Healthcare Consultant

Position title

Health

Job category

Consultant

Department

Employee Health and Benefits

Location

Johannesburg

Country

South Africa

Employment type

Permanent

Purpose l Responsible for building and developing strong client relationships with a variety of clients nationally.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

- Must be FAIS compliant – minimum 120 credits and have passed RE 1 Examination

- Minimum 5 years’ client service experience within Health and Benefits environment

- Must have ability to work as part of a team in an open-plan office

- Must have the ability to work accurately with attention to detail

- Must be a good communicator

- Must have self-organisational skills

- Self-disciplined and deadline focused

- Strong critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills (peer review)

- Be fluent in English and Afrikaans (other language will be advantageous)

- Enthusiastic, energetic, yet professional

- Must have driver’s license, own vehicle and be willing to travel to see clients (local and provincial)

- Must have MS Office knowledge proficiency

- Provide project feedback to Consulting Leader and/or Client Executive

Key responsibilities

- Regular onsite/virtual client visits to build and maintain relationships with the local and global client, including multinational colleagues

- Provide payroll/HR contact training as and when required

- Assist with billing when and where necessary

- Build and provide quarterly strategic reports to clients, this includes market reviews, subsidy reviews and benchmarking

- Coordinate Wellness days with client and relevant providers

- Drafting and circulation of minutes after HR meetings to HR contact person at company

- Product and procedure training – HR, payroll and members

- Planning and completion of adhoc special projects

- Recording of training attendance registers

- Ensure all compliance and FAIS documentation is completed at clients and one-on-one consultations

- Submit minutes notes to HR after induction/training sessions have taken place to show who attended and if there were any questions/problems areas of concern

- Conducting presentations and one-on-one member consultations

- Manage process efficiently including:

• Training sessions
• One-on-one consultations
• Renewal presentations to local client and multinational stakeholders (client and colleagues)
• Update multinational platforms as required (Trackers,
• option change forms
• Communication and marketing material to client and or HR with regard to training dates and presentations
• Renewal approval from stakeholders (Multinational head office client)
• Adhere to Rules of the Road (RoR)
• Update Statement of Work (SOW) annually
• Distribution of marketing material for staff and client

- Product training and advice to clients when necessary (one-on-one consultations and presentations to groups)

- Basic pre-assessment / underwriting of all new business received

- Email /Admin & query management (*Please refer to note below)

• Manage escalated queries by interacting with medical schemes and gap cover providers on behalf of members and clients, with the transactional team
• Regular and reliable follow up of all queries that arise from one-on-one consultations, via email or via telephone
• Ensure resolution of all problematic client queries
• Manage and effectively use CRM system (Brokertools)
• Ensure all onsite queries are loaded on CRM system

Key relationships

Consulting Leader and/or Head of Consulting

All insurers and all other relevant providers

General staff

Competencies

- Strong administration skills

- A high level of confidentiality

- Excellent interpersonal and customer-facing skills

- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

- The flexibility and willingness to learn

- Tact and diplomacy

- Must have good presentation skills

- Passionate about clients and service

- Able to work in a high pressure environment

- Deadline driven

- Must have own car and valid driver’s licence

Reporting structure

Reporting directly to the Consulting Leader and/or Client Executive