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Business Development ActuaryNetwork Recruitment • Johannesburg, South Africa
Business Development Actuary

Business Development Actuary

Network Recruitment • Johannesburg, South Africa
12 days ago
Job description

Small, high-impact teams mean that your voice matters and your ideas will shape the future of clients' portfolios and new business.

Join a forward-thinking insurance partner known for technical excellence, strong client relationships, and a culture where innovation and collaboration drive performance. In this role, youll blend actuarial expertise with business development flair crafting product strategies, shaping client engagements, and influencing bottom-line outcomes.

Youll work with cross-functional teams locally and internationally, stay ahead of emerging market trends, and help deliver capital-efficient solutions that support long-term profitability.

If you want a role where your strategic thinking, communication skills, and actuarial depth all come together, this is it.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Build, nurture, and expand strong, mutually beneficial client partnerships.
  • Develop compelling product positioning strategies and produce high-impact marketing and sales collateral.
  • Prepare and deliver powerful presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Assess capital requirements across business lines and create strategies to optimise capital usage.
  • Collaborate with Pricing to ensure accurate, profitable quotations for new business.
  • Monitor client portfolios proactively and drive corrective actions where needed.
  • Draft treaties and treaty addenda aligned to internal guidelines, legal requirements, and due-diligence standards.
  • Manage client accounts, outstanding balances, and profit commission calculations.
  • Produce performance summaries for existing treaties and support ongoing relationship management.
  • Promote leadership excellence through collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Job Experience and Skills Required :

  • Education :
  • Qualified or nearly qualified Actuary.
  • Experience :
  • Minimum 5 years experience in life insurance or reinsurance.
  • Strong technical grounding with exposure to business development or client-facing actuarial work.
  • Skills :
  • Advanced MS Excel and Word, and intermediate PowerPoint and Outlook.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation capabilities.
  • Commercial acumen with strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
  • Non-negotiables :
  • High attention to detail.
  • Strong stakeholder-engagement and relationship-building skills.
  • Ability to take initiative and work independently.
  • Deadline-driven, customer-centric, and collaborative.
  • Apply now!

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