Analytics Team Lead - Cape Town (perm or contract)

 

Recruiter:

5th Dimension Consulting

Job Ref:

Analytics Team Lead

Date posted:

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

negotiable


SUMMARY:
Seeking an Analytics Team Lead with a BCom/ BSc or relevant tertiary qualification plus 3-5 years experience in Business and Data analysis, Solutions design & Testing, Data modeling, for a permanent or contract position with a large retail company in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

Job Purpose

  • Work closely with leaders across Marketing, Buying and other business department to support and implement high-quality, data-driven decisions.
  • Lead cross-functional teams using advanced data modeling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities.

 Responsibilities

  • Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.
  • Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve team performance and measurement in the future.
  • Define the data elements and data structure that teams should leverage to enable analytical and reporting capabilities for our business development team.
  • Design and influence operational best practices for reporting and analytics to enable the team to scale.
  • Prepare and deliver business reviews to the management team regarding progress and roadblocks.
  • Work with engineering and the data warehouse to enable the appropriate capture and storage of key data points.
  • Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
  • Participate in strategic & tactical planning discussions.

 Requirements

Qualifications

BCom/ BSc or relevant tertiary qualification.

Experience

  • 3-5 years experience in Business and Data analysis, Solutions design & Testing, Data modeling.
  • 3 years experience in leading a high performance team.

Technical Skills

  • High level knowledge of appropriate statistical techniques.
  • Fluency in a programming language (R, Python, SQL).
  • Experience with common data science toolkits , such as R, SAS, Alteryx, Knime etc.
  • Experience with data visualization tools.

Competencies

  • Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
  • Executive level stakeholder management experience.
  • Ability to stay calm under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
  • A great, positive and enthusiastic team player.
  • Ability to prioritise conflicting demands.


 

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