takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Data Analyst to join our Cape Town Team.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
Your responsibilities will include the following:
- Building and optimising models and reports using support tools i.e. Looker, Looker Studio, Dataform, Branch Dashboards, Weekly reports to inform operational decisions and drive improvement
- Creating reports with focus areas for business improvement
- Building dashboards to be used by the business for exception management
- Identifying important variables and focus areas in the business
- Analysing data to answer strategic and operational questions posed by the business
- Automating data extraction and report update processes
- Provide information to various stakeholders
- Data Validation and integrity testing
- Data Cleansing and data modelling
- Provide information to various stakeholders
- Collaborate with TDT managers and Franchise Managers to establish project plans while accounting for the trade-offs between operational practicality and overall performance
- Provide significant support to TDT according to weekly goals and targeted metrics
- Use weekly and monthly targets to manage day-to-day performance and inform operations for best impact
- Regularly review and analyse key metrics in operations to identify root causes and formulate solutions to improve performance
- Managing customer, branch, driver, and courier feedback into continuous performance improvement processes
Attributes required:
- Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
- Ability to identify areas of improvement in current processes
- Ability to use logic and common sense to arrive at conclusions
- Passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high quality, innovative, clean solutions
- Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Must have exceptional communication skills to help deliver insights to diverse stakeholders
- Detail oriented, outcome and process focused
- Willingness to learn and personal desire to keep up to date with technology and process
- Comfortable with change and excellent team player
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, BCom Computer Science or similar degree & 3+ years experience in a Data, Engineering role within a fast-paced, product-led, and growth-focused organisation, playing a key role in data gathering, data analysis and helping the team make data based decisions OR
- Relevant Higher Certificate & 6 Years relevant experience n a Data, Engineering role within a fast-paced, product-led, and growth-focused organisation, playing a key role in data gathering, data analysis and helping the team make data based decisions
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL, Google BigQuery, AWS, Google Data Studio, and Python
- Automation - Cron Scheduling (Custom or 3rd party software scheduling)
- High level of proficiency with MS Office packages with proven advanced proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets, Docs & Slides
- Experience with large datasets and optimisation on digital platforms
- Retail or e-commerce and Supply Chain industry experience beneficial
The Environment:
- com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who
- is forthright but respectful
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
- thinks like an owner of the business.
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!
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Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
