185 Talent Pool jobs in South Africa

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:

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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.

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.

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.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Arrive timorously for work.
• Deliver items daily as per schedule.
• Pick up goods and reports daily.
• Drive within the laws of S.A as laid out in the road safety act.
• Responsible to ensure that the vehicle is roadworthy (Pre & post trip vehicle inspections).
• Maintain the logbook for the record mileage for every trip.
• Submit petrol slips used monthly.
• Provide professional and excellent customer service.
• May be required to assist with any other duties that may be outside scope of responsibility

Skills and Competencies

• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Planning and organizing skills
• Time management skills
• Ability to record and update data
• Excellent driving skill

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate
• Valid Drivers License
• PDP License (advantageous)

Description
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Side is a global video game development and services provider, offering technical and creative solutions to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in Japan in 1994, Side has grown to become a global force in the video game industry, with over 40 studios in 15 countries worldwide and offices across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.

Our industry-leading services include codev, art production, localization, audio production, quality assurance, localization QA, player support, community management, and datasets.

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As a Technical Artist, you will serve as a bridge between the art and engineering teams, ensuring that our assets and tools meet both creative and technical requirements for AAA-quality games across PC, console, mobile, and VR/AR platforms. Your expertise will play a vital role in optimizing pipelines, solving complex technical challenges, and delivering world-class visuals.

About This Opportunity

Please note, this listing is not for an immediate open position but for our Talent Pool for Co-Development Roles. By applying, you express interest in being considered for future project-based opportunities that align with your skills and experience.

These opportunities are contingent on client needs and project availability. As projects are initiated or client proposals are developed, we will review candidates from this pool and contact those who most closely align with the specific requirements of the co-development opportunity.

How We Keep You Engaged

We maintain strong relationships with our talent pool by providing regular updates, industry insights, and information on upcoming opportunities. We will check in to confirm your availability and interest.

Our hiring teams carefully vet and select top candidates who best meet project needs, ensuring that you are matched with the right opportunity when it becomes available.

Next Steps

If you are passionate about contributing to cutting-edge projects and want to be considered for future co-development opportunities, we encourage you to apply to this listing. While there may not be an immediate opening, your application ensures that you will be part of our ongoing talent review for upcoming roles.

Only resumes submitted in English will be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between art and engineering teams, facilitating communication and solving technical challenges.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain pipelines and tools for art asset creation and integration.
• Collaborate with artists and engineers to ensure that assets meet performance, memory, and technical requirements across platforms.
• Debug and resolve technical issues related to shaders, rendering, and asset optimization.
• Implement and refine real-time visual effects, lighting setups, and material systems to achieve high-quality visuals.
• Provide technical support and training to artists, helping them leverage tools and workflows efficiently.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and technologies, incorporating innovative solutions into workflows.
• Document tools, pipelines, and best practices to ensure seamless onboarding and knowledge sharing within the team.

Experience:

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in the video game industry.
• Demonstrated contribution to at least one shipped title on PC, console, mobile, or VR/AR.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, MEL, or MaxScript) and tools development.
• Strong understanding of shaders, rendering pipelines, and material creation in game engines like Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Experience with 3D modeling and texturing tools such as Maya, Blender, Substance Painter, or ZBrush.
• Knowledge of optimization techniques for performance across platforms.

Problem-Solving Skills:

• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to identify and resolve technical challenges efficiently.

Collaboration Skills:

• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities, with experience working closely with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to balance technical and creative goals, ensuring high-quality results.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with procedural tools like Houdini.
• Experience with visual scripting systems such as Unreal Engine's Blueprint or Unity's Shader Graph.
• Knowledge of rigging, skinning, and animation workflows.
• Experience in VR/AR development or real-time ray tracing technologies.

Note: Specific requirements may vary depending on project needs.

• Responsible for maintaining SHEQ standards on and around your machine
• Responsible for stacking and packing
• Ensure safe stacking of product
• Responsible for reporting substandard housekeeping conditions in your workplace
• Responsible for reporting on quality of product transported with your machine
• Make sure that you are properly qualified and certified to operate the equipment
• Never allow anyone that is not properly qualified to operate the equipment
• Always make sure the machine is locked and safe, i.e bucket or forks to be down, before maintenance or cleaning work on the machine can be done
• Responsible for keeping management informed about the condition of the machine

• Responsible to achieve maximum productivity from your machine
• Responsible to maintain enough fuel in tanks to complete the following shift

• Filling in checklists as per specific requirements on equipment
• Report any machine malfunctions immediately
• Basic maintenance of machine (check oil, grease, etc.)
• Keeping your machine clean and tidy
• Ensure 1 hourly inspections are conducted for wound up strapping on prop shafts and wheel joints

• The nature of this position is of high responsibility. Operators must be reliable and add value to the team
• Operators will be monitored closely for absenteeism
• Be available for ADHOC work and work shifts when requested

• Where required, production records and checklists are to kept and submitted to the Site Supervisor on a daily basis
• Record daily tasks and any maintenance done on your machine
• Inform Site Supervisor 3 months before your license expires

• Grade 10
• 1-3 years forklift operating experience is required
• Literate, able to fill in diary and reports
• Qualification to operate forklift