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YASMIN PILLAY, Business Consultant

YASMIN PILLAY

Business Consultant·Sanlam Insurance

South Africa

Diploma, NQF level5

Work experience

Total years of experience: 26 years, 5 months

Business Consultant

January 2022 - Present

Sanlam Insurance

Durban, South Africa

January 2022 - Present

• Overlooking a panel of 22 accredited Financial Advisors
• Training and assisting with product development.
• Enhancing growth to the business of the brokerage
• Comparisons for competitors
• Monthly targets
• Building and developing relationships within different businesses
• Marketing life, health, and investment product
• Events planning and co- ordination for 200 + clients
• Brand marketing for lead generation

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA

Specialist Advisor

January 2021 - January 2022

Fgro Financial Services

Durban, South Africa

January 2021 - January 2022

• Selling Discoverys Insure product
• Outsourcing new leads, by cold calling
• Signing on new business and servicing existing business
• Face to face interactions with clients
• Target and sales driven
• Building of a new commercial book
• Processing of new claims

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA

CLIENT LIASION MANAGER

February 2014 - December 2020

Discovery Health

Other

February 2014 - December 2020

Overlooking KZN private hospitals ( Netcare and Life healthcare)
• Visiting 30-40 new patients everyday across KZN
• Assisting and resolving claims, admissions, hospitals stays
• Educating members on the latest products
• Digitally upskilling members so that they save on airtime
• Authorizing homecare. Rehab, discharge etc.
• Attending hospital board meetings once a month
• Phenomenal relationships with doctors, executives, and hospital staff
• An ambassador for Discovery, (dealt with celebrities and execs and parliament members)
• Dealt with the only Paed haematology hospital in KZN,
• Worked and counselled Cancer patients from the start of their journey
• Worked for a year with Covid members and assisted with counselling and Oximeter.
• Daily stats and data to be shared on a live spreadsheet.
• Worked with all labs in the country with daily stats
• Volunteered and managed 30 staff at the NICD (1 st call centre in the country for 1 month)

Company industry:
Other Healthcare Services
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

REPLACEMENT OFFICER

January 2011 - January 2014

Discovery Life

Johannesburg, South Africa

January 2011 - January 2014

• Investigating brokers replacement forms
• Clawback of commission if policy lapses
• Direct communication with brokers and franchises
• +- 200 processes a day
• Preparation of internal and external audits
• Daily interactions with external companies
◦ Calling on a panel of 20different brokers, all writing different products
◦ Training and educating them on all the latest products
◦ Processing of all new business and servicing existing business
◦ Key account management of all clients
◦ Identifying clients pressure and pain points, creating an innovative approach with the abilities of our
products
◦ Enhancing growth and development strategies for their brokerages
◦ Preparation of marketing plans, Executives summaries, and monthly targets and sales reports Reason

Company industry:
Financial Services

BUSINESS CONSULTANT

January 2011 - December 2012

Discovery Franchise( DCS JHB )

Durban, South Africa

January 2011 - December 2012

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA

ASSOCIATE BUSINESS CONSULTANT

December 2008 - December 2010

Discovery Franchise ( DCS METRO)

Durban, South Africa

December 2008 - December 2010

• Personal assistant to Business consultant
• Liaising with brokers and their assistance
• Processing of new business
• Working on paradigm and Citrix
• Liaising with head office with all new business and processing of applications

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA

SHORT TERM BROKER CONSULTANT

January 2006 - December 2008

Afken Financial Services

Johannesburg, South Africa

January 2006 - December 2008

• Liaising with 9 different underwriters obtaining new quotes
• Sales
• New business processing
• Claims
• Servicing of existing clients

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA

NATIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGER/ DIRECTOR

January 2000 - January 2006

Nurses on Call

Johannesburg, South Africa

January 2000 - January 2006

• Setting up of business structure, planning and execution of business systems and processes
• training -+ 30 staff members country wide to work in a 24hr call centre
• Regular travelling to different regions overlooking all the offices
• Planning and recruitment in line with business growth and development targets
• Stimulating and educating training for staff to execute responsibilities
• Business development, marketing, innovatively expanding into new business areas ahead of
competitors and undertaking strategic partnership decisions
• Office and business administration (corporate governance, financial reports managements)

Attending CCMA cases,
• Government tender at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital contract)
• Liaising with Private hospital management daily
• Monthly meeting with executives from Netcare and Life healthcare
• Payroll for managed for +- 1000 nurses weekly

Company industry:
Residential & Nursing Care Services

Education

Milpark

December 2021

December 2021

Diploma, NQF level5

South Africa

milpark

January 2021

January 2021

Diploma, NQF level 5

South Africa

Trenance Park Secondary

January 1999

January 1999

High school or equivalent, matric

South Africa

Skills

Health Specialist Experts HSE
Expert
Health Specialist Experts HSE
Expert
Executive Liaison
Expert
Executive Liaison
Expert
Client Service
Expert
Client Service
Expert
Patient Care
Expert
Patient Care
Expert
Management
Expert
Management
Expert
leadership
Expert
leadership
Expert
teamwork
Expert
teamwork
Expert
Customer service
Expert
Customer service
Expert
communication skills
Expert
communication skills
Expert
Emotional intelligence
Expert
Emotional intelligence
Expert

Languages

English
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Driver's License Code 08

Hobbies

  • Involved in many charitable organizations
  • I started an NGO to support Cancer families