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• Oversee and manage payroll queries and administration
• Advise line managers on BCEA requirements relating to the payment of employees
• Responsible for ensuring "take on" documents are submitted to finance within the prescribed time period
• Responsible for accurate loading of new employees on Pastel

• Keep record of all inductions
• Address / delegate confirmation of employment enquiries
• Responsible for keeping the organograms updated
• Monitor the absconding procedure
• Management of foreign national employees documentation
• Monitor and maintain leave records

• Advise on code of conduct and company policy guidelines
• Provide HR advice and support to all staff, management and supervisors
• Arranging of disciplinary hearings and the management and facilitation thereof
• Liaising with the employer organisation around attendance of CCMA (conciliation and arbitration) cases as well as overseeing the entire process
• Monitoring of performance management records
• Participates in substantive negotiations / consultations with the shop-stewards and unions

• Expert knowledge in Basic Conditions of Employment act, Labour Relations Act, Employment Equity Act, Skills Development Act as well as any other applicable legislation
• Ensure compliance with company policies
• Report on compliance gaps

• To ensure that the recruitment and selection procedures are in line with the companys policy on recruitment and selection
• Assist with management of interviews, selection process, as well as on-boarding of new employees
• Ensure that the recruitment process supports the companys EE plan
• Take ownership of all entry level appointments in Gauteng

• Monitor training needs and skills gaps in conjunction with the training department
• Assist with the development of career pathing and succession plans
• Ensure employees training passports is updated as saved on Secure Office

• Oversee performance management within the region
• Verification of appraisals
• Monitoring of performance management records

• Bachelor of Commerce (HR) (or equivalent) degree
• Post graduate qualification in relevant field will be an advantage
• Minimum 5 8 years experience in the HR field
• 2 3 years experience in management
• Excellent working knowledge of the relevant South African labour legislation as well as experience in working with unions
• Sound knowledge of HR and IR practices and legislatives
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Valid code 8 drivers license
• Must be willing to travel to all the different sites
• Registration with professional body would be an advantage
• Must be well presented, professional and have excellent communication skills

Discovery Health

Junior Data Scientist

About Discovery
Discovery's core purpose is to enhance and protect people's lives. It does this through breakthrough product designs that harness incentives to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices. Healthy behaviour leads to lower claims, higher margins, and lower lapses. These savings are shared with our clients which in turn leads to a healthier society, improved productivity, and a reduced healthcare burden. One of Discovery's core assets is its large and diverse data, covering health, wellness, driving, investments, and life insurance. This forms the basis for our shared value model, along with innovation, risk management and operational efficiency improvements. Discovery's energetic and motivated analytical teams make this happen.

About The Data Science Lab
The Group Data Science Lab applies predictive analytics, machine learning, big data, and operations research skills to run and to support key projects for the Discovery Group and for the individual Discovery business units, including the health, life, and short-term insurance businesses. We work across operational, clinical, wellness, financial, customer service, sales, and behavioural science areas. We use and create state-of-the-art tools and work with terabytes of structured and unstructured data within a big data environment.

About The Position
We have a vacancy for a data scientist to work on cutting-edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Model (LLM) projects. The team has been researching, using, training, and engineering systems which leverage NLP and LLMs for years, and we are looking for team members to help expand and accelerate this research and development.

Responsibilities include

• Working with huge quantities of unstructured text data from a variety of sources.
• Completing reviews of relevant academic literature and industry releases
• Working with seniors in the team to own the delivery of projects from inception through to deployment and business adoption.
• Prototyping code for data science and ML systems, particularly those using NLP and LLMs, in line with architecture designed with senior data scientists and data engineers.
• Evaluating prototypes, models, and deployments robustly to ensure scientific rigour and business value.
• Presenting analyses and project updates to both technical and business audiences.
• Keeping an open mind and looking for new opportunities for the use of existing datasets and tools, as well as new ones, for novel business applications

Personal Attributes

• A creative and eager attitude to learning, unearthing valuable insights, and generating value for Discovery clients.
• Enthusiasm for building systems which solve real problems through data and technology.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and step back to see how your work fits into the wider business context.
• Aligned to Discovery values and core purpose.

Technical Skills

• SQL and working with databases.
• Python for data science and machine learning.
• Ability to formulate a clear problem statement, develop a plan for tackling it, and clearly communicate findings verbally, visually, and in writing.

• Advantageous

• Version control (Git).

• Experience with R.
• Experience with using and/or developing NLP packages and models.
• Experience with TensorFlow and/or PyTorch.
• Experience with using and/or training LLMs.
• Experience with Spark and/or Dask.

Education and Experience

• Honours or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial engineering, Applied Mathematics, or similar quantitative field. A PhD degree would be advantageous. Other qualifications will also be considered if accompanied by relevant experience.
• We will consider candidates at all levels of experience.

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.

Discovery
Sales & Distribution
Assistant Business Consultant ( ABC)
Gauteng
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.

Key Purpose
Administration and Support of Broker Consultants through building relationships, superior client service and technical knowledge.

Areas Of Responsibility May Include But Not Limited To
All work must be done accurately, comprehensively and in-line with set quality standards and timelines.

• Drafting and processing of new business and servicing quotations for all product lines within desired SLA's
• Review new business and servicing pipeline, follow-up and tracking together with Business Consultants.
• Ensure advisers and their support staff are informed of the progress of their queries/applications.
• Set up admin processes and workflow protocol and ensure all brokers/broker support staff are adequately trained thereon.
• Processing and issuing new business and servicing policies
• Monitoring and managing franchise figures together with Business Consultants
• Managing and escalating queries ensuring they are done through correct channels.
• Maintaining a high level of accuracy across all processes.
• Relationship building with internal and external stakeholders.
• Update Smart Tracker/ Workflow process.
• Participating in proactive sales and marketing initiatives
• Deal with telephonic and email general queries.
• Maintaining accurate details and statistics of all queries
• Treating all stakeholders and business partners with respect

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Logical, analytical problem-solving ability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Time Management.
• Ability to take accountability, responsibility, and ownership.
• Able to take initiative and exercise sound judgment and decision making.
• Ability to work in a highly pressurized, target oriented environment.
• Ability to deal positively with change and uncertainty.
• Good organizational skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to meet deadlines timeously.
• Honest and ethical.

Qualifications
Education and Experience

• Matric
• 2 years working experience in the Financial Industry
• RE5 (advantageous)
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite
• Excellent Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Tertiary qualification (advantageous)
• Relevant financial services industry experience is 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.

Discovery Health

Senior Data Scientist

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, selfdriven 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 (Data Science Lab)
The Group DS Lab is growing and positions are available. The lab applies predictive analytics, machine learning, big data and operations research skills, to run and to support key projects for the Group and for the individual Discovery business units. We work across clinical, wellness, financial, sales, operational, people and behavioural theme areas, using modern analytics tools on terabytes of structured and unstructured data within a big data architecture. We are also mandated to find opportunities to use new data sets and in areas not typically accustomed to using data science.

Key Purpose
The Data Science Lab Is a Highly Specialised And Expanding Team That Tackles Challenges In The Health, Life, And Short-term Insurance Businesses, As Well Projects That Cut Across The Whole Of The Discovery Group. We Are Looking For Individuals With 2-5 Years Of Experience, For Projects Related To:

• risk management through behavioural science and intervention (next best action) design
• combining traditional data (eg: wearable device, web & app logs, health & life insurance claims) with novel data sources in new ways
• assisting with experimental design for product, rewards, marketing, communications, engagement etc
• advising partner markets on how to customise and deploy locally built models

They will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology and advanced techniques to see their models used in real business applications. The innovative work environment means there are opportunities to shape new projects with a focus on helping insurance customers to lead healthier lives.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Identify and build appropriate models to predict risk, sales and savings
• Present data insights and model findings in a way that provides actionable insights for business stakeholders and senior executives
• Mining and visualising large structured and unstructured datasets throughout the businesses to inform product design, risk management, customer interaction strategies, etc.
• Following model implementations through to business adoption
• Monitoring model performance and using feedback for improvement
• Improving processes and data collections where opportunities arise
• Running scientific experiments to evaluate different models in a reproducible way
• Produce analytical work that is customer, business and staff focused

Personal Attributes and Skills

• A creative and enthusiastic attitude to unearthing valuable insights and generating value for Discovery clients
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and to step back and see how analytics work fits into the wider business context
• Results driven, curious and able to work autonomously or within teams
• Good time and task management skills
• Ability to communicate results of analyses in a clear and effective manner
• Aligned to Discovery values and core purpose

Education and Experience

• Master's or PhD degree in either Data Science, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or Engineering fields.
• Ability to formulate a clear problem statement, develop a plan for tackling it, and clearly communicate findings verbally, visually, and in writing
• Demonstrable working experience in an analytics position, where the focus was on building and implementing machine learning models to solve business problems
• Experience accessing and analysing data using language/tools/databases such as Python, R, SQL, etc.
• Experience using Gradient Boosting Machines, Random Forests, Neural Networks or similar algorithms.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.

Advantageous:

• Some experience in working with big disparate sets of data and exposure to big data tools
• The ideal candidate will possess a deep interest in the healthcare industry, particularly in leveraging behavioral science to promote disease management and prevention. Additionally, they should demonstrate a strong understanding of strategic risk management principles and their application across the healthcare value chain.

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.

At Smollan, we're on an evolutionary journey where we're shifting our story. We're looking for truly unique people who believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. Where our people are cared for, happy and inspired in building an extraordinary place to work.

Ready to make an impact? Join our HR Talent Pool

We're on the hunt for exceptional People Partners to join our evolving journey. If you're passionate about fostering diverse and inclusive environments, where people are cared for, happy, and inspired, then we want to hear from you

We are always on the lookout for an experienced and dynamic People Partners to join our business. In these roles you work closely the business, ensuring operational effectiveness and optimal human capital management. You'll drive compliance and provide functional leadership to the HR community. If you're a creative problem-solver who thrives on a challenge, let's connect

What we're looking for:

• 5-6 years of Human Resources experience, specifically within the
  retail, FMCG, or manufacturing
  sectors.
• An HR degree/diploma at NQF level 7.
• Solid knowledge of BCEA & LRA.
• Outstanding organizational and time-management skills.
• Proven leadership abilities.
• Strong reporting and analysis skills.
• A robust IR background, including CCMA experience.
• The ability to work independently and be a proactive problem-solver.

If you're ready to make a positive impact and looking for a new challenge, we invite you to join our talent pool

Metropolitan is one of the oldest financial services brands in South Africa. With a 125-year legacy of serving the communities in which it operates, Metropolitan represents true empowerment in serving Africa's people through affordable financial solutions that create financial growth and security.

Metropolitan operates in South Africa, but the brand is also present in 12 African countries including, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Metropolitan provides financial wellness solutions that meet the needs of low-income clients, including funeral insurance, health, savings, hospital cash-back cover, retirement solutions and life insurance.Visit us at:

Disclaimer As an applicant, please verify the legitimacy of this job advert on our company career page.

Role Purpose
Manage and motivate a team of Financial Advisors to deliver an excellent client experience and support the achievement of Metropolitan Channel sales targets.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Matric or equivalent NQF Level 5 qualification
• RE5
• FAIS Representative legislative qualification
• Class of Business 3 and 7 (preferable)

Experience

• 3-5 years of working experience in the financial services industry
• A minimum of 2 years of managerial experience overseeing the rendering of financial advice
• Experience in FAIS Tier 1 Long Term Insurance and Pension Benefit products
• A valid driver's license and access to your own vehicle
• Computer literacy

Duties & Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of Financial Advisers
• Developing action plans to drive sales and enhance performance.
• Ensuring compliance with operational processes and legislative requirements
• Cultivating a branch culture to energise employees and maximise productivity.
• Recruiting and selecting high performing Financial Advisers to join your team.

Competencies

• Business Acumen
• Client/ Stakeholder Commitment
• Drive for Results
• Leads Change and Innovation
• Motivating and Inspiring Team
• Impact and Influence
• Collaboration
• Self-Awareness and Insight

Discovery Health

Pre-authorisation Service 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 in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

What is a Talent Pool?

In simplest terms, a talent pool is a database of candidates that have already been deemed qualified for particular positions and who can be offered roles as soon as they become available.

What does this mean for you?

It's good news because it means, you will still go through the recruitment process (assessments, role plays and interviews) and if you meet our minimum criteria, will be next in line for consideration as soon as we require more staff.

You will remain as an active candidate on our database and we will update you on progress on a monthly basis.

Key Purpose

To deliver world class service to all Discovery Health Members, Providers, Employer groups, Hospitals, and Brokers by supporting and fully resolving their queries through various servicing channels, primarily over the telephone.

To effectively manage the risk of in-hospital admissions by using your clinical knowledge and integrating this with your understanding of the benefits of the scheme and ensuring accurate information regarding funding

Key Outputs

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:

• Confirming benefits according to set protocols and funding rules
• Accurately obtaining and capturing information to confirm correct funding
• Servicing all key stakeholders telephonically and via other servicing channels until the query has been resolved
• Servicing key stakeholders in a customer centric way to ensure that we live by our service principles
• Keeping up to date with product changes and benefits to ensure that all key stakeholders are accurately serviced
• Continuously staying abreast of all digital servicing tools within the business and ensuring that the functionality is fully understood
• Achieving and exceeding key performance metrics relating to service delivery
• Keeping abreast of continuous process, product updates and digital tools
• Dealing with multiple interactions
• Consistently utilizing all servicing tools available

Competencies and Skills

Behavioural Competencies

• Following instruction and procedures (Self-development)
• Analysing (Managing Complexity)
• Learning and Researching (Nimble Learning)
• Presenting and communicating information (Communicating effectively)
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations (Customer focus)
• Deciding and initiating action (Decision Quality)
• Working with people (Collaborating)
• Writing and reporting (Communicating effectively)

Knowledge

• Anatomy and Physiology

Skills

• Time Management
• Verbal and written communication
• Working under pressure

Personal Attribute And Skills

• Customer Centric

Education and Experience

Education

• Matric
• South African accredited Clinical Qualification

Experience

• At least 6 months working experience in a customer services or clinical environment

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.

At Smollan, we're on an evolutionary journey where we're shifting our story. We're looking for truly unique people who believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. Where our people are cared for, happy and inspired in building an extraordinary place to work.

Ready to make an impact? Join our HR Talent Pool

We're on the hunt for exceptional People Partners to join our evolving journey. If you're passionate about fostering diverse and inclusive environments, where people are cared for, happy, and inspired, then we want to hear from you

We are always on the lookout for an experienced and dynamic People Partners to join our business. In these roles you work closely the business, ensuring operational effectiveness and optimal human capital management. You'll drive compliance and provide functional leadership to the HR community. If you're a creative problem-solver who thrives on a challenge, let's connect

What we're looking for:

• 5-6 years of Human Resources experience, specifically within the
  retail, FMCG, or manufacturing
  sectors.
• An HR degree/diploma at NQF level 7.
• Solid knowledge of BCEA & LRA.
• Outstanding organizational and time-management skills.
• Proven leadership abilities.
• Strong reporting and analysis skills.
• A robust IR background, including CCMA experience.
• The ability to work independently and be a proactive problem-solver.

If you're ready to make a positive impact and looking for a new challenge, we invite you to join our talent pool