Specialist: Product Analyst
Date: 18 Apr 2024
Location: Johannesburg GAU ZA, GT, ZA
Company: Liberty Group Limited
At Liberty, we employ more than 6 000 people across 7 businesses in 18 African countries. Every day, our employees grow their knowledge by working with diverse groups of people who specialise in a wide range of skills across insurance, asset management, investment and health products. We continually seek to engage, develop, recognise and reward the people who make our business great.
Purpose
Provide support to the investment product team in delivering the strategic deliverables, development and ongoing management of products, technical knowledge of the investment landscape to produce insights required for the servicing of stakeholders
Minimum Experience
Critical Job
- Product development and lifecycle management, including product positioning and differentiation; and
- Demonstrating thought leadership in solution design and delivery.
- Executing on strategies to create meaningful coverage of the chosen go-to market strategies
- Working collaboratively with a team of investment specialists in executing on the investment proposition
- Extracting valuable behavioural patterns from the data for feedback into the product management process
- Using these insights in a way that supports our bigger investment proposition
- Feedback to a team who produces ongoing collateral supporting our investment proposition, e.g. fund fact sheets, standard presentation, market commentary, etc.
- Consolidate market insights and commentaries from various parties in the Group and STANLIB, as well as source / prepare additional information pieces depending on the demand
Feeding back up-to-date industry insights, including:
- Competitor intelligence and comparisons: understand our competitors' positioning and main selling points, identify and drive content to allow our sales force to position our offerings appropriately and competitively against competitors; offerings
- Industry intelligence (local and foreign): anticipate future market changes, investigate internal trends (current and past), identify unrelated industries' impact on the investment world, etc.
- Product and client insights to support decision-making and strategy
Minimum Qualifications
Additional Minimum Qualifications
Actuarial, CFA or similar
Competencies
Product Development
Product Knowledge
Research and Information Gathering
Professional/Technical learning
Conceptual Thinking
Financial Awareness
Innovative Thinking
Results Orientation
Communication
Networking / relationship management
Liberty Group Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and the group's Transformation Strategy, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards the achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the organisation.
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.
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