Merchandise Analyst

11 hours ago

Cape Town, South Africa Engen Full time

**Purpose of the Job**:
Provide analytics that supports & informs decision making and is aligned with the achievement of the strategic goals through creating, managing, evaluating, investigating and analyzing data queries relating to category management, optimizing data & frameworks within which the category.
Management process can effectively operate and engaging with teams and data management, stakeholders to ensure such queries are resolved.

**Who you are**:

- You are a dynamic thinker with a high aptitude for learning
- You have built credibility within your organization and amongst your peers
- You are an expert at interpretation and execution of strategic objectives
- You are passionate about retail and selling, especially the customer experience
- You have excellent communication and negotiation skills
- You have a detailed understanding of data and why its accuracy is key
- You have a reputation for being insightful and operating with integrity
- You are able to collaborate with people outside our team within your organisation.

**What you've done before**:
Baseline:
NQF Level 6 (Diploma in Analytics/Sciences/Technology)
5 years' experience in Data Analytics (within the Retail environment)
Knowledge of Regional Occupational Health & Safety Policy and Occupational Health
& Safety Act.
Advantageous:
BSc Mathematics/ Stats/ Data Science/ BI
3 years' experience Advanced Analytics in a Specialist role within Food Retailing
Experience on Qlikview/ SQL/ Programming
Exciting Challenges you might face in the role
Immerse yourself in various aspects of the organisation
Influencing the strategic direction of Engen convenience business
Learning from, and being able to influence some of the best and experienced people
Operate effectively in an ever-changing, dynamic and agile business

**What you'll be doing**:

- Undertake multiple data sources that will deliver actionable insights and recommendations to the merchandising and category teams.
- Perform accurate data analysis in support of informed decision making within the categories and with a view to improve profits and customer satisfaction indicators across the NFR business.
- Service ad-hoc requests for information within the required timeframe and specification, with a focus on translating ad-hoc solutions into effective, sustainable solutions.
- Integrate customer insights data with assortment & space data to provide further.
- understanding on customer behaviours in order to assist & inform the category management decision making process.
- Ensure timeous and accurate production of reports through analysis of trends and interpretation, with special emphasis on customer behavior & insights and on space optimisation.
- Ensure understanding of defined data standards and clearly execute the range of acceptable values and attributes for data.
- Ensure that business requirements of the end user are properly aligned to agreed data.
- Governance standards, definitions & calculations, criteria and business processes & standards.
- Adhere to formal established processes and take responsibility for leading and supporting the greater business data standards and efforts.
- Collaborate with other data stewards to resolve issues related to standards and definitions for data elements that cross domains.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to assist with analytics within areas such as impact analysis (stock write-downs & reviews), capacity reports & post implementation.
- Reviews and macro analysis and returns/ performance to ensure effective decision making.
- Engage with business and IT stakeholders to focus on continuous improvement of information in terms of relevance, quality and speed of delivery.
- Ensure data accuracy through monitoring data completeness, integrity and quality to ensure availability of correct information at all times.
- Ensure compliance to data governance through data cleansing & provision of feedback and taking ownership of data management.

**Additional Innformation**:
Location: Cape Town

Band: FH

**Job Advert Closing Date**: All job adverts close five days after date posted

**Engen’s approved Employment Equity plans and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process.**

**Important Information**:

- The appointment will be made in line with Engen's Employment Equity Strategy.
- Engen reserves the right not to make an appointment.

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