Job title : Portfolio Manager - Life
Job Location : Gauteng,
Deadline : December 15, 2025
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Role Purpose
Guardrisk Life is looking for a Portfolio Manager to join our Guardrisk Life Marketing team. You will play an integral part at Guardrisk, working in a unique environment alongside our clients and internal teams to market Guardrisk’s Life products, service existing and prospective clients and provide after-sales service to existing clients.Requirements
Qualifications
Degree / Insurance qualificationCandidate will be required to obtain an RE5 designationExperience
2 - 4 years’ experience in the insurance and financial services industries.Marketing team consists of individuals with various technical skills such as actuaries, attorneys, accountants.Technical life insurance knowledge with strong people skills to negotiate optimal solutions with various stakeholders.Duties & Responsibilities
Marketing Guardrisk Life to prospective new clients and developing new growth opportunities with existing clients.Managing third-party cell captives, where products include, amongst others, funeral (individual and group), individual life and disability, credit life and investment products.The responsibilities include :
Ensuring effective management of various stakeholders in the insurance value chain (cell owners, binder holders, intermediaries, consultants, reinsurers, administrators).Reviewing cells’ financials and managing revenue streams.Facilitating reinsurance renewals via the reinsurance department.Ensuring compliance with market conduct standards and relevant legislative requirements.Ensuring that legal contracting is correct, up to date and in place.Tending to client queries.Marketing and cross selling of Guardrisk Life’s products and services to existing clients.Assisting clients with product development for third-party risks.Setting up internal processes for each client with all relevant internal technical areas such as finance, actuarial, underwriting, legal, risk, compliance.Contribute to the enhancement and improvement of existing internal processes.Keeping up to date with legislation and regulation in the life insurance market.Network on industry matters to facilitate knowledge share and input to clients on their insurance businesses.Competencies
Tenacity in pursuing new business opportunities.Well-developed people skills.Ability to liaise with different stakeholders.Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Negotiation skills.Critical thinking skills.Business acumen.Deadline driven.Strong implementation skills.Ability to understand and interpret financial statements and insurance valuation reports.Ability to work under pressure.Ability to operate both independently as well as play a role in the Guardrisk Life team and to contribute to the greater Guardrisk group.Closing Date 2025 / 12 / 08
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