Regional Manager

RegionalManager

Lead a high-performing insurance business where sales excellence, underwriting discipline and broker partnerships drive profitable growth.

We’re looking for a commercially astute, people-focused Regional Manager to take ownership of our KwaZulu-Natal operation. You’ll shape and execute the regional sales and underwriting strategy, build meaningful broker relationships, develop talent, and deliver exceptional customer outcomes, while achieving ambitious growth, profitability and loss-ratio targets.

What you’ll lead

• Drive profitable growth through strong sales, underwriting and broker-channel performance
• Lead, coach and develop a specialist regional team
• Own regional budgets, expense management, reporting and operational performance
• Strengthen existing broker relationships while expanding the broker network
• Optimise processes, governance and customer experience across the region
• Monitor portfolio performance, loss ratios, cost of risk and sales initiatives, taking decisive action where needed
• Partner with executive leadership and key internal stakeholders to influence strategy and regional results

What you’ll bring

• A relevant degree in Commerce, Finance, Business Administration, Science or similar
• 10+ years’ short-term insurance experience, including senior leadership exposure
• Proven success leading teams and delivering profitable sales and underwriting outcomes
• Strong technical knowledge of insurance, underwriting, broker distribution and the South African market
• FAIS compliance, RE5 Product and KI/RE1 status, or the ability to obtain this quickly
• Excellent commercial judgement, financial acumen, communication and stakeholder-management skills
• An established broker network and strong market reputation will be a distinct advantage

This is an opportunity for a strategic, hands-on leader to build a centre of excellence in KwaZulu-Natal, creating sustainable growth, stronger broker partnerships and a high-performance regional culture.