and manage new and well-researched business initiatives, strategies, and solutions, ranging from relationship development to retention.<br \/>\n\tNegotiate business development transactions inclusive of transaction agreements, subscription agreements, and partnerships.<br \/>\n\tMaintain a stable knowledge base of the group risk industry, competitors, and regulatory activity.<br \/>\n\tConduct regular research, keep up with trends and best practices, maintain competitive edge, and keep the business at par with competitors in the market.<br \/>\n\tEstablish synergistic relationships with key role players in the market. Attend numerous industry events and conferences.<br \/>\n\tEstablish and maintain long term relationships with key clients, potential clients, intermediaries, and key strategic partners.<br \/>\n\tPartner with the Pricing and Product teams to provide technical expertise and knowledge sharing to clients and intermediaries.<br \/>\n\tWork closely with the Pricing, Administration, Disability management and Underwriting areas to ensure exceptional client service delivery.<br \/>\n\tDeliver improved Customer Analytics &amp; Market intelligence that enables RMA to leverage data in key business decisions. This includes the analysis and reporting of key findings of multiple business metrics to determine the effectiveness of sales.<br \/>\n\tContribute to the development and implementation of Marketing and Customer strategy for RMA Life Group Risk.<br \/>\n\tCollaborate with the rest of the RMA Life team and contribute sales and customer expertise across the different divisions to align the overall RMA strategy.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT YOU&#8217;LL BRING TO THE TABLE?<\/p>\n<p>\t10 &#8211; 15 years Employee benefits experience including at least 5 years of EB business development experience (required)<br \/>\n\tBusiness degree (advantageous)<br \/>\n\tRE5 (required)<br \/>\n\tNQF 5 in Wealth Management of Financial Planning \/ 120 FAIS credits (required)<br \/>\n\tDemonstrated ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with all stakeholders internally and externally.<br \/>\n\tExceptional sales and business development skills.<br \/>\n\tKnowledge of MS Office suite<\/p>\n<p>Competencies<\/p>\n<p>\tStrategic thinker &amp; solution orientated<br \/>\n\tLogical, analytical problem-solving ability.<br \/>\n\tExcellent interpersonal skills.<br \/>\n\tStrong business communication skills (written, presentations, verbal etc.) English and Afrikaans<br \/>\n\tAbility to work independently.<br \/>\n\tAbility to take accountability, responsibility, and ownership.<br \/>\n\tAble to take initiative and exercise sound judgment and decision making.<br \/>\n\tAbility to work in a highly pressurised, target oriented environment.<br \/>\n\tAbility to deal positively with change and uncertainty.<br \/>\n\tStrong business acumen.<br \/>\n\tStrong sales and persuasive skills.<br \/>\n\tStrong quality orientation.<br \/>\n\tGood organisational skills.<br \/>\n\tProactive, self-motivated.<br \/>\n\tCustomer oriented.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>go to method of application \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Apply via company website (  ) or<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"","_company_name":"Rand Mutual - RMA","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[16],"job-types":[12],"class_list":["post-18399","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-expired","hentry","job_listing_region-kwazulu-natal","job-type-full-time"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/18399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=18399"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=18399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}