Service Consultant

JOB DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this position is to provide support to the relationship management function. The candidate will be responsible for delivering quality service to customers, who could be either internal or external to Santam (including intermediaries, customers, partners, and suppliers).The successful incumbent will provide support to address customer needs, concerns, and issues.

• Provide customer service to customers requiring special attention.
• Serve as the first line of contact for customer queries.
• Communicate with stakeholders to provide information, feedback, and follow-through on customer queries and/or instructions to the team.
• Address unusual and non-standard customer issues.
• Task-related decision making within set policies and procedures.
• Schedule appointments on request.
• Manage e-mails via proxy.
• Assist with logistics and events and broker forum management.
• Provide reception services.
• Direct intermediaries to deal with the correct channels.
• Monthly management cost analysis – variance reporting.
• Compile intermediary training lists and facilitate ad hoc requests.

• Grade 12.
• FAIS compliance (60 credits Commercial Lines and 30 credits Personal Lines).
• RE 5
• Commercial Lines and Personal Lines Contact Centre experience will be advantageous

• Proficient with MS Excel, basic Word, Qlik View, and intranet.
• Detailed understanding and knowledge of Santam processes.
• Thorough understanding of all relevant customer support systems and processes related to all products

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding, and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients, and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business, so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible, whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals, we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.

Our recruitment process

There is not just one way to be successful at Santam, nor is there one way to interview with us. Interviewing is a two-way process - it helps us learn about you, and it helps you learn about us, our people, and what you could do here.

Santam has been officially recognised by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer 2025 for excellence in people practices. This is the ninth consecutive year that we have achieved this accolade.