Senior Advanced Data

5 months ago


Springs, South Africa PG Group Processing Full time

**Main job purpose**:
Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in shaping the future of our business? As a Market Analyst for Glass Products, you will play a crucial part in revolutionizing our sales and planning strategies. Your primary responsibility will be to provide a comprehensive analytical service, leveraging import statistics and sales data to discern the market dynamics of flat glass in South Africa and neighboring countries. This integral role directly influences PFG's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) demand plan, steering the course for our continued success

**Main objective**:

- Develop and provide support to the planning and sales teams in determining & establishing the market size for building glass products, both locally and neighbouring countries
- Compile data and build dashboard to maintain a glass import tracking system for Sub Saharan Africa to enable the development and refinement of sales strategies for the different regions
- Determine our market shares in each of those regions and advise on strategies to improve market shares
- Explore leading indicators that will improve predictions of future market changes for improved sales forecasts and budgets as well as enrichment of input into the IBP demand plan
- Conduct in depth analysis of complex data sets to establish true landed costs of building glass products entering Southern Africa and use this as an input to determine price strategies for each region
- Analyse import data and proactively advise SARS of possible outliers in import statistics to assist their targeted import investigation unit in finding non-compliant declarations
- The eventual aim is to build an expert system to assist SARS in identifying outliers so eventually they can find these themselves, with occasional checks to ensure the system is flagging the correct items
- Benchmark prices of automotive glass products worldwide and advise the export sales team of pricing trends to assist in developing export pricing strategies for the various regions in the world
- Identify trends and opportunities to guide procurement in identifying buyers and/or suppliers of critical products and to benchmark prices of those products for the Group.

**Qualifications**:
BCom with strong Computer Science and Statistics or B Eng. Industrial

**Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of structuring large data sets and manipulation of data
- Understanding of macro-economic factors and its impact on market trends
- Statistical forecasting knowledge data model building
- Knowledge of data visualisation dashboards and presentation

**Skills**:

- Communication & Presentation Skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Methodical and logical planning
- Statistical forecasting
- Technical expertise regarding data models
- Good understanding of economic principles

**Experience**:

- 8 Years experience, preferably in an analytical role with sales and marketing experience. Planning experience would be an advantage.
- SQL experience
- Planning experience
- Ability to interact with people at all levels
- Excel & BI experience
- Statistical forecasting
- Marketing research

**PFG**:
PFG, a division of the PG Group, is the leading manufacturer of float glass in Southern Africa, as well as laminated glass and mirror products. The company, situated near Johannesburg in South Africa, produces 260 000 tons of high quality

Ability to Commute:

- Springs, Gauteng (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Springs, Gauteng: Relocate before starting work (required)


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