TECHNICAL SALES SPECIALIST – HEALTHCARE, WELLNESS & EAP

SUMMARY:
Are you technically strong, commercially minded and confident engaging with clients around healthcare, medical aid, wellness and employee assistance solutions?
An established organisation within the employee benefits and healthcare space is looking for a Technical Sales Specialist – Healthcare, Wellness & EAP to support its sales team and play a key role in developing tailored solutions for corporate clients.
This is an opportunity to combine your healthcare expertise with your commercial and client-facing skills, helping businesses understand their options and implement solutions that deliver meaningful value to their employees.

POSITION INFO:

What you'll be doing

• Provide technical support to the sales team across medical aid, health insurance, wellness and EAP solutions.
• Understand client requirements, employee demographics and existing benefit structures.
• Analyse and compare healthcare benefits, providers, pricing, networks and service models.
• Assist with developing tailored healthcare and wellness solutions.
• Prepare professional client presentations, proposals, benefit comparisons and recommendations.
• Translate complex healthcare information into clear, practical and commercially relevant messaging.
• Support client meetings and confidently respond to technical questions and objections.
• Conduct market research and benchmarking across medical aid, health insurance and wellness solutions.
• Support opportunities throughout the sales process, from qualification and analysis through to presentation, close and handover.
• Assist with wellness proposals, activation plans and client engagement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to introduce additional wellness and EAP solutions to existing clients.
• Support healthcare-related tenders and proposals for large corporate and public-sector clients where required.
• Maintain accurate CRM records and ensure all relevant opportunity documentation is up to date.

What we're looking for

• Matric is essential.
• A relevant qualification in Healthcare, Employee Benefits, Insurance, Business, Commerce, Marketing or a related field will be advantageous.
• 3–6 years' experience in medical aid, healthcare consulting, health insurance, wellness, EAP, employee benefits, broker consulting or a related financial-services environment.
• Healthcare / medical aid / employee benefits experience is essential.
• Strong understanding of healthcare, wellness and EAP solutions.
• Experience preparing client presentations, proposals, benefit comparisons or market reviews.
• Strong analytical and benchmarking abilities.
• Excellent presentation and proposal-writing skills.
• Confident, professional client-facing communication.
• Commercial awareness with a strong understanding of sales and revenue objectives.
• Ability to simplify technical information and communicate it effectively to clients.
• Experience within corporate employee benefits will be advantageous.
• Knowledge of NHI and broader healthcare market developments will be advantageous.