Hollard Insurance South Africa: General Manager – Corporate Brand

Hollard is South Africa’s largest independent and privately owned insurance group.  At Hollard we are passsionate about our core values and culture. As such, we eat, breathe and sleep our values of customer focus, delivery, integrity, using initiative, having a zest for life and living ubuntu (human dignity). It’s important to note though, that while we take our work seriously, we try not to take ourselves too seriously by always ensuring that there’s a healthy balance in our work environment. After all, recognising that people are individuals and treating everyone with respect is at the core of the Hollard DNA.

Hollardites are collectively insightful, innovative, entrepreneurial, passionate and conscientious – but we’re also about enjoying what we do, within an environment that encourages and rewards individuality, imagination and flair. This is vital to the success of a business such as ours which does not sell a physical product but endeavours to consistently deliver on our promises. We are essentially a business about people adding value to the lives of other people and being there when they need us most.

With these key principles as our driving force, we are determined to maintain our differentiation and know that this can only be achieved if we continue to invest in our most prized resource – our people.

Title: General Manager – Corporate Brand

Job Code: CS0001

Closing Date: 31 Jul 2010

Location: Johannesburg

Business Unit / Division: Central Services – Group Marketing

Context:

• The successful candidate will lead the team that is responsible for:
• Strategic marketing input to Hollard Business units and their partners.
• Brand management of the Hollard brand including press liason.
• Coordinating internal communication across Hollard.
• Creating and coordinating differentiated experiential events across Hollard.
• Delivering creative solutions via the Design Team.

Customers: Entire Business

Outputs:

• Build the reputation of Hollard in South Africa and across our regional and global business
• Ensure alignment of  Hollard’s strategy, the values and the brand
• Assist divisions and partners with their strategic and operational marketing requirements
• Grow the competencies of the Corporate Brand Team

Competencies:

• Qualifications / Work Experience:
• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Post Graduate qualification an advantage
• Previous experience in marketing / branding
• 4+ years appropriate senior management experience

Knowledge:

• General business acumen
• Market and competitor knowledge
• Excellent experience in strategic thinking and the ability to turn strategy into action

Skills:

• Strategic thinking skills
• Advanced communication skills

Personal Qualities:

• Live the Hollard Brand
• Proven ability to leave and motivate a team
• Ability to influence and make a difference
• Problem analysis
• Results and achievement orientation
• Initiative
• Customer Focus
• Assertiveness

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