Insights and Analytics Analyst

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Shoprite Full time

Purpose of the Job

The purpose of the  Insights and Analytics Analyst role is to leverage Medirite Healthcare’s rich data assets to provide actionable trends and insights that enable business to make sound decisions. The role works collaboratively in a cross-functional, agile team, executing a variety of complex data analytics projects, including modeling, and framing of business scenarios to solve analytical problems, performing experimental design approaches to validate findings or test hypotheses, depicting, and presenting the rationale of findings in easy-to-understand terms for business and providing consolidated business reports and dashboards. The Data Analyst is a critical thinker who applies their technical, analytical, and communication skills to infer meaning from data and translate these into a concise, cohesive, and engaging story. The role aims to improve efficiency and processes and assist in recommending solutions to problems, the role seeks to provide full support to the buying and marketing team in terms of providing proactive data analytics that support marketing and buying analysis taking accountability for providing timely recommendations.

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Job Advert Details Job CategoryRetail Job Objectives

Role Description

Work with business stakeholders to understand and correctly frame analysis requirements, hypotheses, and questions and propose fit-for-purpose data-led solutions. Collaborate with business, technology, and development teams to agree on the appropriate data and application of analytical techniques to generate valuable business insights. Write complex business requirements/modifications to transform data into common and graphical formats, reports, and dashboards. Scope, design, build, and publish comprehensive and compelling dashboards, reports, and analytical findings including insightful observations, commentary, and recommendations to optimise or increase the effectiveness of initiatives. Support with complex data-related queries from business stakeholders, helping to resolve issues or enable understanding and integration of findings to unlock key insights. Validate datasets and reports and proactively resolve any data or metric-related issues. Assess the accuracy of data sources and data gathering techniques, and ensure that data quality and integrity are maintained. Maintain documentation, user guides, or training material, ensuring the same language and definitions are applied. Guide and support new and emerging data analysts with new and complex projects. Collaborate across teams and functions to fully leverage data and enable transformative insights that drive sound business decisions. Stay updated on developments in data analytics and adjacent fields to ensure the latest techniques and methods are applied. Stay updated on product and consumer trends to provide valuable insights to the buying community.

Specific Inputs

Weekly tracking of deranged stock to aggressively drive reduction of deranged stock. Identify & track high promotional OOS (out-of-stock) items daily during the promotion period to minimize high OOS percentages. Create and maintain an OOS dashboard to highlight items with a consistently high OOS. Develop reporting structures for trend analysis on high OOS/lost sales categories and articles. Develop and maintain comparative analysis on sales growth (i.e. impact of inflation). Summary of Core Minimum Assortment (CMA) in-stock % to drive high in-stock levels. Provide weekly and monthly Category Growth feedback. Summary of deranged stock performance per category. Monthly overview PowerPoint presentation of outliers, suggestions, and recommendations. Compile reporting and feedback for the monthly executive meeting. Report on price surveys and highlight gaps and opportunities in pricing, consolidate and track with buying. Post promotional performance analysis. Analyse market share data to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and present buying with findings and insightful observations Mine available data through xtra savings and Rex platforms to present buyers with compelling findings and insights. Analyse and present buying with ranging gaps and opportunities. Measure and report on buying key objectives and metrics. Measure and report on key customer data to provide buying with valuable insights on basket growths and customer migration within the store universe and within categories. Qualifications

Essential:

Degree or Diploma in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems / or Degree in commerce with a focus in (Accounting/Economics/Financial Management/Business management). Experience

Essential:

+2 years’ experience working as part of a progressive operational data team, ideally in a similar role, with proven experience developing analytics products and working with large data sets, distilling it down and shaping it in a way that informs operational improvements and decision-making. Working knowledge of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel, Power Query in Excel, Tableau, MS Power BI, Structured Query Language (SQL). Experience applying analytical formulas, modelling and trend forecasting of multiple data sources across systems

Desirable:

Experience in retail Knowledge and Skills

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

Strong  analytical thinking skills  and highly numerate – Collect, organise, and assimilate disparate, multiple, and  complex pieces of data  to draw sound conclusions and  arrive at optimal solutions . Passion and excitement for retail and related data , new technologies and solutions, and their range of possibilities, applications, and value. High level of  self-motivation  and  drive  to meet and  exceed goals and expectations . Able to work independently and use own initiative to deal with challenges across a range of  problem-solving challenges  as and when they arise. Detailed ,  organised  and  quality-focused – Has an affinity for detail, structure, and  efficiency,  balancing  planning , and  execution . Strong communication  and  presentation skills  – Explain and simplify complex technical concepts and compile visual reports that tell a concise and compelling story. Team player  and  collaborative partner . Ability to  work under pressure and with tight time constraints , efficiently prioritising workloads, balancing multiple and competing priorities and demands, and managing time effectively in a high-volume, fast-moving environment. Is  curious  and  open to learning  with a  strong interest  in data, discovery,  and  trying new ideas . Exposure to SAP Buying / Retail Systems.

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