Business Manager: RA SanlamConnect Intermediaries Cape (Bellville/Stellenbosch) (JG 12)

What will you do?

Leverage, influence and big vision, bring big opportunities, big rewards.
Play a critical role in ensuring that the region achieves its financial targets (sales, expenses, profitability, quality, sustainability and capacity). Projections and predictions may vary, but ultimately, this is the result we seek.
Sanlam Broker Distribution is the distinctive hub of our business, central to driving investor flows and keeping our brand and national footprint as strong as it is. We are a dynamic, innovative and high performance distribution channel, committed to the value of independent intermediated advice and to long-term relationships between brokers and their clients.
As an integral part of Sanlam Broker Distribution, your primary focus is to manage a team of Broker consultants in the region, drive sales, and implement marketing initiatives with Brokers to reach business objectives in a dynamic, innovative and high performance business.

1.    Drive Strategy to increase Sanlam Broker Distribution’s market share in the Industry
2.    Drive new business sales through the Broker Consultants via different activities and initiatives 
3.    Ensure Operational effectiveness (infrastructure, budget, processes, people)
4.    Building and maintaining broker relationships 
5.    Manage, vest and develop Broker Consultants 

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & experience: 
•    Matric 
•    CFP or relevant Financial Degree 
•    10 years Financial Services experience
•    5 years of which should be in a management role in a Broker Distribution environment
•    Sales and marketing background 

Knowledge and skills: 
•    MS: Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint
•    Broker Tools (i.e. compliance tools, broker web)
•    Maestro 
•    Business Management: 
•    Financial Services Industry Knowledge (Broker Distribution)
•    Financial Services Product Knowledge (Sanlam and competitors)
•    Relevant regulatory legislation and compliance knowledge 
•    Expense, admin and process management 
•    Basic legal technical knowledge 
•    Marketing and sales principles 
•    Management and coaching others 

Personal qualities:
•    Technical knowledge 
•    Work standards 
•    Business acumen
•    Coaching 
•    Decision making 
•    Communication 
•    Team success 
•    Results driven 
•    Task structuring 
•    Treating customers fairly 

Personal Attributes

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Turnaround time

•    The closing date for applications is the 4th of September 2026.

The recruiter reserves the right to withdraw the advertisement prior to the closing date or to allow further applications to be submitted after the closing date indicated.  

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.  

Our aim is to help you build a successful career with us 

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development. 

Our commitment to transformation